Preparing the Future Workforce: Early Care and Education Participation among...
Children of immigrants will make up a critical share of our nation’s future workforce, but they are less likely than other children to participate in early education programs known to support school...
View ArticleReshaping Parent PLUS Loans: Recommendations for Reforming the Parent PLUS...
The Parent PLUS loan program, introduced during the 1980 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, was designed to help high-asset families who needed liquidity to cover their expected family...
View ArticleRobust and Equitable Measures to Identify Quality Schools
Robust and Equitable Measures to Identify Quality Schools (REMIQS) is a new initiative that seeks to build a comprehensive definition of high-quality nonselective public high schools serving student...
View ArticleSchool Funding in New York State: Does the Current Formula Ensure Access for...
In this testimony before the New York Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Kim Rueben examines New York State’s education funding formula and how limits in state aid...
View ArticleThe Role of College and University Endowments
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 imposed a new tax on investment income for some private nonprofit colleges and universities with large endowments. This move was met with strong objections from the...
View ArticleEndowments and Federal Tax Policy
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 imposed a new tax on investment income for some private nonprofit colleges and universities with large endowments. This move was met with strong objections from the...
View ArticleThe Effects of Means-Tested Private School Choice Programs on College...
Private school choice programs are rapidly gaining traction, with nearly 450,000 student participants in 2019—an increase of 300,000 students in just 15 years. This report evaluates how well some of...
View ArticleCharter School Effects on School Segregation
In the first nationally comprehensive examination of charter school effects on school system segregation, we demonstrate that growth in charter school enrollment increases the segregation of black,...
View ArticleComplex by Design: Reforming Public Service Loan Forgiveness
Matthew Chingos provided testimony for the United States House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor’s Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Investment during a hearing titled...
View ArticleWhen Is a School Segregated? Making Sense of Segregation 65 Years after Brown...
Many students are enrolled in segregated school systems with unequal access to resources. In this report, we present a measure that can help policymakers identify the schools in their system that are...
View ArticleHow Restricting Categorical Eligibility for SNAP Affects Access to Free...
Proposed changes to broad-based categorical eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will affect the National School Lunch Program, which uses SNAP to determine free lunch...
View ArticleMeasuring Student Poverty
How we count matters. For decades, the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) has provided students free or reduced-price meals while equipping school administrators with data on students’ socioeconomic...
View ArticleWhen Student Loans Linger
Conversations about the burden of student loan debt have become increasingly common. But for some Americans, the issue is not new. More than 1.5 million borrowers who first took out loans before 2000...
View ArticleOKFutures Needs Assessment
The importance of quality early childhood care and education (ECCE) is increasingly visible across the country. ECCE affects children’s growth and development, families’ ability to work, and the future...
View ArticleIdentifying High-Performing Schools for Historically Underserved Students
This report describes the results of the model refining phase of the Robust and Equitable Measures to Inspire Quality Schools (REMIQS) project. The project seeks to inspire high schools to generate...
View ArticleComparing Colleges' Graduation Rates
Policymakers are increasingly using data to understand how well their colleges and universities serve students by examining such outcomes as graduation rates. In this report, we harness longitudinal...
View ArticleMeasuring College Performance: Lessons for Policymakers
Higher education data are now more widely available than ever before. In addition to institution- and program-level data, nearly every state has, or is in the process of developing, a student-level...
View ArticleUnderstanding Equity Gaps in College Graduation
Policies and practices throughout the educational pipeline harm the educational attainment of black and Hispanic Americans. Using administrative data from Virginia and Connecticut colleges, we first...
View ArticleWhich Dollars Get Measured? Assessing Earnings Metrics Using Data from...
Policymakers and researchers measure earnings after enrolling in higher education. Using Connecticut data, we show that the definition of this earnings metric matters. The data we use, the period we...
View ArticleMeasuring Program-Level Completion Rates
A student’s major can have a large effect on long-run earnings, and program-level earnings data are best paired with information about a student’s likelihood of success in a given major. Program-level...
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