by Sidrah Baloch | Jun 12, 2025 | Educational Opportunity
School Enrollment Shifts Five Years After the Pandemic Authors: Abigail Francis, Joshua Goodman Project Summary When school doors closed in March 2020, many anticipated this disruption would have long-term effects on students. Nonetheless, a common assumption...
by Sidrah Baloch | Dec 10, 2024 | Educational Opportunity, Specialized Services
English Learners’ Access to Massachusetts Early College Programs Authors: Yasuko Kanno, Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Pierre Lucien Project Summary Early college programs (ECPs) are an increasingly common approach for promoting college enrollment and degree/credential...
by Sidrah Baloch | Dec 8, 2023 | Educational Opportunity
Who Benefits from Remote Schooling? Authors: Jesse Bruhn, Christopher Campos, Eric Chyn Project Summary At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, school districts around the country quickly transitioned to providing full- or part-time remote learning options for...
by Sidrah Baloch | Aug 2, 2023 | Educational Opportunity
The Stickiness of Pandemic-Driven Disenrollment from Public Schools Authors: Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Tareena Musaddiq, Joshua Goodman, & Kevin Stange This reflects joint work with colleagues at the Education Policy Initiative at the University of Michigan’s...
by Meagan Comb | Feb 6, 2023 | Educational Opportunity
The Effect of Retention Under Mississippi’s Test-Based Promotion Policy Authors: Kirsten Slungaard Mumma and Marcus A Winters Project Summary This study examines the impact of Mississippi’s test-based promotion policy, adopted in 2013 as part of a comprehensive...
by Meagan Comb | Dec 14, 2022 | Educational Opportunity
Politics and Children’s Books: Evidence from School Library Collections Authors: Kirsten Slungaard Mumma Project Summary This study begins by compiling a novel data set on the books in over 6,000 school libraries across the country. With this unique look inside school...
