Published Articles & Media
A Promising Alternative to Subsidized Lunch Receipt as a Measure of Student Poverty
Some states are putting in place linked data systems that enable them to identify students who are economically disadvantaged regardless of whether their families fill out a form.
40 Years After the Bakke Decision, What’s the Future of Affirmative Action in College Admissions?
Colleges need to be ready for a world in which considering race in college admissions is no longer legal.
What Can NAEP Tell Us About How Much U.S. Children Are Learning?
This report presents new analyses of state-average NAEP data that attempt to address the limitation of changing samples of students by following cohorts of students from 4th grade in a given year to 8th grade four years later.
A Better Way to Compare State Performance on NAEP
Demographically-adjusted data provide important insights into differences in state-level school performance.
Incremental Steps Toward Bold Student Loan Reforms
Congress can take significant steps in the next Higher Education Act toward designing a system that will better serve both borrowers and taxpayers and generate evidence to support bolder policymaking in the future.
Simplifying Grants for College Students: Who Wins and Who Loses?
Making federal student aid programs simpler and easier for students to navigate is a key goal of efforts to reauthorize the Higher Education Act .
What Have We Learned From Three Studies of Private School Choice?
Understanding the effect of private school choice on real-world success beyond test scores requires data on outcomes like college enrollment and graduation, and thanks to three recent Urban Institute studies, we know more about this than we did a year ago.
Are Low-Quality Private Schools on the Rise in Florida?
A new study finds that participation in the state's tax credit scholarship program has not shifted toward schools with weaker track records of improving student outcomes.
Should Congress Take a Page from the Gainful Employment Playbook?
Instead of targeting institutions of higher education, the government should consider targeting individual programs.
How Progressive is School Funding in the United States?
The fact that overall funding progressivity remains low despite two decades of reforms suggests a troubling lack of progress on equitable funding of public schools.
