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Dee, Thomas S. – Urban Institute, 2023
Over the first two school years under the COVID-19 pandemic, K-12 enrollment in public schools decreased dramatically--with losses concentrated among the youngest students--and the pandemic has had historically unprecedented effects on available learning opportunities. Little is known about where these students went and what learning environments…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Declining Enrollment, COVID-19
Monarrez, Tomas; Schonholzer, David; Chien, Carina; Rainer, Macy – Urban Institute, 2021
School segregation is one of the most enduring inequities in US public education, reinforcing racial and ethnic gaps in academic and socioeconomic outcomes. School boundaries, whether between districts or between schools within a district, often help perpetuate school segregation in otherwise racially and ethnically diverse cities and…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, School Segregation, Equal Education, Attendance Patterns
Bryan J. Cook – Urban Institute, 2023
There is an abundance of research on the college admissions process and the practices selective schools employ to evaluate and select students. Most findings are complex, nuanced, or conflicting. Less than a month after the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled in "Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard" and "Students…
Descriptors: College Admission, Higher Education, Affirmative Action, Access to Education
Justin B. Doromal; Erica Greenberg; Elli Nikolopoulos; Eve Mefferd; Heather Sandstrom; Rachel Lamb; Victoria Nelson; Timothy Triplett – Urban Institute, 2024
Early childhood educators play essential roles in providing stable and high-quality child care for young children and supporting their development and growth. As is also true nationwide, historically low wages in the District of Columbia have led to challenges in compensating and retaining qualified early childhood educators, and in turn, building…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance
Blagg, Kristin; Lafortune, Julien; Monarrez, Tomás – Urban Institute, 2022
Understanding how school districts allocate resources across students and schools is important for designing efficacious and equitable school finance policies. Newly released school-level spending data allow for new insights about the level of spending a student experiences at her school and how well spending corresponds with student…
Descriptors: Expenditures, Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, School Demography
Megan Gallagher; Rachel Lamb – Urban Institute, 2023
School desegregation and equitable access to educational opportunity takes alignment in the housing and education sectors. Racist housing policies and practices have systematically limited access to opportunity for generations of people of color, profoundly affecting their wealth, and perpetuating racial disparities in opportunity and well-being…
Descriptors: Housing, Racial Segregation, Neighborhood Integration, Neighborhoods