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June 12, 2023

Lag Time: How Policy Compliance Failures Delay Special Education Support for Boston-Area Children

In our latest report, we document frequent compliance failures by school districts that delay children's access to special education services—sometimes for months.

March 11, 2021

What Parents Need to Know About Tests

We partnered with one of the nation’s leading education research organizations, CALDER, to examine the test results and performance histories of more than three million students in Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Washington state, going back more than a decade. We wanted to know what these students’ test scores could tell us about their educational experiences—and most importantly, their real-life outcomes. Here's what we learned.

July 27, 2020

Using Test Results to Help Families Forecast Long-Term Student Outcomes

Each year, millions of American families receive their children's results from federally-mandated tests. What if we used the data to tell them something about where their kids are going, not just where they've been?

December 11, 2019

The Honors Packet Experiment: Can Celebrating High-Achieving Students Encourage Future Success?

Every year, high-achieving students—especially students of color and those from low-income families—lose ground in school, in spite of their potential and talent. What if there was a simple way to disrupt this decline? We designed an experiment to test one possible strategy.

April 16, 2018

Lost in the Crowd

Meet DeAnthony, Amalia, David, Kendra and Joy—five talented students from low-income communities who are getting lost in the crowd.