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Reports: Education

A Restorative Approach to Discipline Shows Promise in Reducing Suspensions and Arrests
Indiana University, February 2025, 8 pp.
Examines research showing that exclusionary discipline in schools leads to lower educational attainment and a higher likelihood of justice system involvement among students, while restorative justice approaches decrease misconduct and improve student outcomes. It also shows that black and Hispanic students are disproportionately represented in school suspensions. more info >

State of Black America
National Urban League, June 2024
Annual report from the National Urban League. The most recent report focuses on the impact of the 1964 Civil Rights, and includes measures related income, education, health, civic engagement, housing, transportation, and public safety for Hispanic, Black, and White populations. Includes metropolitan area rankings of unemployment and income equality. more info >

Responding, Reimagining, Realizing Out-of-School Time Coordination in a New Era
Wallace Foundation, June 2024, 72 pp.
This report examines how OST organizations address the heightened needs of children and their families during the pandemic to ensure continuity of services and discusses how they could continue this expanded role related to adaptation, advocacy, partnerships, and equity. more info >

The Condition of Education 2024
National Center for Education Statistics, May 2024, 46 pp.
Annual report that summarizes trends in education. Indicators include educational attainment, earnings and unemployment rates by educational attainment, families living in poverty, early childhood education participation, English language learners, children and youth with disabilities, and postsecondary enrollment. more info >

Difficulty Hiring Teachers in Rural Areas
National Center for Education Statistics, May 2024, 5 pp.
In some teaching fields, a higher percentage of schools in rural areas found it difficult or not possible to fill teaching vacancies in 2020-21. Using the National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), this report examines the percentages of public and private schools that found it very difficult to fill or were not able to fill open teaching positions. more info >

The Decisive Decade: Understanding the Trajectories of 14- to 24-year-olds
Brookings Institution, April 2024
This report provides a snapshot of how young adults age 14-24 are faring in regard to health, family, education, and work outcomes, highlighting the need for continued investment in resources that can enable or impede their progress. It identifies key indicators of success and areas of disparities to inform policy efforts aimed at improve young adults' opportunities. more info >

Race for Results: Building a Pathway to Opportunity for All Children
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, January 2024, 51 pp.
This report uses the Race for Results Index, a collection of data presented by racial and ethnic groups and by state, to examine progress and disparities related to child and youth wellbeing. Indicators address early childhood, academic achievement, teen parenting, higher education, and family characteristics. more info >

The State of America's Children
Children's Defense Fund, December 2023, 86 pp.
A compilation of national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood development, education, nutrition and housing. Report is compiled annually. more info >

Undermeasuring: College and Career Readiness Indicators May Not Reflect College and Career Outcomes
Alliance for Excellent Education, February 2023, 4 pp.
This report compares statewide college and career readiness rates with college enrollment and college remediation rates for a cohort of high school students for all 50 states and Washington, DC. This comparison shed light on racial disparities in readiness and enrollment rates, and gaps between post-secondary readiness and outcomes, some of which are related to how readiness is measured. more info >

Big Ideas for Children
First Focus, December 2022, 191 pp.
Part of a series calling upon policy thinkers to provide fresh proposals designed to advance federal policy and improve the health, safety, and well-being of children. more info >

Race in the Heartland: Equity, Opportunity, and Public Policy in the Midwest
Iowa Policy Project, Policy Matters Ohio, October 2019, 37 pp.
Examines racial disparities in economic opportunity and economic outcomes in the Midwest, and proposes a range of policy solutions. more info >

Are Achievement Gaps Related to Discipline Gaps? Evidence From National Data
The Center for Civil Rights Remedies, The Civil Rights Project, October 2019, 18 pp.
This study using national data finds evidence that districts with larger racial discipline gaps have larger racial achievement gaps, demonstrating that racial disparities in school discipline and academic achievement gaps are closely linked. more info >

Family Disadvantage and the Gender Gap in Behavioral and Educational Outcomes
Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, September 2017, 71 pp.
A look at the relationship between family environment, gender, and race and impacts on educational achievement and behavior outcomes. more info >

Mass Incarceration and Children’s Outcomes: Criminal Justice Policy is Education Policy
Economic Policy Institute, December 2016
As many as one in ten African American students has an incarcerated parent. This report reviews studies from many disciplines showing that parental incarceration leads to an array of cognitive and noncognitive outcomes known to affect children's performance in school, and suggests that the American criminal justice system contributes to the racial achievement gap. more info >

Educational Equity: What Does it Mean? How Do We Know When We Reach It?
Center for Public Education, January 2016, 10 pp.
This report provides a brief overview of educational equity and reviews data on students served by public schools. It then describes the areas in an equity agenda that research shows will have the greatest impact on student outcomes: funding, curriculum, teachers and discipline policies as a starting point for school system and community conversations. more info >

Discretion and Disproportionality: Explaining the Underrepresentation of High-Achieving Students of Color in Gifted Programs
American Educational Research Association, January 2016, 25 pp.
Students of color are underrepresented in gifted programs relative to White students, but the reasons for this underrepresentation are poorly understood. This report investigate the predictors of gifted assignment using nationally representative, longitudinal data on elementary students. more info >

Full-day Kindergarten Helps Close the Achievement Gaps
National Education Association, July 2015, 4 pp.
Offers support for full-day kindergarten as a way to increase learning and close the achievement gap. more info >

Course, Counselor, and Teacher Gaps: Addressing the College Readiness Challenge in High-Poverty High Schools
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP), June 2015, 17 pp.
This report analyzes the nation's 100 largest school districts and identifies major gaps in school resources and their impact on youth. more info >

Web sites

diversitydatakids.org
Presents measures of child wellbeing and policy analysis for states, counties, large cities, and metropolitan areas. more info >