Harvard's National Bureau of Economic Research takes a look at the Moving to Opportunity program and its impacts on children's long-term outcomes using administrative data from tax returns.
Read MoreThis research, which involved children enrolled in the Chicago public school system, was published in the APA journal Developmental Psychology®. It shows that children who experienced fewer school transitions over a five-year period demonstrated greater cognitive skills and higher math achievement in early elementary school, relative to their counterparts who changed schools frequently.
Read MoreThis Harvard School of Education study reviews evidence from six recent studies, which collectively suggest that teachers who leave high-poverty schools are not fleeing their students, but rather the poor working conditions that make it difficult for them to teach and their students to learn.
Read MoreUsing an index of 16 indicators, this report ranks states on overall child well-being and in economic well-being, education, health and family and community.
Read MoreRacial segregation in Minneapolis and St. Paul is largely the result of charter schools and of policies that move affordable housing out of white suburbs and into segregated urban neighborhoods and first-tier suburbs, according to the University of Minnesota's Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity.
Read MoreThis 2014 white paper by the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities examines how housing location can make a difference in economic and educational opportunity for children.
Read MoreThis Minnesota Institute of Race and Poverty report reveals the extent of school segregation in the Twin Cities region and describes segregation’s harms to children and the region.
Read MoreThis Urban Institute research brief takes a look at the effects childhood poverty has on individuals when they reach adulthood.
Read MoreThis Southern Education Foundation 2015 research report collects state-by-state data from the National Center for Education Statistics to track student poverty through eligibility for free and reduced-price lunches.
Read MoreThe Denver Child Study explores the extent to which multiple dimensions of neighborhood context affect the physical and behavioral health, exposure to violence, risky behaviors, education, youth and young adult labor market outcomes, and marriage and childbearing of Latino and African-American children and youth from low-income families.
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