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Oct 14, 2025

How to Provide Quality Opportunities for Young People in the Summer Months

This paper summarizes knowledge about kindergarten through grade 12 summer programs in the United States. The authors discuss the implications of summer programs for practice, policy, and funding to help communities effectively leverage summertime.
Oct 1, 2025

Improving College Access and Degree Completion

RAND researchers explore ways to make college more accessible and help students complete degrees. RAND studies solutions like stackable credentials, streamlined advising, and developmental education to help more students graduate.
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Jul 29, 2025

Lost But Not Forgotten? Tracking and Re-engaging Community College Students Lost Before the Census Date

In this webinar recording, RAND and Dallas College presenters examine the reasons that students leave their community colleges before the census date and recommend multiple strategies to retain or re-engage these students.
Research

Jul 16, 2025

Lost but Not Forgotten? Community College Efforts to Track and Reengage Students Lost Before the Census Date

The authors examine the loss of students who leave their community college before the census date and investigate the critical periods spanning application, enrollment, and census date; leakage points; and strategies to retain these students.
Research

Mar 20, 2025

Microschools as an Emerging Education Model: Implications for Research and Evaluation

The authors provide an overview of the microschooling landscape and articulate key design considerations so that future studies can be designed to support valid and trustworthy inferences about microschool impacts.
Research

Dec 19, 2024

The Path Toward Evaluating the Impacts of Education Savings Accounts on Academic Achievement Outcomes

In this report, authors outline the data available to study the academic performance of students who use K–12 Education Savings Accounts—publicly funded accounts typically established for parents who opt not to enroll their children in public schools.
Research

Dec 11, 2024

American Mathematics Educator Study: 2024 Technical Documentation and Survey Results

This technical report presents information about the sample, survey instruments, and resultant data for the 2024 American Mathematics Educator Study surveys administered to principals and teachers in spring 2024 via the American Educator Panels.
Video

Nov 13, 2024

Racial and Socioeconomic Divides in Algebra Teaching and Learning: Findings from the American Mathematics Educator Study

RAND researchers share new data on who has access to algebra in 8th and 9th grade. Discussants reflect on these findings and their implications, as well as the steps that might be taken to improve inequities in algebra teaching and learning.
Research

Nov 11, 2024

Universal Early Childhood Education and Care for Toddlers and Achievement Outcomes in Middle Childhood

We estimate the effects of expansion of universal early childhood education to all 1- and 2-year-olds in Norway on achievement tests in 5th grade. Findings suggest that wider access to early learning has the potential to reduce education inequality.
Research

Oct 2, 2024

Spillover Effects of Specialized High Schools

We find specialized high schools disproportionately enrolled white and high achieving students. They became more representative of school districts over time, and recently opened specialized schools had positive spillovers on achievement.
Research

Oct 2, 2024

Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors' Effects on Educational Attainment

This paper uses the quasi-random assignment of counselors and finds that counselors vary substantially in their effectiveness at increasing high school graduation and college attendance, selectivity, and persistence.
Research

Sep 23, 2024

The Evolution of Veteran Educational Attainment Gaps Over the Life Cycle

We investigate the life-cycle attainment of veterans relative to nonveterans and find that, over time, veterans closed large gaps in degree attainment on average and female and minority veterans exceeded the attainment of similar nonveterans.

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Lost But Not Forgotten? Tracking and Re-engaging Community College Students Lost Before the Census Date

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Microschools as an Emerging Education Model: Implications for Research and Evaluation

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American Mathematics Educator Study: 2024 Technical Documentation and Survey Results

Racial and Socioeconomic Divides in Algebra Teaching and Learning: Findings from the American Mathematics Educator Study

Universal Early Childhood Education and Care for Toddlers and Achievement Outcomes in Middle Childhood

Spillover Effects of Specialized High Schools

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Related Topics

The Challenges of Measuring How Microschools Affect Student Outcomes

Math Teachers' Efforts Can Really Add Up

Explore RAND’s Work on this Topic

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How to Provide Quality Opportunities for Young People in the Summer Months

Improving College Access and Degree Completion

Lost But Not Forgotten? Tracking and Re-engaging Community College Students Lost Before the Census Date

Lost but Not Forgotten? Community College Efforts to Track and Reengage Students Lost Before the Census Date

Microschools as an Emerging Education Model: Implications for Research and Evaluation

The Path Toward Evaluating the Impacts of Education Savings Accounts on Academic Achievement Outcomes

American Mathematics Educator Study: 2024 Technical Documentation and Survey Results

Racial and Socioeconomic Divides in Algebra Teaching and Learning: Findings from the American Mathematics Educator Study

Universal Early Childhood Education and Care for Toddlers and Achievement Outcomes in Middle Childhood

Spillover Effects of Specialized High Schools

Beyond Teachers: Estimating Individual School Counselors' Effects on Educational Attainment

The Evolution of Veteran Educational Attainment Gaps Over the Life Cycle

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