Aug 20, 2025
Do Publicly Funded Early Childhood Programs Work? Click here to access the article Do Publicly Funded Early Childhood Programs Work? Use of Integrated Administrative Data in Baltimore City By Sooyeon Byun, Xiangyu Zhao, Briana Bostic, and Lieny Jeon Despite the...
May 14, 2025
Transit Trade-Offs Click here for a link to the article Transit Trade-Offs: Public Transportation Difficulty, Schedule Variation, and School Preferences By Julia Burdick-Will and Marc L. Stein How does the relative ease or difficulty of public transportation affect...
Apr 3, 2019
Previous work around school quality has typically identified schools that are “beating the odds.” Such an approach finds “outlier schools” by analyzing student outcomes, and studies these schools to determine what they appear to be doing well. However, in...
Feb 8, 2018
In BERC’s work with City Schools, researcher Rachel E. Durham and practitioner Rachel Pfeifer show the power of a Research Practice Partnership through a pair of blogs that discuss work to promote youth success. Read more from the researcher perspective and...
Jan 23, 2018
As community schools spread across the country, community school staff need effective approaches to engaging families and community-based partners. Such principles must be broadly applicable, given community schools’ mandate to adapt to different local contexts. Based...
Aug 14, 2017
BERC wrote about their Improvement Science. on EdWeek. One from the researchers perspective, and from the practitioner’s perspective.
