Research & Publications

 

College Access in Baltimore

College Access in Baltimore: A Decade of College-Going Among City Schools GraduatesCollege Access in Baltimore: A Decade of College-Going Among City Schools GraduatesBy Rachel E. Durham, Zyrashae Smith-Onyewu, Curt Cronister, Nathaniel dewey and marc l. steinThis...

Kindergarten Success Report

Kindergarten Success Fact BookKindergarten Success Fact Book: Baltimore City Schools Kindergarten Classess of 2014-15 to 2019-20By Lieny Jeon, Nathaniel dewey, ziangyu zhao, briana bostic and marc l. steinThis report provides an overview of kindergarten readiness of...

Baltimore City’s Young Children: Prenatal to Five Experiences

Baltimore City's Young Children: Prenatal to Five ExperiencesFebruary 2022Baltimore City's Young Children: Prenatal to Five Experiences By Lieny Jeon, Natalie Schock, Curt Cronister, Xiangyu Zhao, Briana Bostic, Jun Wang, Margo CandelariaBaltimore Education Research...

Baltimore College Fact Book

Baltimore College Fact Book A detailed update through the class of 2018 as part of a series of reports about Baltimore City Public Schools graduates' transistion to college.June 2020Baltimore College Fact Book: Data Digest of College Access OutcomesBy Rachel E....

Thinking About School Quality

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...

Thinking about Quality Schools

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,...

OrchKids and Student Outcomes

Baltimore OrchKids: An Examination of Student Outcomes describes an analysis exploring the relationship between participation in OrchKids' out-of-school-time programming and several student measures. Using a quasi-experimental design, the research examined...

Early Childhood Data Collaborative

The Baltimore Early Childhood  Data Collaborative (ECDC), formerly Early Education Data Collaborative (EEDC),  began after the release of BERC’s report, Early Elementary Performance and Attendance in Baltimore City Schools’ Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten in March...

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