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A number of studies funded by our foundation explore research topics beyond our primary focus areas. While these studies fall outside our usual scope, we believe their findings provide meaningful insight into key challenges and opportunities facing the Pre-K-12 education sector today.
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Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges
This is a QED study that leverages multiple sources of data to understand inequities in admission to highly selective colleges and universities by family income.
Completed
Standardized Test Scores and Academic Performance at Ivy-Plus Colleges
This is a descriptive study analyzing admissions and transcript records for students at multiple Ivy-Plus colleges to study the relationship between standardized (SAT/ACT) test scores, high school GPA, and first-year college grades.
Completed
Nebraska Spotlight: Key Findings That Highlight Connections Among Early Childhood Development, Families and Communities
This is a survey of a representative sample of 2,500 Nebraska families with young children ages birth to five years. The report focuses on children’s development and family characteristics to examine strengths and disparities by various subgroups of families (e.g., urban versus rural). Illustrative topics include families’ economic and food security, neighborhood characteristics, parenting demands, home learning environments, and parental mental health. The survey took place online between July 2022 to January 2023.
Completed
Evaluating the Impact of Innovative Schools
This is a landscape scan conducted by The Canopy Project, which used qualitative data and review of internal and external quantitative data on school performance to achieve three aims.
Completed
Social Capital I: Measurement and Associations with Economic Mobility
This is a correlational study that examines the relations between the degree of interconnectedness of friend groups, measures of civic engagement (e.g., volunteering), and socioeconomic status (SES, as defined by a machine learning algorithm-generated index comprised of, for example, average income in an individual’s neighborhood and level of educational attainment).
Completed
COVID-19 Relief Bolstered U.S. Child Care Programs in Crisis
This study by the Bipartisan Policy Center reports on an 11-state survey of a random selection of representatives from approximately 1,100 child care centers and 1,200 family child care homes regarding respondents’ experiences with business closures, enrollment, revenue, staffing, and other factors related to the availability of U.S. Congressional relief packages during the COVID-19 pandemic: The CARES Act of March 2020, the CRRSA Act of December 2020, and the ARP Act of March 2021.
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