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Press release for Land of Opportunity? Immigrant Newcomers in Massachusetts High Schools

Annenberg Institute’s EdExchange Marks One Year of the EdWorkingPapers Policy & Practice Series

Alejandro Contreras

Brown Education Department Announces Faculty Promotions

Brown News covers the Student Mental Health Network, an Annenberg initiative working with 11 Rhode Island districts on screening, school-based supports, and connecting students to care.

New immigrant student enrollment plunges 20 percent in Mass. high schools, report says

Saloni Gupta

John Fallon

Hannah Goldstein

Interviews with Rhode Island educator preparation providers and Providence Public Schools HR identify what stands in the way of stronger partnerships — and what would make student teaching placements work better for both sides.

Alex Bolves

The Race and Education Research Initiative at the Annenberg Institute provides a space to rethink how we interrogate race and education, and generates rigorous scholarship on the relationship among race, educational policy, and organizational practices. Through community engagement research and innovative, practice-based efforts, this initiative studies racial inequity in education and provides research-based approaches to expanding educational opportunity.

This article examines the debate over raising Massachusetts’ MCAS graduation requirements and highlights research from Annenberg Institute on how MCAS performance relates to students’ long-term college and career outcomes.

A look at Massachusetts’ proposed new high school graduation requirements, including state assessments, MassCore coursework, capstone projects, and opportunities to develop financial, digital, and career-readiness skills.

An examination of how MCAS performance relates to college completion and later earnings, and how racial and socioeconomic gaps persist even among students with similar academic achievement.

The Boston Globe highlights research from Brown University examining widening racial and socioeconomic gaps in college completion and earnings among Massachusetts public high school graduates with similar MCAS performance

The Boston Globe examines the debate over the MCAS graduation requirement, highlighting Annenberg Institute research on the relationship between students’ MCAS performance, college attendance, and future earnings.

The Boston Globe reports on Annenberg's "Rising Numbers, Unmet Needs," which documents a tripling of immigrant newcomers in Massachusetts high schools and the support gaps those students face.

WBUR reports on Annenberg's "Rising Numbers, Unmet Needs," which finds newcomer students among the fastest-growing populations in Massachusetts high schools — and highlights how widely their backgrounds and outcomes vary.

Education Week draws on Annenberg's "Rising Numbers, Unmet Needs" to ask what other states can learn from Massachusetts about supporting newcomer students in high school.