Publications & Data

2026

• October 27, 2026

  Journal Articles

  Sustaining AI-Enabled Student Support: A Four-Year Implementation and Impact Study

  A four-year study of an AI text-messaging chatbot at a large urban public university, examining what makes such systems sustainable and where their effects on students actually show up.

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• October 01, 2026

  Briefs

  Evidence-Based Practices for Teaching About Planetary Health and Environmental Challenges

  Teaching about climate and planetary health is hard. This brief distills the evidence into five classroom practices — local relevance, solutions, structured dialogue, outdoor learning, sustained teacher support — plus approaches to avoid.

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• September 28, 2026

  Reports

  Staying on Track

  As Rhode Island phases in a tougher math graduation requirement, this brief examines how districts are shifting Algebra 1 to 8th grade — and what's standing in the way.

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• September 19, 2026

  Journal Articles

  Linking Institutions and Neighborhoods for Knowledge in Medicine (LINK-Med): A Unifying Framework in Medical Education Pathway Program Development

  A proposed four-phase framework for building medical education pathway programs through partnerships among medical schools, hospitals, and local high schools, applied to the Clinical Mentorship Program in Woonsocket.

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• September 01, 2026

  Working Papers

  Immigration Enforcement Actions and Empty Desks: Persistent and Acute Attendance Effects

  A difference-in-differences study finding that heightened federal immigration enforcement after January 2025 raised daily absence rates among foreign-born students by roughly a third, with effects largest in upper grades.

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• August 19, 2026

  Reports

  Land of Opportunity?

  A follow-up to "Rising Numbers, Unmet Needs," this report examines how Massachusetts districts serve newcomer students — English learners in their first year of U.S. schooling — and where the path to graduation breaks down.

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• August 13, 2026

  Journal Articles

  Equity in Context: Institutional Agency in Targeting Student Supports in Massachusetts Community Colleges

  Drawing on 35 interviews across Massachusetts' 15 community colleges, this study finds that data availability — as much as institutional priorities — shaped which students each college targeted under the SUCCESS initiative.

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• August 11, 2026

  Journal Articles

  U.S. Schools’ Proximity to Environmental Hazard Sites: A National Analysis

  We conduct a nationwide assessment of U.S. PreK-12 public and private schools’ proximity to known environmental hazard sites tracked by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Superfund sites, Brownfields, and Toxics Release Inventory facilities.

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• July 01, 2026

  Working Papers

  Examining the Relationship Between Randomization Strategies and Contamination in Higher Education Interventions

  A methods paper comparing randomization strategies in college field experiments, finding that individual-level assignment holds up better against contamination than expected — with practical guidance for balancing power and risk.

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• June 01, 2026

  Journal Articles

  Let’s Chat: Leveraging Chatbot Outreach for Improved Course Performance

  A pre-registered experiment finding that AI chatbot outreach in large undergraduate courses raised students' final grades and increased their use of academic supports like tutoring.

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• May 19, 2026

  Journal Articles

  How Educational Leaders Sustain Equity Work in a Politically Hostile Environment

  A study of eight school-university partnerships finding that leaders sustained equity work under anti-DEI pressure by reframing their language, decoupling it from the practices it described.

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• May 12, 2026

  Journal Articles

  What the AI era doctor should know: a scoping review of proposed artificial intelligence competencies for medical education

  A scoping review of 54 studies from 22 countries, synthesizing proposed AI competencies for undergraduate medical education into a taxonomy of seven domains, 37 competencies, and 170 learning objectives.

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• May 04, 2026

  Journal Articles

  The Clinical Mentorship Program: a mixed-methods evaluation of a community-based medical education pathway program for high school students

  An evaluation of a year-long program pairing Woonsocket High School students with Brown medical students and resident physicians, finding gains in college motivation, medical knowledge, and comfort with physicians.

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• March 10, 2026

  Journal Articles

  Understanding High Schools’ Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes

  An Annenberg study using five cohorts of Massachusetts ninth graders to estimate how individual high schools shape students' college outcomes and adult earnings, focusing on students from low-income families.

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• January 09, 2026

  Reports

  Practical Takeaways from the Rhode Island Professional Learning Network

  In the 2024-2025 school year, Annenberg launched the Professional Learning (PL) Network in RI, a community of practice with six Rhode Island school districts focused on curriculum-based professional learning (CBPL).

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