Publications

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.

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.

An Annenberg study of Massachusetts' science testing graduation requirement, finding that performance improved across subgroups even as failure rates grew more unequal — with English learners heavily overrepresented among those who never passed.

A synthesis of more than 15 years of Annenberg research on educational opportunity and state testing in Massachusetts, offered as evidence for the debate over the MCAS graduation requirement.

Massachusetts is widely lauded as a national model for K-12 education, given its consistently high levels of academic achievement and educational attainments. In our 2020 report, Lifting All Boats?, we detailed the substantial progress the state’s educational system has made since the Education Reform Act of 1993, as well as the ways in which focusing on average improvements concealed substantial inequalities throughout the system, with a particular focus on disparities by family income.

Produced through Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts, this study follows ten cohorts of community college entrants to assess how transfer policies affected who moves to four-year institutions and who earns degrees.

An Annenberg study finding that barely passing the Massachusetts math exit exam changes outcomes — but at different points in the educational pipeline for low-income and higher-income students.

An Annenberg brief documenting how the pandemic reversed a decade of gains in Massachusetts college-going, with the class of 2020 enrolling at the same rate as the class of 2005.