WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested...

Congressional Republicans are reportedly considering spending cuts to balance the cost of extending the tax cuts they enacted in 2017.

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Earlier today, the federal government released the 2024 scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

As the Trump transition team prepares for the incoming administration, Urban experts offer several recommendations where our work may be relevant to the new administration’s policy goals.

The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted student learning and the delivery of public education. Across the United States, most public K–12 schools saw widespread enrollment declines during the 2020–21...

To inform policies that measure earnings after students complete a credential, I examine average earnings trajectories for 25 years after graduation for associate’s, bachelor’s, master’s, and professi...

In 2013, the California state legislature took steps to narrow disparities in exclusionary discipline between student groups, especially for students with disabilities and students of color.

The Student Upward Mobility Initiative’s first funded projects span three drivers of economic mobility: academic skills, career preparation, and nonacademic factors.

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Whether it is a change to policy or the implementation of a new program, suspension reforms must balance the need to reduce suspensions’ concentrated negative impacts on students with the need to ensu...

Declines in student loan borrowing are not equal across student cohorts, with Black students, those attending for-profits, and those earning certificates seeing increases in debt burdens over the past...

To understand whether college programs place their graduates on better financial footing, we created an accountability metric that estimates the time it takes for college students to recoup program co...

To better understand how borrowers from different degree programs and higher education institutions will benefit from the new SAVE plan, this report uses College Scorecard data to examine loan repayme...

Higher education institutions aim to improve students’ social mobility, but differences in persistence and graduation rates can present economic challenges for students and institutions.

The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) is the State Education Agency for the District of Columbia charged with raising the quality of education for all DC residents. OSSE is focuse...

This report represents key takeaways from the discussion and highlights some of the complexities, nuances, and conflicts in the existing research around college admissions and diversity.