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Matt Chingos

@chingos.bsky.social
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Education policy at Urban Institute.

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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This morning, Chair Cassidy released a Request for Information on how to increase college cost and value transparency for students and families. Please share with your networks and consider submitting a response by the October 24 deadline: www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom...
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Chair Cassidy Requests Information on Improving Transparency in Higher Education, Lowering Costs for Students | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, requested...
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Starting on Monday, I will be on leave from Urban for a year to serve as a fellow with the Senate HELP committee (majority staff). I don't expect to post much on here. To keep up with Urban's education work, follow @maggiereeves1.bsky.social & @kblagg.bsky.social!
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Maggie Reeves @maggiereeves1.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It was incredibly energizing to get the Student Upward Mobility Initiative’s first cohort + friends together in DC! Follow along as we learn from researchers, field leaders, and practitioners on our blog www.tfaforms.com/4644066/?tfa...
Conference room full of people
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Read the full analysis and get data by state and congressional district here: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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How Many Students Would Lose Access to Free Meals under House Republicans’ Proposed Changes to the Community Eligibility Provision?
Congressional Republicans are reportedly considering spending cuts to balance the cost of extending the tax cuts they enacted in 2017.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
More than 70% of ALL students in Mississippi and West Virginia would lose CEP in their schools under this proposal.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Increasing the identified student percentage (ISP) threshold from 25% to 60% would take CEP away from at least 21,000 schools serving 11.4 million students. An additional 18,000+ non-CEP schools (with 9.4 million students) would lose the ability to sign up for the program.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
House Republicans are reportedly considering changes to which schools are eligible to provide free meals to all students through the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP). Urban's Emily Gutierrez runs the numbers on how many students and schools would lose CEP: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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How Many Students Would Lose Access to Free Meals under House Republicans’ Proposed Changes to the Community Eligibility Provision?
Congressional Republicans are reportedly considering spending cuts to balance the cost of extending the tax cuts they enacted in 2017.
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Erica Greenberg @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
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Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
On further reflection, I think the adjustment does a reasonably good job of getting roughly the right low-income number at the state level. So maybe downgrade the grain of salt for Oregon's adjusted score to medium-sized!
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
See the discussion in the report linked here: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2022 Nation’s Report Card
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
A quick word of caution on Oregon -- I would take their numbers with a big grain of salt (moreso than any other state) because the free lunch data are very wonky. They reported 99% eligible in 2022, which we tried to fix via imputation but may have went too far the other way.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
In 2022, the Florida legislature expanded college tuition exemptions for homeless students and former foster youth. Did these policies reach the intended beneficiaries? Carrie Henderson and Katie Grissom look at newly available data in a recent Learning Curve essay: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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The Role of State Policy in Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness and Former Foster Youth in Higher Education
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
How did your state's students score on the 2024 NAEP compared to demographically similar students nationwide? Get the data here: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress
Earlier today, the federal government released the 2024 scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Massachusetts has long done well on our adjusted rankings, but Louisiana and Mississippi were nowhere near the top 10 years ago. Historical data and rankings (through 2019) are available here: apps.urban.org/features/naep/
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America's Gradebook
How does your state stack up?
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
In 2024, the highest adjusted NAEP scores on three out of the four NAEP tests were achieved by Mississippi's students. Three states ranked in the top 5 on all four tests: Mississippi, Louisiana, and Massachusetts.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
To facilitate better comparisons, my team at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social publishes adjusted scores that capture how well students in each state score on the NAEP compared with demographically similar students around the country.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Comparing states’ NAEP scores is misleading for many purposes because states serve very different student populations (e.g., more than 20 percent of children live in poverty in Alabama and Mississippi, compared with less than 10 percent in New Hampshire and Vermont).
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Earlier this week, the federal government released the 2024 NAEP scores, which are the only nationally comparable measure of student achievement that is reported for every state on a regular basis.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
How does your state really stack up on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)? www.urban.org/research/pub...
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States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress
Earlier today, the federal government released the 2024 scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The free lunch data are really funky. See more here: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2022 Nation’s Report Card
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Demographically adjusted 2024 NAEP scores, hot off the presses! www.urban.org/research/pub...
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States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
@kblagg.bsky.social was the one burning the midnight oil to get these calculations done ASAP!
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2024 coming later this morning!
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The full memo includes evidence-based recommendations from our @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues on apprenticeships, housing, TANF, AI, and more: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Opportunities for the New Administration to Improve Americans’ Well-Being
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.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We also recommend that @usedgov.bsky.social write regulations that stop wasting taxpayer dollars trying to collect old "zombie debts." This can be done in a much more targeted and responsible way than what the Biden admin attempted.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
We recommend that @usedgov.bsky.social finally implement the FUTURE Act (signed by President Trump in 2019) so that students who fall behind on their loan payments can be automatically enrolled in income-driven repayment.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Urban's transition memo to the Trump Administration includes recommendations from Sandy Baum, Jason Delisle, & me on fixing student loan repayment: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Opportunities for the New Administration to Improve Americans’ Well-Being
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.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The call you should most fear is being asked to serve as president-elect.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The latest Learning Curve essay looks at how DC's prek program for 3-year-olds mitigated school enrollment declines during the pandemic. Read more from @anikaalam.bsky.social @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social & colleagues: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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How Public PK3 Mitigated School Enrollment Declines during the Pandemic
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...
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Since I throw shade when the government posts years-old education data, have to give props to NCES for getting the 2023-24 CCD posted in 2024:
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Or just wait a few months for the Education Data Portal to take care of it for you!
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Good to know, I'll pass along this feedback to our web team.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The adjustment is not perfect, especially due to how free lunch was measured in some states in 2022 (e.g., Oregon reported 99% of students as eligible). But it's closer to an apples-to-apples comparison across states than just eyeballing the raw scores. Stay tuned in January for 2024 scores!
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Some states had stable *relative* performance (nearly all declined in absolute terms) since 2019, but some saw significant swings.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The top-ranking states across the four tests are Massachusetts, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas. The lowest ranking states were Alaska, Maine, Delaware, Oregon, and West Virginia.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Since 2015, my colleagues and I have calculated NAEP scores that adjust for student demographics, including gender, age, race or ethnicity, receipt of free/reduced lunch, special education status, and English language learner status. This is the first look at adjusted performance post-COVID.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2022 just dropped. How did your state do? www.urban.org/research/pub...
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States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2022 Nation’s Report Card
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
And here is the official @urbaninstitute.bsky.social starter pack! go.bsky.app/Cb5Cw8y
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Follow my @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues! bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Maggie Reeves @maggiereeves1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
GA passed a $6,500/student/year voucher this year for tuition, tutoring, some transportation, or occupational, speech, behavioral, or physical therapy. Up to 1% of the state education formula (QBE) can be spent. Newly issued program rules got me interested but I’m left with more ?s.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social brief from Jason Cohn looks at how college graduates' earnings evolve over time and what that means for accountability policy: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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How Do College Graduates’ Earnings Change over Time?
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...
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
What happened after California banned suspensions for willful defiance in grades K-3? Short answer: suspensions didn't decline faster than they already had been, and large disparities by race/SES/IEP remained. Longer answer: read the newest Learning Curve essay! www.urban.org/research/pub...
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Has Ending Suspensions for Willful Defiance Improved Discipline Disparities? Evidence from California
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.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
My daughter had a palatal expander installed a week ago. She still only eats chicken nuggets and pasta. What gives?
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
How did rural students' postsecondary attainment change following the new high school curriculum requirements put in place by HB5 in Texas? Check out @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social & team's Learning Curve essay: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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House Bill 5 Expands Postsecondary Pathways for Rural Texas Students
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
You can find the full list of grants here: studentupwardmobility.urban.org/current-grants We are excited to work with SUMI grantees to move the field forward by supporting their work and translating, synthesizing, and disseminating their collective insights to educators and policymakers.
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Current Grants
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Two studies will develop new "non-cognitive" measures based on data schools already collect. One will measure executive function using data from a digital learning platform and another will use question-level response data from an ELA test to measure critical thinking.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
"Soft skills" (or whatever you prefer to call them!): Two SUMI teams will connect non-cognitive measures collected in K-12 to long-term outcomes. One uses national data and the other focuses on schools in rural Mississippi.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Two other studies will dive into how social context affects career readiness. One will develop the first-ever measure of “critical career readiness" and another will test whether administrative data can be used to measure students' social capital.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Career preparation: Two SUMI projects will connect widely used CTE skill measures (from ACT WorkKeys and NOCTI) to employment and earnings outcomes. Another will look at work-based learning in high school, using innovative data from daily timecards and performance ratings.
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Matt Chingos @chingos.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Some studies will go beyond the scores testing companies provide and use students' responses to individual test questions to generate new measures of skills that may be linked to economic mobility.
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