The gaps in achievement and attainment between races and classes have long vexed our educational system, with the former remaining stubbornly stable and the latter growing in recent decades. Researchers consistently conclude that these gaps mostly form before school and during the summer as the...

This paper investigates the potential efficacy of policies designed to increase homeownership as a means of narrowing the achievement gap by synthesizing the empirical literature linking homeownership and academic performance and reviewing relevant theory. Overall, the literature yields mixed...

The goals of HOPE VI housing virtually mandate that property managers attempt to change the norms and behaviors of residents, but most studies of the program seem to avoid this subject. This study examines the transcripts from 23 residents of an established HOPE VI housing development to better...

Promise Neighborhoods attempt to replicate the Harlem Children’s Zone’s “cradle to college pipeline” model of coordinated and continuous child and family services for a single neighborhood. We analyze the 46 planning and 12 implementation grants to determine which factors these...

Utilizing a dataset of over 900,000 enrollees in adult education programs in New York State between 2005 and 2013, we examine college-going of GED® passers. Upon enrollment, participants were asked whether they wanted to attend college after completion; almost 13,000 students both indicated a...