Matt Chingos
@chingos.bsky.social
Education policy at Urban Institute.
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...
Please share with your networks and consider submitting a response by the October 24 deadline: www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom...
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...
www.help.senate.gov
September 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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...
Please share with your networks and consider submitting a response by the October 24 deadline: www.help.senate.gov/rep/newsroom...
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!
I don't expect to post much on here. To keep up with Urban's education work, follow @maggiereeves1.bsky.social & @kblagg.bsky.social!
March 29, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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!
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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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...
March 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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...
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...
Urban's Emily Gutierrez runs the numbers on how many students and schools would lose CEP: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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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March 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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...
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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🌟 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
#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
educationdata.urban.org
February 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🌟 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
#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
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...
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...
The Role of State Policy in Supporting Students Experiencing Homelessness and Former Foster Youth in Higher Education
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February 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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...
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...
How does your state really stack up on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)? www.urban.org/research/pub...
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).
www.urban.org
January 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
How does your state really stack up on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)? www.urban.org/research/pub...
Demographically adjusted 2024 NAEP scores, hot off the presses! www.urban.org/research/pub...
States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress
www.urban.org
January 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Demographically adjusted 2024 NAEP scores, hot off the presses! www.urban.org/research/pub...
Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2024 coming later this morning!
January 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2024 coming later this morning!
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...
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.
www.urban.org
January 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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...
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...
Read more from @anikaalam.bsky.social @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social & colleagues: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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...
www.urban.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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...
Read more from @anikaalam.bsky.social @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social & colleagues: www.urban.org/research/pub...
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:
December 5, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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:
Or just wait a few months for the Education Data Portal to take care of it for you!
Happy IPEDS data release day! The newest year of graduation rates, admissions, and financial aid data just dropped. And, as always, go back to revise last year's file with the newly updated data.
Use The Data
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), established as the core postsecondary education data collection program for NCES, is a system of surveys designed to collect data from all p...
nces.ed.gov
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Or just wait a few months for the Education Data Portal to take care of it for you!
Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2022 just dropped.
How did your state do? www.urban.org/research/pub...
How did your state do? www.urban.org/research/pub...
States’ Demographically Adjusted Performance on the 2022 Nation’s Report Card
www.urban.org
December 4, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Demographically adjusted NAEP scores for 2022 just dropped.
How did your state do? www.urban.org/research/pub...
How did your state do? www.urban.org/research/pub...
And here is the official @urbaninstitute.bsky.social starter pack! go.bsky.app/Cb5Cw8y
December 3, 2024 at 5:27 PM
And here is the official @urbaninstitute.bsky.social starter pack! go.bsky.app/Cb5Cw8y
Follow my @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues! bsky.app/starter-pack...
December 2, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Follow my @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues! bsky.app/starter-pack...
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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.
November 19, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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.
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...
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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November 19, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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...
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...
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...
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.
www.urban.org
November 18, 2024 at 5:08 PM
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...
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...
My daughter had a palatal expander installed a week ago. She still only eats chicken nuggets and pasta. What gives?
November 13, 2024 at 12:41 PM
My daughter had a palatal expander installed a week ago. She still only eats chicken nuggets and pasta. What gives?
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...
Check out @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social & team's Learning Curve essay: www.urban.org/research/pub...
House Bill 5 Expands Postsecondary Pathways for Rural Texas Students
www.urban.org
November 12, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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...
Check out @jjacobkirksey.bsky.social & team's Learning Curve essay: www.urban.org/research/pub...
Excited to announce the first grants from the Student Upward Mobility Initiative!
$3.5 million will support 16 projects that connect PK-12 measures to long-term success or develop new measures of skills that drive economic mobility.
A quick overview🧵 studentupwardmobility.urban.org/student-upwa...
$3.5 million will support 16 projects that connect PK-12 measures to long-term success or develop new measures of skills that drive economic mobility.
A quick overview🧵 studentupwardmobility.urban.org/student-upwa...
How Our First Grants Will Help Us Understand What It Takes to Move Students from Poverty to Prosperity
The Student Upward Mobility Initiative’s first funded projects span three drivers of economic mobility: academic skills, career preparation, and nonacademic factors.
studentupwardmobility.urban.org
September 12, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Excited to announce the first grants from the Student Upward Mobility Initiative!
$3.5 million will support 16 projects that connect PK-12 measures to long-term success or develop new measures of skills that drive economic mobility.
A quick overview🧵 studentupwardmobility.urban.org/student-upwa...
$3.5 million will support 16 projects that connect PK-12 measures to long-term success or develop new measures of skills that drive economic mobility.
A quick overview🧵 studentupwardmobility.urban.org/student-upwa...
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$3M for measurement research & development from the Urban Institute! I provided some feedback on this RFP, and I love its focus on developing mobility-relevant measures in line with modern measurement standards. LOIs due 4/30.
RFP here: studentupwardmobility.urban.org/sites/defaul...
RFP here: studentupwardmobility.urban.org/sites/defaul...
March 13, 2024 at 10:11 PM
$3M for measurement research & development from the Urban Institute! I provided some feedback on this RFP, and I love its focus on developing mobility-relevant measures in line with modern measurement standards. LOIs due 4/30.
RFP here: studentupwardmobility.urban.org/sites/defaul...
RFP here: studentupwardmobility.urban.org/sites/defaul...
I'm excited to share the initiative my team at Urban Institute has been developing for 2+ years!
The Student Upward Mobility Initiative will catalyze a new generation of R&D on PK-12 skills/competencies that drive economic mobility.
1st RFP (due 4/30) opens today! studentupwardmobility.urban.org
The Student Upward Mobility Initiative will catalyze a new generation of R&D on PK-12 skills/competencies that drive economic mobility.
1st RFP (due 4/30) opens today! studentupwardmobility.urban.org
Student Upward Mobility Initiative
studentupwardmobility.urban.org
March 11, 2024 at 1:33 PM
I'm excited to share the initiative my team at Urban Institute has been developing for 2+ years!
The Student Upward Mobility Initiative will catalyze a new generation of R&D on PK-12 skills/competencies that drive economic mobility.
1st RFP (due 4/30) opens today! studentupwardmobility.urban.org
The Student Upward Mobility Initiative will catalyze a new generation of R&D on PK-12 skills/competencies that drive economic mobility.
1st RFP (due 4/30) opens today! studentupwardmobility.urban.org
The Learning Curve essay series launched our 2024 call for proposals today!
This year's CFP is focused on local policies and programs, such as those funded by ESSER and HEERF.
Selected authors receive $2,500 honoraria.
Read more and apply here: www.urban.org/policy-cente...
This year's CFP is focused on local policies and programs, such as those funded by ESSER and HEERF.
Selected authors receive $2,500 honoraria.
Read more and apply here: www.urban.org/policy-cente...
Learning Curve 2024 Call for Proposals: Early Evidence on Local Policies and Programs
www.urban.org
March 4, 2024 at 6:49 PM
The Learning Curve essay series launched our 2024 call for proposals today!
This year's CFP is focused on local policies and programs, such as those funded by ESSER and HEERF.
Selected authors receive $2,500 honoraria.
Read more and apply here: www.urban.org/policy-cente...
This year's CFP is focused on local policies and programs, such as those funded by ESSER and HEERF.
Selected authors receive $2,500 honoraria.
Read more and apply here: www.urban.org/policy-cente...