Browsing by Author "Pham, Annie"

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    Campus Variation in Grade Retention and Course Failure Rates After Attending Summer School in Houston ISD
    (Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2024) Thrash, Courtney; Pham, Annie; Hood, Stacey
    This brief examines summer school retention and course failure rates at schools throughout the district to determine which schools have higher rates relative to other schools in the district. It also looks at what characteristics are associated with a student being retained after summer school and failing a course in summer school.
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    Parent University Evaluation
    (Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Molina, Mauricio; Pham, Annie; Bonner, Hannah; Stroub, Kori
    Parental involvement in children's education significantly improves attendance, behavior, grades, and social skills, all of which are crucial for long-term success. To increase parental engagement and advocacy from parents, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) established the Parent University program in the 2018-19 school year. While the program has continuously evolved since its inception, the overall goal has remained the same: to connect parents with district-provided resources and information through a series of courses on topics that include parents’ dreams and aspirations for their children, the inner workings of HISD, challenges to equity and quality education, parental advocacy and volunteerism, and the pathway to college. Given this wide range of content and the resource-intensive nature of the intervention, the Kinder Institute for Urban Research’s Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) has partnered with HISD to better understand which elements of Parent University have been the most effective in promoting parental engagement and advocacy. Information from this study will be used by program administrators to streamline and improve the content provided to future Parent University cohorts.
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    Student Enrollment and Mobility During the COVID-19 Pandemic
    (Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research) Pham, Annie; Thomas, Tori; Hood, Stacey; Horne, Autumn
    The Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) examined patterns of student mobility, specifically students changing schools or school districts, in Houston-area school districts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, this brief examined whether and how student mobility networks in Houston-area school districts changed during the pandemic.
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    Sunrise Centers — Strengths, Challenges, and Recommendations to Enhance Family and Student Well-Being
    (Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2025) Pham, Annie; Bonner, Hannah; Horne, Autumn; Sánchez-Soto, Gabriela
    This four-part series examines the first-year implementation of the Houston Independent School District’s (HISD) Sunrise Centers. Launched in 2023-2024, the Sunrise Centers provide essential non-instructional resources to students and families across seven centers in the district. This series, a collaboration between the Kinder Institute for Urban Research's Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) and HISD’s Family and Community Engagement (FACE) department, explores initial strengths, challenges, and recommendations to enhance the program’s impact on family and student well-being.