Research

Education and community leaders and policymakers need key information to make good decisions about school policy and practice. They need...

Attrition and Dropout Rates in Texas Texas public schools are losing one out of five students. Each year, IDRA releases...

Under the leadership of Dr. María “Cuca” Robledo Montecel, IDRA President & CEO, the José A. Cárdenas School Finance Fellows...

  Texas Counselors Concerned About Texas College Preparation Policies The Greater Texas Foundation asked IDRA to conduct a qualitative study...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in July 2023 launched an innovative program to train a diverse group of future...

Students are concerned about weak attention to incidents of race- and identity-based discrimination in school. And they call for education...

Students investigated the status of MAS their school. A second cohort began their research project in 2024.

In 2020, high school and college students studied challenges young people faced in their schools during COVID-19.

Throughout IDRA’s history, our research has assessed fair funding policy efforts undertaken in Texas and other states to examine progress...

Zero Tolerance Policies Zero tolerance policies likely contribute to high attrition rates of Black students and Hispanic students in Texas...

Below are samples of IDRA research in the education of emergent bilingual students. For additional resources, see Emergent Bilingual Student...

In Spanish, amanecer means “the beginning of a new day.” In 1975, IDRA began a new day in public education by developing...

Teaching Quality As students return to school, this spotlight focuses on our research on teaching quality and its impact on...

For decades, IDRA has researched the critical transition between high school and college access and success, particularly for minority and...

IDRA’s studies of a community college yielded strategies that improved its recruitment and retention of Hispanic, low-income students, and students...