Posts by Matthew Chingos — Guest Contributor

Matthew Chingos is a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, where he studies education-related topics at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels. His areas of expertise include class-size reduction, standardized testing, teacher quality, student loan debt, and college graduation rates. He lives with his wife and daughter in Logan Circle.

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  Gentrification isn’t the only reason DC’s test scores are rising

  EducationBy Kristin Blagg (Guest Contributor), Matthew Chingos (Guest Contributor) May 25, 2016 9

  Student performance in the nation’s capital has increased so dramatically that it has attracted significant attention and prompted many to ask whether gentrification, rather than an improvement in school quality, is behind the higher scores. Demographic change explains some of the increases in test scores, but by no means all of them. We drew this conclusion after…  Keep reading…