Christine Mulhern

The project team will examine gaps between the educational experiences and attainment of students in rural and nonrural areas to identify policy leverage points and malleable factors that can improve geographic equity in student achievement and access to postsecondary education. Students in rural areas are less likely to earn a college degree than their peers in nonrural locales, and they often face unique constraints in access to school resources and postsecondary education. Despite compris...

This exploration project will examine the extent to which college credits earned in high school are transferred to a postsecondary institution and applied to a degree or major. This project addresses the problem that although many students are attaining college-level credits during high school with the goal of getting a head start on their postsecondary education, they do not always graduate from postsecondary institutions as quickly as the number of earned credits would allow.

Harvard established the Partnering in Education Research (PIER) training program  to train doctoral students to conduct quantitative education policy analysis and to conduct collaborative research with education agencies.