TetherEd Insights
Case studies and lessons from our work with governments, school networks, and families.
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Behind every enrollment figure is a family deciding where a child will start school. Julia is a composite, drawn from the patterns New Haven's research documented, but her story is one the district sees again and again each cycle.
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Learn what Chile's national school choice experimentation can teach US districts about systems building. For a decade, Chile's choice infrastructure has been standing the test of time, geography, and scale.
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Much of what shrinks a district's enrollment sits outside a superintendent's reach, from falling birth rates to state programs that fund private options. A district can lower families' risk of going unmatched by reaching them while they are still applying.
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Discover how New Haven Public Schools partnered with TetherEd to transform its complex school choice process into a transparent, equitable system using research-backed digital enrollment tools. By implementing smart matching algorithms and real-time applicatio
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TetherEd is rooted in field-leading research on enrollment system designs, ranging from national randomized controlled trials to comprehensive family surveys and structural model estimations. We explain a bit of that research in this blog post.
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Chile’s nationwide SAE platform unified 8 000 schools under one digital system. It improved transparency, cut family application costs by 75 percent, and achieved a 90 percent match rate, setting an international benchmark for equity in education.
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JUNJI’s new national enrollment platform connects 3,000 child care centers through a single digital system. Algorithmic matching and real-time data simplify access, ease provider workloads, and give government agencies actionable insights.
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Public school districts across the U.S. face falling enrollment caused by lower birth rates and rising competition. Applying economic tools, transparent coordination, and data-driven planning helps them sustain funding and rebuild family trust.
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