She is a scholar of urban education and, for over 13 years, she has conducted research on the college preparation of students of color in urban communities. For four years, Dr. Hinton conducted a mixed-methods case study of an urban, non-selective college preparatory charter high school, a project initiated while she was a Spencer Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Chicago. Thereafter, Dr. Hinton initiated a project examining the relationship between school size and students’ access to college preparatory and planning information in a large urban school district.