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Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models

Recent MDRC evaluations of three high school reform models — Career Academies, First Things First, and Talent Development — offer hope that comprehensive programs can improve low-performing high schools. This research synthesis for policymakers and practitioners offers practical lessons for creating personalized learning environments, helping struggling freshmen, improving instruction, preparing students for the world beyond high school, and stimulating change in overstressed high schools.

Community Colleges: The Unsung Heroes of Higher Education
Community colleges are the unsung heroes of higher education: They enroll close to half of all college students in this country. They serve disproportionate numbers of low-income students, first-generation college students, students of color, and working parents. And they prepare people for jobs that make our communities run: nurses, firefighters, police officers, child care workers, office accountants.

Paying for Persistence: A Unique Scholarship Program to Increase Student Success at Community Colleges
In this seven-minute video, MDRC researcher Lashawn Richburg-Hayes summarizes promising findings about a performance-based scholarship that boosted academic achievement and retention rates at two New Orleans-area community colleges.
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Does Education Increase Economic Mobility?


State- and District-Level Support for Successful Transitions into High School
Toward Ensuring a Successful Transition into High School
Managing the Transition to High School in a Comprehensive Urban High School

The Power of Work
The Center for Employment Opportunities
Comprehensive Prisoner Reentry Program
Making Random Assignment Happen
Evidence from the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration
Making Work Pay
How to Design and Implement Financial Work Supports to Improve Family and Child Well-Being and Reduce Poverty

Improving Labor Market Success for Low-Wage Workers
MDRC's Research on Job Retention and Advancement Programs, Education Interventions, and Transitional Jobs Programs

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