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Parenting and Providing
The Impact of Parents' Fair Share on Paternal Involvement
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2000. Virginia Knox, Cindy Redcross.
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Parenting Behavior in a Sample of Young Mothers in Poverty
Results of the New Chance Observational Study
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1998. Martha J. Zaslow and Carolyn A. Eldred, Editors.
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Participating in a Place-Based Employment Initiative
Lessons from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration in Public Housing
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2003. Linda Yuriko Kato.
From the Jobs-Plus initiative, this report describes efforts to build participation among public housing residents in a program that offers services and financial incentives designed to promote work.
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Paying for Persistence
Early Results of a Louisiana Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents Attending Community College
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2006. Thomas Brock and Lashawn Richburg-Hayes
Funded by state welfare dollars, two community colleges in the New Orleans area offered performance-based scholarships and enhanced counseling to low-income parents, as part of MDRC’s Opening Doors demonstration. These early findings show the program had significant positive effects on academic achievement and rates of retention.
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Performance Trajectories and Performance Gaps as Achievement Effect-Size Benchmarks for Educational Interventions
Working Paper
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2008. Howard S. Bloom, Carolyn J. Hill, Alison Rebeck Black, and Mark W. Lipsey.
This MDRC working paper on research methodology explores two complementary approaches to developing empirical benchmarks for achievement effect sizes in educational interventions.
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Post-Program Impacts of the Youth Incentive Entitlement Pilot Projects
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1984. George Farkas, Randall Olsen, Ernst Stromsdorfer, Linda Sharpe, Felicity Skidmore, D. Alton Smith, Sally Merrill.
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Post-TANF Food Stamp and Medicaid Benefits
Factors That Aid or Impede Their Receipt
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2001. Janet Quint, Rebecca Widom with Lindsay Moore.
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Poverty and Philanthropy: Strategies for Change
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2008. Gordon Berlin.
This paper, by MDRC President Gordon Berlin, traces the economic and social trends that help explain the persistence of poverty, describes some of the unintended consequences of public policies that have exacerbated the challenges facing poor families, and discusses four overarching strategies to address one of the most powerful contributors to poverty: stagnant wages for low-income workers, particularly among men, young men, and men of color.
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Preliminary Research Findings
WIN Research Laboratory Project
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1980. MDRC.
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Preparing High School Students for Successful Transitions to Postsecondary Education and Employment
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2008. Michael Bangser.
This issue brief, published by the National High School Center, highlights lessons from selected policies and programs designed to improve students’ preparation for life after high school.
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Project Redirection
Interim Report on Program Implementation
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1981. Alvia Branch, Janet Quint with Sheila Mandel, Sallie Shuping Russell.
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Project Transition
Testing an Intervention to Help High School Freshmen Succeed
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1999. Janet C. Quint, Cynthia Miller, Jennifer J. Pastor, Rachel E. Cytron.
Project Transition combines strategies that are becoming more common in K-12 settings across the nation: student-teacher clusters, extra time for teachers to work together, and a teacher "coach" meant to support instructional change
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Promoting Employment in Public Housing Communities
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2001. James A. Riccio, Steven Bliss.
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Promoting Participation
How to Increase Involvement in Welfare-to-Work Activities
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1999. Gayle Hamilton, Susan Scrivener.
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Promoting Student Success in Community College and Beyond
The Opening Doors Demonstration
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2005. Thomas Brock, Allen LeBlanc, with Casey MacGregor.
The Opening Doors Demonstration is designed to show how community colleges can help more low-income students remain in school and improve other outcomes, including degree attainment, labor market success, and personal and social well-being.
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Promoting Work in Public Housing
The Effectiveness of Jobs-Plus
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2005. Howard S. Bloom, James A. Riccio, Nandita Verma with Johanna Walter.
Jobs-Plus, an ambitious employment program inside some of the nation’s poorest inner-city public housing developments, markedly increased the earnings of residents in the sites where it was implemented well.
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Pursuing Economic Security for Young Adults
Five-Year Impacts of Pre-Employment Services in the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies
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2003. Stephen Freedman.
This report finds that — over a five-year follow-up period — both mandatory employment-focused and education-focused welfare-to-work programs helped young adults attain higher earnings.
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