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Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
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2006. Janet Quint.
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.
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The Power of Work
The Center for Employment Opportunities
Comprehensive Prisoner Reentry Program
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2006. The Center for Employment Opportunities and MDRC.
The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) serves nearly 2,000 reentering prisoners a year with a structured program of pre-employment training, immediate short-term transitional work, and job placement services. This report, written jointly by CEO and MDRC, describes how the CEO program operates. Results from a random assignment evaluation by MDRC are expected next year.
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Making Random Assignment Happen
Evidence from the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration
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UK Department for Work and Pensions.
2006. Robert Walker, Lesley Hoggart, and Gayle Hamilton, with Susan Blank.
The largest ever random assignment test of a social policy in Britain is being applied in a demonstration of the Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) program. This report, written by MDRC and British colleagues as part of a consortium of social policy research firms and produced for the UK Department for Work and Pensions, examines how well random assignment worked.
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Making Work Pay
How to Design and Implement Financial Work Supports to Improve Family and Child Well-Being and Reduce Poverty
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2003. Debbie Greenberger and Robert Anselmi.
This latest MDRC how-to guide identifies program features and practices that can help states better target financial work incentives and maximize their effectiveness.
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Beyond Work First
How to Help Hard-to-Employ Individuals Get Jobs and Succeed in the Workforce
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2001. Amy Brown.
This "how-to" guide presents promising practices for identifying and assisting hard-to-employ people by distilling information and lessons from relevant research and the experiences of rehabilitation, clinical treatment, and welfare-to-work providers.
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Steady Work and Better Jobs
How to Help Low-Income Parents Sustain Employment and Advance in the Workforce
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2000. Julie Strawn, Karin Martinson.
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Encouraging Work, Reducing Poverty
The Impact of Work Incentive Programs
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2000. Gordon L. Berlin.
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San Francisco Works
Toward an Employer-Led Approach to Welfare Reform and Workforce Development
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2000. Steven Bliss.
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The Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum
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2000. Eileen Hayes with Kay Sherwood.
Developed as part of MDRC’s Parents’ Fair Share Demonstration, the Responsible Fatherhood Curriculum is intended to help fathers more effectively fulfill their roles as parents, partners, and workers. The curriculum is divided into 20 sessions focusing on such issues as male-female relationships, fathers as providers, managing conflict and anger (on and off the job), and race and racism.
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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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Designing and Administering a Wage-Paying Community Service Employment Program Under TANF
Some Considerations and Choices
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1999. Kay Sherwood.
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Cost Analysis Step by Step
A How-To Guide for Planners and Providers of Welfare-to-Work and Other Employment and Training Programs.
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1998. David Greenberg, Ute Appenzeller.
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Learnfare
How to Implement a Mandatory Stay-in-School Program for Teenage Parents on Welfare
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1998. David A. Long, Johannes M. Bos.
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Business Partnerships
How to Involve Employers in Welfare Reform
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1998. Amy Brown, Maria L. Buck, Erik Skinner.
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Washington Works
Sustaining a Vision of Welfare Reform Based on Personal Change, Work Preparation, and Employer Involvement
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1998. Susan Gooden.
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Changing to a Work First Strategy
Lessons from Los Angeles County’s GAIN Program for Welfare Recipients
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1997. Evan Weissman.
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Tulsa’s IndEx Program
Business-Led Initiative for Welfare Reform and Economic Development
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1997. Maria L. Buck.
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Work First
How to Implement an Employment-Focused Approach to Welfare Reform
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1997. Amy Brown.
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After AFDC
Welfare-to-Work Choices and Challenges for States
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1997. Dan Bloom.
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Improving the Productivity of JOBS Programs
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1993. Eugene Bardach.
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Assessing JOBS Participants
Issues and Trade-offs
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1992. Patricia Auspos, Kay Sherwood.
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Linking Welfare and Education
A Study of New Programs in Five States
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1992. Edward Pauly, David Long, Karin Martinson.
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