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State- and District-Level Support for Successful Transitions into High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Corinne Herlihy.
This policy brief, published by the National High School Center, focuses on five key challenges that states, districts, and schools should address to support a successful transition into high school.
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Toward Ensuring a Successful Transition into High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Corinne Herlihy.
This issue brief, published by the National High School Center, suggests that transitions into high school can be eased when both structural and specialized curricula reforms are in place.
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Managing the Transition to High School in a Comprehensive Urban High School
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2007. Thomas J. Smith.
This “snapshot,” published by the National High School Center, explains how Thomas A. Edison High School in Philadelphia implemented a Ninth-Grade Success Academy.
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Emerging Evidence on Improving High School Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
The Effects of Four Popular Improvement Programs
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2006. Corinne M. Herlihy and Janet Quint.
This research brief, published by the National High School Center, draws on findings from four studies by MDRC that shed light on both the nature of the problems found in low-performing high schools and on the effectiveness of promising interventions that attempt to address those problems.
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Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care
The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children
Policy Brief
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2003. Virginia W. Knox, Andrew S. London, Ellen K. Scott with Susan Blank.
Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.
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Making Child Care Choices
How Welfare and Work Policies Influence Parents' Decisions
Policy Brief
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2002. Lisa A. Gennetian, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby, Young Eun Chang, Edward D. Lowe, Thomas S. Weisner.
Congressional deliberations on the future of welfare reform have reopened a debate about whether current child care assistance programs adequately support employment among low-income working parents while also fostering their children's development. Issues at the forefront of this debate are explored in this timely new policy brief.
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The Role of Education and Training in Welfare Reform
Policy Brief
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The Brookings Institution.
2002. Judith M. Gueron, Gayle Hamilton.
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Making Work Pay for Public Housing Residents
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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2002. James A. Riccio, Steven Bliss.
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Welfare Policies Matter for Children and Youth
Lessons for TANF Reauthorization
Policy Brief
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2002. Pamela Morris, Virginia Knox, Lisa A. Gennetian.
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Sanctions and Welfare Reform
Policy Brief
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The Brookings Institution.
2002. Dan Bloom, Don Winstead.
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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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The 30-Year Tug-of-War
Can Reform Resolve Welfare Policy's Thorniest Conundrum?
Policy Brief
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The Brookings Institution.
2001. Gordon Berlin.
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Welfare, Housing, and Employment
Learning from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
Policy Brief
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