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Working in partnership with others, MDRC is building an important body of evidence about what works — and doesn’t work —
to address some of society’s toughest problems. Once known primarily for evaluations of state welfare-to-work programs,
today we are working on close to 70 projects in five policy areas. We have produced hundreds of research reports, as well
as policy briefs, “how-to” guides, and videos that distill the results of our studies and discuss their implications.
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Recent News |
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MDRC Experts Featured at Federal Welfare Research Conference, May 28-30
April 23, 2008
The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is hosting the 11th Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference, May 28-30, 2008, in Washington, DC.
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Resources from Institute of Education Sciences’ Training Institute Now Available
April 22, 2008
Videotaped and PowerPoint presentations from a 2007 Research Training Institute, sponsored by the National Center for Education Research at the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES), are now available on the IES Web site.
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MDRC Receives Grant from The Kresge Foundation to Support Preschool and Community College Research, Enhanced Communication Efforts
April 15, 2008
In April, MDRC received an $800,000 grant from The Kresge Foundation to support MDRC’s Learning Communities Demonstration, Performance-Based Scholarships Demonstration, Foundations of Learning Demonstration, and enhancements of MDRC’s communications efforts with policymakers.
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MDRC Researchers Presenting at Urban Affairs Association Meeting, April 23-26
April 14, 2008
The Urban Affairs Association is holding its 38th Annual Meeting, “1968 Revisited: Cities 40 Years Later,” in Baltimore on April 23-26, 2008.
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Opening Doors Report Featured in Education Trade Press
March 13, 2008
MDRC’s recent report from its Opening Doors Demonstration, A Good Start: Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College, has been featured in two prominent education trade periodicals, the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed
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Howard Bloom Contributes to New Handbook on Research Methods
March 12, 2008
Howard Bloom, MDRC’s Chief Social Scientist, has contributed a chapter, “The Core Analytics of Randomized Experiments for Social Research,” to The SAGE Handbook of Social Research Methods, edited by Pertti Alasuutari, Leonard Bickman, and Julia Brannen, which will be published in late March by SAGE Publications.
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MDRC Researchers Presenting at American Association of Community Colleges Conference, April 5-8
March 03, 2008
The American Association of Community Colleges is holding its annual conference in Philadelphia on April 5-8, 2008.
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MDRC Receives Gates Foundation Grant for Antipoverty Projects
February 22, 2008
In December, MDRC was awarded a $979,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support work in two projects focused on addressing poverty: (1) replicating a promising performance-based scholarship for low-income community college students and (2) exploring interventions to help young men, particularly African-Americans, who are disconnected from the worlds of school and work.
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National Commission on Community Colleges Calls for Expansion of Achieving the Dream
February 08, 2008
In January, the College Board’s National Commission on Community Colleges released a report, Winning the Skills Race and Strengthening America’s Middle Class: An Action Agenda for Community Colleges, that called for the national expansion of Achieving the Dream: Community College Count.
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USA Today Op-Ed Praises Opportunity NYC
January 28, 2008
On January 25, 2008, USA Today published a column by Joyce King, "Bloomberg Incentive Chases King’s Dream," on the Opportunity NYC demonstration, an initiative of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Center for Economic Opportunity that involves new forms of temporary cash payments to poor families to boost their income in the short-term while building their capacity to avoid longer-term and second-generation poverty.
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