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    California
Final Report On The San Diego Job Search and Work Experience Demonstration
    1986. Barbara Goldman, Daniel Friendlander, David Long.

 
    California
Findings from the San Diego Job Search and Work Experience Demonstration
    1985. Barbara Goldman, Daniel Friedlander, Judith Gueron, David Long with Gayle Hamilton, Gregory Hoerz.

 
    California
Preliminary Findings from the San Diego Job Search and Work Experience Demonstration
    1984. Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron, Joseph Ball, Marilyn Price with Daniel Friedlander, Gayle Hamilton.

 
    Can Nonexperimental Comparison Group Methods Match the Findings from a Random Assignment Evaluation of Mandatory Welfare-to-Work Programs?
    2002. Howard S. Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos, Carolyn J. Hill, Ying Lei.

 
    Career Academies
Impacts on Students' Engagement and Performance in High School
    2000. James J. Kemple, Jason C. Snipes.

 
    Career Academies
Building Career Awareness and Work-Based Learning Activities Through Employer Partnerships
    1999. James J. Kemple, Susan M. Poglinco, Jason C. Snipes.

 
    Career Academies
Impacts on Students’ Initial Transitions to Post-Secondary Education and Employment
    2001. James J. Kemple.

 
    Career Academies
Communities of Support for Students and Teachers—Emerging Findings from a 10-Site Evaluation
    1997. James J. Kemple.

 
    Career Academies
Early Implementation Lessons from a 10-Site Evaluation
    1996. James J.Kemple and JoAnn Leah Rock.

 
    Career Academies
Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes and Educational Attainment
    2004. James J. Kemple with Judith Scott-Clayton.

Career Academies produced substantial and sustained improvements in earnings of young men after high school, without limiting opportunities to attend college.
 
    Career Beginnings Impact Evaluation
Findings from a Program for Disadvantaged High School Students
    1990. George Cave, Janet Quint.

 
    Caring and Paying
What Fathers and Mothers Say About Child Support
    1992. Frank Furstenberg, Jr., Kay Sherwood, Mercer Sullivan.

 
    Changing Courses
Instructional Innovations That Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College
    2003. Richard Kazis, Marty Liebowitz.

This paper looks at curricular and program redesign strategies currently used by community colleges to speed nontraditional students’ advancement from lower levels of skill into credential programs and to shorten the time commitment required to earn a credential.
 
    Changing to a Work First Strategy
Lessons from Los Angeles County’s GAIN Program for Welfare Recipients
    1997. Evan Weissman.

 
    Charting a Path to Graduation
The Effect of Project GRAD on Elementary School
Student Outcomes in Four Urban Districts
    2006. Jason C. Snipes, Glee Ivory Holton, and Fred Doolittle.

This report describes the effects of Project GRAD, an ambitious education reform that targets high schools and the elementary and middle schools that feed into them, on student test scores in elementary schools in Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; and Newark, New Jersey.
 
    Child Care and Employment
Evidence from Random Assignment Studies of Welfare and Work Programs
Working Paper
    2003. Lisa A. Gennetian and Charles Michalopoulos.

 
    Child Support Enforcement
A Case Study
    1993. Dan Bloom with Bridget Dixon.

 
    Children in Public Housing Developments
An Examination of the Children at the Beginning of the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
    2002. Pamela Morris, Stephanie Jones with Jared Smith.

Children who live in public housing are commonly thought to be at greater risk of experiencing academic and behavioral problems than other low-income children, but this paper is among the few to explore empirically the characteristics and circumstances of these children.
 
    Choices and Life Circumstances
An Ethnographic Study of Project Redirection Teens
    1983. Sydelle Levy with William Grinker.

 
    Civic Engagement in Camden, New Jersey
A Baseline Portrait
    2007. Robert Lake, Kathe Newman, Philip Ashton, Richard Nisa, and Bradley Wilson.

This report, from the Camden Regional Equity Demonstration Project, documents the challenges in fostering meaningful and effective civic engagement in an ambitious redevelopment initiative.
 
    Closing the Aspirations-Attainment Gap
Implications for High School Reform
A Commentary from Chicago
    2006. Melissa Roderick.

In this paper, prepared for MDRC’s 2005 high school reform conference, Melissa Roderick, Co-Director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research, contends that the primary goal of high school reform should be to close the gap between the high aspirations of minority and low-income public high school students — most of whom want to go to college — and the low numbers who graduate with the skills they need.
 
    Community Service Jobs in Wisconsin Works
The Milwaukee County Experience
    2003. Andrea Robles, Fred Doolittle, Susan Gooden.

This report examines the implementation of the community service jobs component of Wisconsin's Temporary Aid for Needy Families program during the program’s first three years of operation.
 
    Comparing Outcomes for Los Angeles County’s HUD-Assisted and Unassisted CalWORKs Leavers
    U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2003. Nandita Verma, Richard Hendra.

This report studies the post-welfare experiences of three groups — two that received federal housing assistance when they left the welfare rolls and an unassisted group that did not — to see how they differ with respect to their labor market outcomes, material well-being, and propensity to return to the welfare rolls or rely on other forms of public assistance.
 
    Complaint Resolution in the Context of Welfare Reform
How W-2 Settles Disputes
    2001. Suzanne Lynn.

 
    Conducting Classroom Observations in First Things First Schools
Working Paper
    2004. Angela Estacion, Teresa McMahon, Janet Quint, with Bernice Melamud and LaFleur Stephens.

Relying on 427 classroom observations conducted over a three-year period, this study traces changes in teachers’ instructional practices in the First Things First schools.
 
    Congressional Testimony by Gordon Berlin on Solutions to Poverty
Congressional Testimony
    2007. Gordon L. Berlin

In his testimony before the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, MDRC President Gordon Berlin argues that the most direct way to alleviate poverty is to tackle the legacy of falling wages, particularly for men with less education.
 
    Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study
Six-Month Survey Results
    1999. Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Dan Bloom.

 
    Connecticut Post-Time Limit Tracking Study
Three-Month Survey Results
    1998. Jo Anna Hunter-Manns, Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Johanna Walter.

 
    Connecticut's Jobs First Program
An Analysis of Welfare Leavers
    2000. Laura Melton, Dan Bloom.

 
    Cost Analysis Step by Step
A How-To Guide for Planners and Providers of Welfare-to-Work and Other Employment and Training Programs.
    1998. David Greenberg, Ute Appenzeller.

 
    Course Taking, Test Preparation, and Career Academy Programs
Findings from a Field Study
    2002. Thomas J. Smith.

 
    Creating an Alternative to Welfare
First-Year Findings on the Implementation, Welfare Impacts, and Costs of the Self-Sufficiency Project
    Social Research and Demonstration Corporation.
1995. Tod Mijanovich, David Long.

 
    Creating New Hope
Implementation of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
    1997. Thomas Brock, Fred Doolittle, Veronica Fellerath, Michael Wiseman with David Greenberg and Robinson Hollister, Jr.

 



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