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The Talent Development Middle School Model
Context, Components, and Initial Impacts on Students’ Performance and Attendance
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2004. Corinne M. Herlihy and James J. Kemple.
During the first three years of implementation in six urban schools, The Talent Development Middle School model—an ongoing, whole-school reform initiative—had a positive impact on math achievement for eighth-graders but appeared to produce no systematic improvement in outcomes for seventh-graders.
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Support Success
Services That May Help Low-Income Students Succeed in Community College
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2004. Rogéair Purnell and Susan Blank with Susan Scrivener and Reishma Seupersad.
Community colleges can pursue many strategies for enhancing student services, including offering “one-stop shopping,” which provides students with multiple services at the same time and place.
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Resident Participation in Seattle’s Jobs-Plus Program
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2004. Edward B. Liebow, Carolina Katz Reid, Gabrielle E. O'Malley, and Scott Marsh:
Environmental Health and Social Policy Center, Seattle WA and Susan Blank: Consultant, MDRC.
Seattle Jobs-Plus — part of an MDRC national research demonstration designed to promote employment among public housing residents — succeeded in engaging a majority of residents, many of whom were immigrants from diverse parts of the world, in work-related services or supports.
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A Profile of Families Cycling on and off Welfare
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2004. Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Stephen Freedman.
In MDRC’s study of over 160,000 single-parent welfare recipients, families who repeatedly return to welfare assistance—“cyclers”—were less disadvantaged in the labor market than long-term welfare recipients. At the same time, they were less able than short-term recipients to attain stable employment and to work without welfare.
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Implementing Financial Work Incentives in Public Housing
Lessons from the Jobs-Plus Demonstration
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2004. Alissa Gardenhire-Crooks, with Susan Blank and James A. Riccio.
This report examines how public housing authorities in six cities implemented one of the most innovative features of the Jobs-Plus demonstration: using incentives plans to keep rents lower than they would have been under existing rules as a way to encourage and reward work among public housing residents.
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Mobilizing Resident Networks in Public Housing
Implementing the Community Support for Work Component of Jobs-Plus
Working Paper
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2004. Linda Yuriko Kato.
The “community support for work” component of Jobs-Plus relies on outreach workers from public housing developments to help extend Jobs-Plus’s reach in public housing communities.
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Married and Poor
Basic Characteristics of Economically Disadvantaged Couples in the U.S.
Working Paper
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2004. David J. Fein.
Using recent surveys and published reports, this working paper assembles a portrait of the attitudes and behaviors of disadvantaged married couples. It gathers and assesses descriptive statistics on the formation and stability, characteristics, and quality of marriages in the low-income population in the U.S. We welcome discussion and comments on this working paper.
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High School Reform Conference Series
Using Rigorous Evidence to Improve Policy and Practice
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2004. MDRC.
How can evidence-based research help improve low-performing high schools? This report summarizes the first in a series of conferences designed to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to address that question.
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Conducting Classroom Observations in First Things First Schools
Working Paper
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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.
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The Talent Development High School Model
Context, Components, and Initial Impacts on Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Performance
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2004. James J. Kemple and Corinne M. Herlihy.
An examination of the implementation and early impacts of Talent Development, a whole-school reform initiative, found that the model produced substantial gains in ninth-grade students’ course completion and promotion rates.
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Welfare Reform in Miami
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2004. Thomas Brock, Isaac Kwakye, Judy C. Polyné, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, David Seith, Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick with Tara Cullen and Sarah Rich.
Welfare caseloads fell, employment increased, and social conditions generally improved in Miami-Dade County after the 1996 federal welfare reform law was passed, but the county’s welfare-to-work program was poorly implemented and unusually harsh.
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Building Bridges to Self-Sufficiency
Improving Services for Low-Income Working Families
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2004. Jennifer Miller, Frieda Molina.
A collaboration of MDRC and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, this report explores how best to improve job stability and career advancement of low-wage earners and increase their household income.
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The Effects of Marriage and Divorce on Families and Children
Presented Before the Science, Technology and Space Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate
Congressional Testimony
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2004. Gordon Berlin.
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Testimony of David Butler, Vice President, MDRC Before the Senate Committee on Finance
On Temporary Assistance for Needy Families And the Hard-to-Employ
Congressional Testimony
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2004. David Butler.
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Career Academies
Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes and Educational Attainment
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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.
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Scaling Up First Things First
Findings from the First Implementation Year
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2003. Janet C. Quint, D. Crystal Byndloss.
Based on survey data and findings from interviews and observations, this report describes the First Things First reform initiative and its first year of implementation at seven secondary schools, with a focus on three key components: small learning communities, a family advocacy system, and instructional improvement strategies.
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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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