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Learning Communities and Student Success in Postsecondary Education
A Background Paper
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2005. Derek V. Price with Malisa Lee.
Interest in learning communities at colleges and universities is growing, as is early evidence of their impact on student success. This paper reviews the history, theory, and research on learning communities, describes how they operate, and proposes a multicollege demonstration project to build more conclusive evidence of their effectiveness.
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Using Covariates to Improve Precision
Empirical Guidance for Studies That Randomize Schools to Measure the Impacts of Educational Interventions
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2005. Howard S. Bloom, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, and Alison Rebeck Black.
This paper examines how controlling statistically for baseline covariates (especially pretests) improves the precision of studies that randomize schools to measure the impacts of educational interventions on student achievement.
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Raising Hope with Jobs-Plus
Promoting Work in Seattle Public Housing During a HOPE VI Redevelopment
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2005. Nandita Verma, James A. Riccio, and Howard S. Bloom, with Johanna Walter.
Early success for this ambitious employment program for public housing residents in Seattle was disrupted by a federal HOPE VI grant to tear down and revitalize the housing development.
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Welfare Reform in Los Angeles
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2005. Denise F. Polit, Laura Nelson, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, and David C. Seith, with Sarah Rich.
Welfare caseloads fell, employment increased, and neighborhood conditions improved in Los Angeles during a period of economic growth and welfare reform. However, most welfare recipients still remained poor, the concentration of poverty increased, and those who worked were usually in low-wage jobs without benefits.
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Does Making Work Pay Still Pay?
An Update on the Effects of Four Earnings Supplement Programs on Employment, Earnings, and Income
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2005. Charles Michalopoulos.
Four programs that supplemented the earnings of low-income adults increased employment, earnings, and income — particularly for the most disadvantaged — but these effects generally faded after the programs ended.
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Turning Welfare into a Work Support
Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program
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2005. Lisa A. Gennetian, Cynthia Miller, and Jared Smith.
While positive effects on most parents’ earnings and income faded after six years, young children in some of the most disadvantaged families were still performing better in school than their counterparts in a control group. And, for the most disadvantaged parents, MFIP seems to have created a lasting “leg up” in the labor market.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Early Results from Four Sites
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2005. Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, Karin Martinson, and Susan Scrivener.
Early results are mixed for Employment Retention and Advancement project programs in four sites, but programs in two sites appear to help some welfare recipients work more steadily and advance to higher-paying jobs.
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The Challenge of Scaling Up Educational Reform
Findings and Lessons from First Things First
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2005. Janet Quint, Howard S. Bloom, Alison Rebeck Black, and LaFleur Stephens with Theresa M. Akey.
First Things First, a comprehensive school reform initiative, increased student achievement in Kansas City, Kansas, the first school district to adopt the reform model. It is not yet clear if First Things First is working in four other school districts in which it has been replicated.
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Building Learning Communities
Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration at Kingsborough Community College
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2005. Dan Bloom and Colleen Sommo.
Opening Doors Learning Communities, a program serving mostly low-income freshmen at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, improved course and test pass rates, particularly in English.
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Promoting Student Success in Community College and Beyond
The Opening Doors Demonstration
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2005. Thomas Brock, Allen LeBlanc, with Casey MacGregor.
The Opening Doors Demonstration is designed to show how community colleges can help more low-income students remain in school and improve other outcomes, including degree attainment, labor market success, and personal and social well-being.
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Making Progress Toward Graduation
Evidence from the Talent Development High School Model
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2005. James J. Kemple, Corinne M. Herlihy, and Thomas J. Smith.
Talent Development, a high school reform initiative, produced substantial positive effects on attendance, academic course credits earned, tenth-grade promotion, and algebra pass rates for students in very low-performing schools in Philadelphia.
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Effects of Welfare and Employment Policies on Young Children
New Findings on Policy Experiments Conducted in the Early 1990s
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2005. Pamela A. Morris, Lisa A. Gennetian, and Greg J. Duncan. Social Policy Report Volume XIX, No.2.
In welfare and employment programs that provide earnings supplements, increased family income plays a key role in improving children’s school achievement.
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Stability and Change in Child Care and Employment
Evidence from Three States
Working Paper
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2005. Cynthia Miller.
In a study of over 3,500 women in welfare-to-work programs in three states, child care instability did not appear to be a major cause of employment instability.
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Promoting Work in Public Housing
The Effectiveness of Jobs-Plus
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2005. Howard S. Bloom, James A. Riccio, Nandita Verma with Johanna Walter.
Jobs-Plus, an ambitious employment program inside some of the nation’s poorest inner-city public housing developments, markedly increased the earnings of residents in the sites where it was implemented well.
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"One Day I Will Make It"
A Study of Adult Student Persistence in Library Literacy Programs
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2005. Kristin E. Porter, Sondra Cuban, John P. Comings with Valerie Chase.
Library-based literacy programs face serious challenges to improving adult students’ participation. This study suggests programs should be prepared to accommodate intermittent participation by adult students and to connect students to social services and other supports.
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The Interaction of Child Support and TANF
Evidence from Samples of Current and Former Welfare Recipients
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2005. Cynthia Miller, Mary Farrell, Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer.
This study suggests that child support can be an important income source and can help welfare recipients move toward self-sufficiency. More generous distribution rules increase payment rates, but many parents still do not understand the distribution rules.
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