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Instructional Leadership, Teaching Quality, and Student Achievement
Suggestive Evidence from Three Urban School Districts
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2007. Janet C. Quint, Theresa M. Akey, Shelley Rappaport, and Cynthia J. Willner.
Does providing instruction-related professional development to school principals set in motion a chain of events that can improve teaching and learning in their schools? This report examines professional development efforts by the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Learning in elementary schools in Austin, St. Paul, and New York City.
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Transitional Jobs for Ex-Prisoners
Early Impacts from a Random Assignment Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) Prisoner Reentry Program
Working Paper
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2007. Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, Janine Zweig (Urban Institute), and Gilda Azurdia.
After one year, CEO’s transitional jobs program generated a large but short-lived increase in employment for ex-prisoners. A subgroup of recently released prisoners showed positive effects on recidivism: They were less likely to have their parole revoked, to be convicted of a felony, and to be reincarcerated than the control group.
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Four Strategies to Overcome Barriers to Employment
An Introduction to the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project
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2007. Dan Bloom, Cindy Redcross, JoAnn Hsueh, Sarah Rich, and Vanessa Martin.
This demonstration is evaluating four diverse strategies designed to improve employment and other outcomes for low-income parents and others who face serious barriers to employment.
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Experimentation and Social Welfare Policymaking in the United States
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2007. Gordon L. Berlin
In a speech given at a conference sponsored by the French government on the role of experimental studies in reducing poverty, MDRC President Gordon Berlin described how the results of random assignment studies have acted as powerful levers for changing social policy in the United States.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Personal Roads to Individual Development and Employment (PRIDE) Program in New York City
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2007. Dan Bloom, Cynthia Miller, and Gilda Azurdia.
A random assignment study of a welfare-to-work program for recipients with work-limiting medical and mental health conditions shows that participants had increased employment and decreased welfare payments.
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From Getting By to Getting Ahead
Navigating Career Advancement for Low-Wage Workers
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2007. Betsy L. Tessler and David Seith.
This report, from MDRC’s Work Advancement and Support Center (WASC) demonstration, explores how WASC career coaches help low-wage workers understand the complex interactions between earnings and eligibility for work support programs and guide them to make the best advancement decisions possible.
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Rewarding the Work of Individuals
A Counterintuitive Approach to Reducing Poverty and Strengthening Families
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2007. Gordon L. Berlin.
In this article in The Future of Children journal, MDRC President Gordon Berlin answers the question: If you could do one thing to reduce poverty in America, what would it be? He explores the potential advantages of expanding the federal Earned Income Tax Credit to all low-wage adults who work full time — whether they have children or not and whether they marry or not.
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Civic Engagement in Camden, New Jersey
A Baseline Portrait
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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.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Post-Assistance Self-Sufficiency (PASS) Program in Riverside, California
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2007. David Navarro, Mark van Dok, and Richard Hendra.
A random assignment evaluation of a voluntary postemployment program for workers who recently left welfare shows participants had increased employment and earnings during the first two years of follow-up.
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Empirical Benchmarks for Interpreting Effect Sizes in Research
Working Paper
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2007. Carolyn J. Hill, Howard S. Bloom, Alison Rebeck Black, and Mark W. Lipsey.
No universal guideline exists for judging the practical importance of a standardized effect size, a measure of the magnitude of an intervention's effects. This working paper argues that effect sizes should be interpreted using empirical benchmarks — and presents three types in the context of education research.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from Minnesota's Tier 2 Program
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2007. Allen LeBlanc, Cynthia Miller, Karin Martinson, and Gilda Azurdia
An evaluation of a case management program for long-term welfare recipients shows little effect on participants’ involvement in program services or on their employment, earnings, or public assistance receipt during the first one-and-a-half years of follow-up.
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Investing in Parents to Invest in Children
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2007. Gordon L. Berlin.
In these remarks, delivered at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s National Summit on America’s Children on May 22, MDRC President Gordon Berlin summarizes rigorous research evidence showing that supplementing the earnings of parents helps raise families out of poverty and improves the school performance of young children.
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The Challenge of Repeating Success
in a Changing World
Final Report on the
Center for Employment Training Replication Sites
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2005. Cynthia Miller, Johannes M. Bos, Kristin E. Porter, Fannie M. Tseng, and Yasuyo Abe.
The Center for Employment Training (CET) in San Jose, California, produced large, positive employment and earnings effects for out-of-school youth in the late 1980s. However, in this replication study, even the highest-fidelity sites did not increase employment or earnings for youth over the 54-month follow-up period, despite short-term positive effects for women.
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Barriers to Employment for Out-of-School Youth
Evidence from a Sample of Recent CET Applicants
Working Paper
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2005. Cynthia Miller and Kristin E. Porter.
This working paper examines employment and earnings over a four-year period for a group of disadvantaged out-of-school youth who entered the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Training (CET) Replication Sites between 1995 and 1999. It assesses the importance of three key factors as barriers to employment: lack of a high school diploma, having children, and having an arrest record.
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Building a Culture of Evidence for Community College Student Success
Early Progress in the Achieving the Dream Initiative
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2007. Thomas Brock, Davis Jenkins, Todd Ellwein, Jennifer Miller, Susan Gooden, Kasey Martin, Casey MacGregor, and Michael Pih, with Bethany Miller and Christian Geckeler.
Achieving the Dream is a multiyear, national initiative, launched by Lumina Foundation for Education, to help community college students stay in school and succeed. The 83 participating colleges commit to collecting and analyzing data to improve student outcomes, particularly for low-income students and students of color. This baseline report describes the early progress that the first 27 colleges have made after just one year of implementation.
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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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Congressional Testimony by Gordon Berlin on Solutions to Poverty
Congressional Testimony
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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.
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Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio
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Two reports present the early results from MDRC’s evaluation of the Opening Doors programs at Lorain County Community College in Elyria, Ohio, and Owens Community College in Toledo. The two-semester programs offered enhanced advising services and a modest scholarship to low-income students to encourage them to stay in school and earn credentials.
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Subsidized Housing and Employment
Building Evidence About What Works to Improve Self-Sufficiency
Working Paper
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2007. James A. Riccio.
This working paper argues for building a stronger base of evidence in the housing-employment policy arena through an expanded use of randomized controlled trials.
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Implementation and First-Year Impacts of the UK Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration
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UK Department for Work and Pensions.
2007. Richard Dorsett, Verity Campbell-Barr, Gayle Hamilton, Lesley Hoggart, Alan Marsh, Cynthia Miller, Joan Phillips, Kathryn Ray, James A. Riccio, Sarah Rich, and Sandra Vegeris.
This report published by the UK Department for Work and Pensions presents encouraging findings on the early effects of Britain’s Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) Demonstration. Aimed at helping low-income individuals sustain employment and progress in work, ERA offers a combination of job coaching and financial incentives to participants once they are working.
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Between Welfare Reform and Reauthorization
Income Support Systems in Cuyahoga and Philadelphia, 2000 to 2005
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2007. David Seith, Sarah Rich, and Lashawn Richburg-Hayes.
This report, part of MDRC’s Project on Devolution and Urban Change, tells the story of Cleveland’s and Philadelphia’s welfare systems in the early 2000s, a time marked by an economic downturn, state budget cuts, and welfare time limits.
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Emergency Financial Aid for Community College Students
Implementation and Early Lessons from the Dreamkeepers and Angel Fund Programs
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2007. Lande Ajose, Casey MacGregor, and Leo Yan, with Michael Pih.
The report describes early findings from MDRC’s evaluation of the Dreamkeepers Emergency Financial Aid Program and the Angel Fund Program, two pilot programs for community college students who are at risk of dropping out because of unexpected financial crises.
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Enhancing Student Services at Lorain County Community College
Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio
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2007. Susan Scrivener and Jenny Au.
This report describes early results from MDRC’s evaluation of the Opening Doors program at Lorain Country Community College in Elyria, Ohio. The program provided enhanced student services and a modest scholarship to low-income students to encourage them to stay in school and earn credentials.
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Enhancing Student Services at Owens Community College
Early Results from the Opening Doors Demonstration in Ohio
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2007. Susan Scrivener and Michael Pih.
This report presents the early results from MDRC’s evaluation of the Opening Doors program at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. The two-semester program offered intensive student advising services and a modest scholarship to low-income students to encourage them to stay in school and earn credentials.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the Chicago ERA Site
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2006. Dan Bloom, Richard Hendra, and Jocelyn Page.
An evaluation of a retention and advancement program for recently employed welfare recipients shows modest increases in employment and large reductions in welfare receipt during the first two years of follow-up.
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A Vision for the Future of the Workforce Investment System
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2007. John Wallace.
In a rapidly growing low-wage labor market, the workforce investment system and the Workforce Investment Act should expand their focus to include job retention and advancement services by engaging private employers and to enhance the accessibility of work supports.
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