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  Fred Doolittle
Vice President
 
     
    The Evaluation of Enhanced Academic Instruction in After-School Programs
Findings After the First Year of Implementation
    U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance
2008. Alison Rebeck Black, Fred Doolittle, Pei Zhu, Rebecca Unterman, and Jean Baldwin Grossman

This report presents one-year implementation and impact findings on two supplemental academic instruction approaches developed for after-school settings — one for math and one for reading. Compared with regular after-school programming, the supplemental math program had impacts on student SAT 10 test scores and the supplemental reading program did not — although the reading program had some effect on reading fluency.
 
    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.
 
    Striving for Student Success
The Effect of Project GRAD on High School Student Outcomes in Three Urban School Districts
    2006. Jason C. Snipes, Glee Ivory Holton, Fred Doolittle, and Laura Sztejnberg.

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 a variety of student outcomes in high schools in Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; and Columbus, Ohio.
 
    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.
 
    Working with Disadvantaged Youth
Thirty-Month Findings from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Training Replication Sites
    2003. Cynthia Miller, Johannes M. Bos, Kristin E. Porter, Fannie M. Tseng, Fred C. Doolittle, Deana N. Tanguay, Mary P. Vencill.

Efforts to replicate the experience of the Center for Employment Training in San Jose, California — a uniquely successful program that helped at-risk youth develop skills needed to compete in today’s labor market — showed mixed results.
 
    Improving the Economic and Life Outcomes of At-Risk Youth
    2003. Robert Ivry, Fred Doolittle.

 
    Foundations for Success
Case Studies of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement
    The Council of the Great City Schools.
2002. Jason Snipes, Fred Doolittle, Corinne Herlihy.

Some of the nation's fastest improving urban school systems are raising overall academic performance while reducing achievement gaps among students of different racial groups. But instead of taking a school-by-school approach, they are tackling education reform on a district wide basis.
 
    Exceptions to the Rule
The Implementation of 24-Month Time-Limit Extensions in W-2
    2001. Susan Gooden, Fred Doolittle.

 
    Matching Applicants with Services
Initial Assessments in the Milwaukee County W-2 Program
    2001. Susan Gooden, Fred Doolittle, Ben Glispie.

 
    Building the Foundation for Improved Student Performance
The Pre-Curricular Phase of Project GRAD Newark
    2000. Sandra Ham, Fred C. Doolittle, Glee Ivory Holton with Ana Maria Ventura, Rochanda Jackson.

 
    Fathers' Fair Share
Helping Poor Men Manage Child Support and Fatherhood
    Russell Sage Foundation.
1999. Earl Johnson, Ann Levine, Fred Doolittle.

 
    Building Opportunities, Enforcing Obligations
Implementation and Interim Impacts of Parents' Fair Share
    1998. Fred Doolittle, Virginia Knox, Cynthia Miller, Sharon Rowser.

 
    Working with Low-Income Cases
Lessons for the Child Support Enforcement System from Parents' Fair Share
    1998. Fred Doolittle, Suzanne Lynn.

 
    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.

 
    Low-Income Parents and the Parents' Fair Share Demonstration
An Early Qualitative Look at Low-Income Noncustodial Parents (NCPs) and How One Policy Initiative Has Attempted to Improve Their Ability to Pay Child Support
    1996. Earl Johnson, Fred Doolittle.

 
    Does Training for the Disadvantaged Work?
Evidence from the National JTPA Study
    Urban Institute.
1996. Larry L. Orr, Howard S. Bloom, Stephen H. Bell, Fred Doolittle, Winston Lin.

 
    JOBSTART
Final Report on a Program for School Dropouts
    1993. George Cave, Hans Bos, Fred Doolittle, Cyril Toussaint.

 
    A Summary of the Design and Implementation of the National JTPA Study
    1993. Fred Doolittle with Steve Bell, Howard Bloom, George Cave, James Kemple, Larry Orr, Linda Traeger, John Wallace.

 
    The National JTPA Study
Site Characteristics and Participation Patterns
    1993. James J. Kemple, Fred Doolittle, John W. Wallace.

 
    Assessing JOBSTART
Interim Impacts of a Program for School Dropouts
    1991. George Cave, Fred Doolittle.

 
    Self-Employment for Welfare Recipients
Implementation of the SEID Program
    1991. Cynthia A. Guy, Fred Doolittle, and Barbara L. Fink.

 
    Implementing The National JTPA Study
    1990. Fred Doolittle, Linda Traeger.

 
    Implementing JOBSTART
A Demonstration for School Dropouts in the JTPA System
    1989. Patricia Auspos, George Cave, Fred Doolittle, Gregory Hoerz.

 
 



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