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Susan Scrivener
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Facilitating Postsecondary Education and Training for TANF Recipients
Policy Brief
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Urban Institute.
2012. Gayle Hamilton and Susan Scrivener.
This policy brief, developed by the Urban Institute for the federal Administration for Children and Families, summarizes research on strategies that can increase TANF recipients’ and other low-income adults’ engagement and persistence in postsecondary education and training and boost their earnings.
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Opening Doors to Student Success
A Synthesis of Findings from an Evaluation at Six Community Colleges
Policy Brief
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2011. Susan Scrivener and Erin Coghlan.
MDRC’s Opening Doors Demonstration, launched in 2003 with six community colleges, provides some of the first rigorous evidence that a range of interventions can improve educational outcomes for community college students. This 12-page policy brief describes the strategies tested, discusses the results, and offers suggestions to policymakers and practitioners for moving forward.
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More Guidance, Better Results?
Three-Year Effects of an Enhanced Student Services Program at Two Community Colleges
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2009. Susan Scrivener and Michael J. Weiss, with Jedediah J. Teres.
In this program, low-income students received enhanced student services and were eligible for a modest stipend for two semesters. The program improved academic outcomes in the second semester and registration in the semester after that, but these effects did not persist in subsequent semesters.
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Getting Back on Track
Effects of a Community College Program for Probationary Students
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2009. Susan Scrivener, Colleen Sommo, and Herbert Collado.
Rates of graduation and degree completion at community colleges remain distressingly low. This report evaluates two versions of a program designed to help probationary students at community college succeed in school. One version increased the average number of credits earned, the proportion of students who earned a grade point average of “C” or higher, and the proportion who moved off probation.
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A Good Start
Two-Year Effects of a Freshmen Learning Community Program at Kingsborough Community College
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2008. Susan Scrivener, Dan Bloom, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Colleen Sommo, with Jenny Au, Jedediah J. Teres, and Susan Yeh.
Freshmen in a “learning community” at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, NY, moved more quickly through developmental English requirements, took and passed more courses, and earned more credits in their first semester than students in a control group. Two years later, they were also somewhat more likely to be enrolled in college.
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The Employment Retention and Advancement Project
Results from the South Carolina ERA Site
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2005. Susan Scrivener, Gilda Azurdia, and Jocelyn Page.
An MDRC evaluation of Moving Up, a program in South Carolina that aimed to help former welfare recipients obtain jobs, work more steadily, and move up in the labor market, found that the program had little effect on employment rates, earnings, employment retention, or advancement.
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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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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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WRP
Final Report on Vermont's Welfare Restructuring Project
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2002. Susan Scrivener, Richard Hendra, Cindy Redcross,Dan Bloom, Charles Michalopoulos, Johanna Walter.
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Improving Basic Skills
The Effects of Adult Education in Welfare-to-Work Programs
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U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
2002. Johannes M. Bos, Susan Scrivener, Jason Snipes, Gayle Hamilton with Christine Schwartz, Johanna Walter.
Since the early 1980s, welfare policymakers and program operators have debated the role of adult education in program strategies to help welfare recipients make the transition from welfare to work. This report addresses key questions about how welfare-to-work programs that emphasize adult education activities affect the educational and economic outcomes of welfare recipients.
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Jobs First
Final Report on Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
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2002. Dan Bloom, Susan Scrivener, Charles Michalopoulos, Pamela Morris, Richard Hendra, Diana Adams-Ciardullo, Johanna Walter with Wanda Vargas.
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Evaluating Two Approaches to Case Management
Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Three-Year Impacts of the Columbus Welfare-to-Work Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2001. Susan Scrivener, Johanna Walter with Thomas Brock, Gayle Hamilton.
This report, from the National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies, examines the relative effectiveness of traditional versus integrated case-management approaches in welfare-to-work programs.
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The Family Transition Program
Final Report on Florida's Initial Time-Limited Welfare Program
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2000. Dan Bloom, James J. Kemple, Pamela Morris, Susan Scrivener, Nandita Verma,
Richard Hendra with Diana Adams-Ciardullo, David Seith, Johanna Walter.
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Oklahoma City's ET & E Program
Two-Year Implementation, Participation, Cost, and Impact Findings
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
2000. Laura Storto, Gayle Hamilton, Christine Schwartz, Susan Scrivener.
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Jobs First
Implementation and Early Impacts of Connecticut's Welfare Reform Initiative
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2000. Dan Bloom, Laura Melton, Charles Michalopoulos, Susan Scrivener, Johanna Walter.
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Promoting Participation
How to Increase Involvement in Welfare-to-Work Activities
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1999. Gayle Hamilton, Susan Scrivener.
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Implementation, Participation Patterns, Costs, and Two-Year Impacts of the Portland (Oregon) Welfare-to-Work Program
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1998. Susan Scrivener, Gayle Hamilton, Mary Farrell, Stephen Freedman, Daniel Friedlander, Marisa Mitchell, Jodi Nudelman, Christine Schwartz.
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