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Janet Quint
Senior Associate
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Professional Development for Teachers
What Two Rigorous Studies Tell Us
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2011. Janet Quint.
This synthesis reviews findings from two rigorous, large-scale evaluations — the Professional Development in Reading Study and the Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study. Both interventions had only limited effects on teachers’ knowledge and instruction and no impacts on students’ test scores. The report ends with suggestions about how professional development might be improved to achieve better results.
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Scaling Up Is Hard to Do
Progress and Challenges During the First Year of the Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative
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2011. Janet Quint, D. Crystal Byndloss, Herbert Collado, Alissa Gardenhire, Asya Magazinnik, Genevieve Orr, Rashida Welbeck, and Shanna S. Jaggars.
This report examines the Achieving the Dream Developmental Education Initiative, an effort to expand promising developmental education interventions in 15 community colleges. During the 2009-2010 academic year, the colleges made progress and encountered challenges in implementing reform strategies in four key areas: changes in curriculum and instruction, academic and student supports, institutionwide policy changes, and precollege interventions.
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New York City’s Changing High School Landscape
High Schools and Their Characteristics, 2002-2008
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2010. Janet C. Quint, Janell K. Smith, Rebecca Unterman, and Alma E. Moedano, with Corinne M. Herlihy, Saskia Levy Thompson, and Collin F. Payne.
This report examines the sweeping transformation of New York City’s public high school system — the nation’s largest — during the first decade of the twenty-first century, when nearly 200 new small high schools were created. Two companion reports focus on the role of intermediaries in this reform effort and provide case studies of six schools.
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Using Student Data to Improve Teaching and Learning
Findings from an Evaluation of the Formative Assessments of Student Thinking in Reading (FAST-R) Program in Boston Elementary Schools
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2008. Janet C. Quint, Susan Sepanik, and Janell K. Smith
This report contains findings from an evaluation of a program in the Boston Public Schools that seeks to improve reading instruction and student learning through one type of data-driven instruction. The program provides teachers with formative assessments that they can use to measure what students do and do not know, along with professional development on how to understand and use the data generated by those assessments. The study looks at FAST-R’s effects on reading scores among third- and fourth-graders.
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Relationships, Rigor, and Readiness
Strategies for Improving High Schools
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2008. Janet Quint, Saskia Levy Thompson, and Margaret Bald, with Julia Bernstein and Laura Sztejnberg.
This report offers lessons from a conference sponsored by MDRC, the Council of the Great City Schools, and the National High School Alliance, which brought together leaders from 22 midsize school districts to describe their reform initiatives and to discuss ways in which research and evaluation can inform and complement school change.
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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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Emerging Evidence on Improving High School Student Achievement and Graduation Rates
The Effects of Four Popular Improvement Programs
Policy Brief
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National High School Center.
2006. Corinne M. Herlihy and Janet Quint.
This research brief, published by the National High School Center, draws on findings from four studies by MDRC that shed light on both the nature of the problems found in low-performing high schools and on the effectiveness of promising interventions that attempt to address those problems.
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Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform
Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models
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2006. Janet Quint.
Recent MDRC evaluations of three high school reform models — Career Academies, First Things First, and Talent Development — offer hope that comprehensive programs can improve low-performing high schools. This research synthesis for policymakers and practitioners offers practical lessons for creating personalized learning environments, helping struggling freshmen, improving instruction, preparing students for the world beyond high school, and stimulating change in overstressed high schools.
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Doing What Counts
Design Principles for a Study on Teacher Incentives
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2006. Jason C. Snipes, Janet C. Quint, Shelley Rappaport, and Lynne Steuerle Schofield.
This paper, produced by MDRC and the Laboratory for Student Success at Temple University, describes design principles for a study about the use of incentives to recruit and retain high-quality teachers for underperforming schools.
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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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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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Scaling Up First Things First
Site Selection and the Planning Year
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2002. Janet C. Quint.
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An Evaluability Assessment of the Toyota Families in Schools Program
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2001. Janet Quint with Anne Sweeney.
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Post-TANF Food Stamp and Medicaid Benefits
Factors That Aid or Impede Their Receipt
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2001. Janet Quint, Rebecca Widom with Lindsay Moore.
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Big Cities and Welfare Reform
Early Implementation and Ethnographic Findings from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change
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1999. Janet Quint, Kathryn Edin, Maria L. Buck, Barbara Fink, Yolanda C. Padilla, Olis Simmons-Hewitt, Mary Eustace Valmont with Stan L. Bowie, Earl S. Johnson, Jill E. Korbin, Carol Dutton Stepick, Alex Stepick, Abel Valenzuela, Jr.
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Project Transition
Testing an Intervention to Help High School Freshmen Succeed
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1999. Janet C. Quint, Cynthia Miller, Jennifer J. Pastor, Rachel E. Cytron.
Project Transition combines strategies that are becoming more common in K-12 settings across the nation: student-teacher clusters, extra time for teachers to work together, and a teacher "coach" meant to support instructional change
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New Chance
Final Report on a Comprehensive Program for Young Mothers in Poverty and Their Children
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1997. Janet C. Quint, Johannes M. Bos, Denise F. Polit.
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New Chance
Interim Findings on a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
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1994. Janet C. Quint, Denise F. Polit, Hans Bos, George Cave.
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Lives of Promise, Lives of Pain
Young Mothers After New Chance
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1994. Janet C. Quint and Judith S. Musick with Joyce A. Ladner.
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New Chance
Implementing a Comprehensive Program for Disadvantaged Young Mothers and Their Children
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1991. Janet C. Quint, Barbara L. Fink, Sharon L. Rowser.
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Career Beginnings Impact Evaluation
Findings from a Program for Disadvantaged High School Students
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1990. George Cave, Janet Quint.
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New Chance
Lessons from the Pilot Phase
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1989. Janet C. Quint, Cynthia A. Guy.
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The Challenge of Serving Teenage Mothers
Lessons from Project Redirection
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1988. Denise Polit, Janet Quint, James Riccio.
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Illinois
Final Report on Job Search and Work Experience in Cook County
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1987. Daniel Friedlander, Stephen Freedman, Gayle Hamilton, Janet Quint.
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Illinois
Interim Findings from the WIN Demonstration Program in Cook County
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1986. Janet Quint, Cynthia Guy.
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Maryland
Final Report on the Employment Initiatives Evaluation
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1985. Daniel Friedlander, Gregory Hoerz, David Long, Janet Quint with Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron.
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Arkansas
Final Report on the WORK Program in Two Counties
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1985. Daniel Friedlander, Gregory Hoerz, Janet Quint, James Riccio with Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron, David Long.
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The Challenge of Serving Pregnant and Parenting Teens
Lessons from Project Redirection
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1985. Janet Quint, James Riccio.
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Arkansas
Interim Findings from the Arkansas WIN Demonstration Program
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1984. Janet Quint with Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron.
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Building Self-Sufficiency in Pregnant and Parenting Teens
Final Implementation Report of Project Redirection
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1984. Alvia Branch, James Riccio, Janet Quint.
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Maryland
Interim Findings from the Maryland Employment Initiatives Programs
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1984. Janet Quint with Joseph Ball, Barbara Goldman, Judith Gueron, Gayle Hamilton.
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Project Redirection
Interim Report on Program Implementation
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1981. Alvia Branch, Janet Quint with Sheila Mandel, Sallie Shuping Russell.
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Tenant Management
Findings from a Three-Year Experiment in Public Housing
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1981. Mary Queeley, Janet Quint, Suzanne Trazoff.
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