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Serving Community College Students on Probation
Four-Year Findings from Chaffey College’s Opening Doors Program
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2011. Michael Weiss, Thomas Brock, Colleen Sommo, Timothy Rudd, and Mary Clair Turner.
This program included a “College Success” course and offered enhanced counseling. A change from optional to required services led to increased program participation, and the new program decreased the percentage on academic probation after the two program semesters. Nevertheless, after four years, the program had no discernible effect on academic outcomes.
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Turning the Tide
Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges
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2011. Elizabeth Zachry Rutschow, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Thomas Brock, Genevieve Orr, Oscar Cerna, Dan Cullinan, Monica Reid Kerrigan, Davis Jenkins, Susan Gooden, and Kasey Martin.
This interim report examines the experiences of the first 26 colleges to join the ambitious Achieving the Dream initiative. Launched by Lumina Foundation for Education in 2004, Achieving the Dream helps community colleges collect and analyze student performance data in order to build a “culture of evidence,” enabling the colleges to use that knowledge to develop programs to increase students’ academic success.
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Evaluating Programs for Community College Students
How Do We Know What Works?
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2010. Thomas Brock.
Prepared for the recent White House Summit on Community Colleges, this paper describes interventions with rigorous research evidence of effectiveness and offers thoughts on bringing such programs to scale. The good news is: many states and colleges are piloting reforms, and there is a growing body of evidence on strategies that work.
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Rewarding Persistence
Effects of a Performance-Based Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents
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2009. Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Thomas Brock, Allen LeBlanc, Christina Paxson, Cecilia Elena Rouse, and Lisa Barrow.
This report describes the impacts of a performance-based scholarship program with a counseling component on academic success and persistence among low-income parents. Students who participated in the program, which was operated at two New Orleans-area colleges as part of MDRC’s multisite Opening Doors demonstration, were more likely to stay in school, get higher grades, and earn more credits.
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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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Paying for Persistence
Early Results of a Louisiana Scholarship Program for Low-Income Parents Attending Community College
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2006. Thomas Brock and Lashawn Richburg-Hayes
Funded by state welfare dollars, two community colleges in the New Orleans area offered performance-based scholarships and enhanced counseling to low-income parents, as part of MDRC’s Opening Doors demonstration. These early findings show the program had significant positive effects on academic achievement and rates of retention.
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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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Welfare Reform in Miami
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2004. Thomas Brock, Isaac Kwakye, Judy C. Polyné, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, David Seith, Alex Stepick, Carol Dutton Stepick with Tara Cullen and Sarah Rich.
Welfare caseloads fell, employment increased, and social conditions generally improved in Miami-Dade County after the 1996 federal welfare reform law was passed, but the county’s welfare-to-work program was poorly implemented and unusually harsh.
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Welfare Reform in Cleveland
Implementation, Effects, and Experiences of Poor Families and Neighborhoods
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2002. Thomas Brock, Claudia Coulton, Andrew London, Denise Polit, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Ellen Scott, Nandita Verma with Isaac Kwakye, Vanessa Martin, Judy C. Polyne, David Seith.
This report from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change examines how welfare reform has played out in Ohio's Cuyahoga County, which encompasses Cleveland, based on a comprehensive body of evidence that includes administrative records, surveys, and ethnographic interviews.
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Welfare Reform and Community Colleges
A Policy and Research Context
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2002. Thomas Brock, Lisa Matus-Grossman, Gayle Hamilton.
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Readying Welfare Recipients for Work
Lessons from Four Big Cities as They Implement Welfare Reform
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2002. Thomas Brock, Laura C. Nelson, Megan Reiter.
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New Hope for People with Low Incomes
Two-Year Results of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
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1999. Johannes M. Bos, Aletha C. Huston, Robert C. Granger, Greg J. Duncan, Thomas W. Brock, Vonnie C. McLoyd with Danielle Crosby, Veronica Fellerath, Christina Gibson, Katherine Magnuson, Rashmita Mistry, Susan M. Poglinco, Jennifer Romich, Ana M. Ventura.
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Evaluating Two Welfare-to-Work Program Approaches
Two Year Findings on the Labor Force Attachment and Human Capital Development Programs in Three Sites
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1997. Gayle Hamilton, Thomas Brock, Mary Farrell, Daniel Friedlander, Kristen Harknett with JoAnna Hunter-Manns, Johanna Walter, Joanna Weisman.
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Creating New Hope
Implementation of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare
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1997. Thomas Brock, Fred Doolittle, Veronica Fellerath, Michael Wiseman with David Greenberg and Robinson Hollister, Jr.
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The JOBS Evaluation
Early Lessons from Seven Sites
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Education.
1994. Gayle Hamilton, Thomas Brock with Jeffrey Farkas.
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Unpaid Work Experience for Welfare Recipients
Findings and Lessons from MDRC Research
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1993. Thomas Brock, David Butler, and David Long.
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