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Paying for Persistence: A Unique Scholarship Program to Increase Student Success at Community Colleges
In this seven-minute video, MDRC researcher Lashawn Richburg-Hayes summarizes promising findings about a performance-based scholarship that boosted academic achievement and retention rates at two New Orleans-area community colleges.
Alternate QuickTime Version
Listed: July 08, 2007
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Making Progress Toward Graduation: Evidence from the Talent Development High School Project
MDRC’s study of Talent Development, a program meant to lower dropout rates and increase academic success in low-performing high schools, produced encouraging results. In this seven-minute video, researcher Corinne Herlihy summarizes the findings.
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Listed: April 16, 2007
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Promoting Work in Public Housing
The findings from a long-term study of Jobs-Plus — an employment program that substantially increased the earnings of people in some of the nation’s poorest urban public housing developments — are summarized in a short video by Jim Riccio, director of research for the study.
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Listed: November 11, 2005
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Supplementing the Earnings of Low-Wage Workers: The Impacts on Adults
Policies that supplement the earnings of welfare recipients and other low-wage workers increase work, raise incomes, reduce poverty, and improve the well-being of young children.
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Listed: February 01, 2005
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Career-Related Experiences in High School Can Help Students Earn More Later
Career Academies, a high school reform initiative, produced large, long-term increases in the earnings of young men. This short video summarizes the latest findings.
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Listed: July 15, 2004
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Effective Ways to Move Welfare Recipients into Work
The most effective strategy for increasing welfare recipients’ employment and earnings is neither to help them find jobs first nor to encourage them to enroll in education and training programs first. Find out what works best in this seven-minute video presentation, which summarizes the findings from 16 years of rigorous research in sites across the country.
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Listed: February 26, 2004
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Closing the Education Achievement Gap
Presenting insights from an exploratory investigation of successful districtwide school reforms, this seven-minute video outlines how public school systems in four big cities reduced ethnic and racial disparities in academic achievement while raising student performance overall.
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Listed: July 25, 2003
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Impacts of Welfare-to-Work Programs on Children
Drawing from some of MDRC’s most consequential recent research results, this five-minute video describes how different welfare reform strategies affect the well-being of children and adolescents.
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Listed: May 15, 2003
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