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    The Many Benefits of Mixed-Methods Evaluations of Social Programs

    A Q&A with MDRC Vice President Virginia Knox

    Ramon Robinson of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management interviewed MDRC Vice President Virginia Knox about the role of mixed-methods research in evaluating social programs and about her vision for the methodology.

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    A Path from Access to Success

    Interim Findings from the Detroit Promise Path Evaluation

    The Detroit Promise allows the city’s high school graduates to attend local colleges tuition-free. To that scholarship the Detroit Promise Path adds campus coaches, monthly financial support, enhanced summer engagement, and messages informed by behavioral science. Interim findings about persistence in school, full-time enrollment, and credit accumulation are all positive.

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    A Q&A with Delia Kimbrel, 2012 MDRC Doctoral Fellow

    In a new feature — Where Are They Now? — Delia Kimbrel, Director of Research and Analysis at ImpactTulsa, reflects on her experience as a doctoral fellow in MDRC’s Judith Gueron Fund Minority Scholars Program and what it meant for her career.

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  1. William Corrin Named Director of MDRC’s K-12 Education Policy Area
  2. 18 and On Your Own: A New Way to Ease the Transition From Foster Care
  3. ‘I Don’t Want to See Him Fail’: A Firm Takes a Chance on Ex-Inmates
  4. Register for the June 12 Webinar, “The Next Generation of PerformanceStat,” Featuring MDRC’s Melissa Wavelet
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MDRC is committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult problems facing the nation — from reducing poverty and bolstering economic self-sufficiency to improving public education and college graduation rates. We design promising new interventions, evaluate existing programs using the highest research standards, and provide technical assistance to build better programs and deliver effective interventions at scale.

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