Methodology
July, 2004
Relying on 427 classroom observations conducted over a three-year period, this study traces changes in teachers’ instructional practices in the First Things First schools.
Publications
Report
Context, Components, and Initial Impacts on Ninth-Grade Students’ Engagement and Performance
June, 2004
An examination of the implementation and early impacts of Talent Development, a whole-school reform initiative, found that the model produced substantial gains in ninth-grade students’ course completion and promotion rates.
Report
March, 2004
Career Academies produced substantial and sustained improvements in earnings of young men after high school, without limiting opportunities to attend college.
High School Reform Conference Series
January, 2004
How can evidence-based research help improve low-performing high schools? This report summarizes the first in a series of conferences designed to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to address that question.
Report
Final Lessons from Parents’ Fair Share
November, 2001
Fathers provide important financial and emotional support to their children. Yet low-income noncustodial fathers, with low wages and high rates of joblessness, often do not fulfill their parenting roles. The child support system has not traditionally helped these men to do so, since its focus has been on securing financial support from fathers who can afford to pay.