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Methodology

Conducting Classroom Observations in First Things First Schools

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.

Report

The Talent Development High School Model

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

Career Academies: Impacts on Work and Educational Attainment

March, 2004

Career Academies produced substantial and sustained improvements in earnings of young men after high school, without limiting opportunities to attend college.

Using Rigorous Evidence to Improve Policy and Practice

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

Scaling Up First Things First

Findings from the First Implementation Year

December, 2003

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.

Brief

Welfare Reform, Work, and Child Care

The Role of Informal Care in the Lives of Low-Income Women and Children

October, 2003

Drawing on ethnographic interviews, this policy brief describes the patchwork child care arrangements made by low-income parents and discusses implications for policies that would promote the dual objectives of child well-being and parental employment.

Working Paper

The Effects of Welfare Policy on Child Care Decisions

Evidence from Ten Experimental Welfare-to-Work Programs

June, 2003
Working Paper

Child Care and Employment

Evidence from Random Assignment Studies of Welfare and Work Programs

June, 2003
Working Paper

"Making A Way Out of No Way"

How Mothers Meet Basic Family Needs While Moving from Welfare to Work

April, 2003