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Brief
February 2025

Insights from Tech Training Graduates

This brief explores the job search experiences and needs of a group of Per Scholas graduates after they completed a sector-based training program.

Report
February 2025

Implementation and Early Impact Findings

This report presents early findings from a study to determine whether past effects of a program to prevent substance use in teens can be replicated in today’s context.

Issue Focus
January 2025

In 2024, MDRC posted more than 100 reports, briefs, practitioner guides, and other publications—offering research results, profiles of innovative programs, and evidence-backed advice for policymakers and practitioners. Here are 10 of the most popular.

January 2025

Hosted by Leigh Parise, MDRC’s Evidence First podcast features experts talking about the best evidence available on education and social programs that serve people with low incomes.

Issue Focus
January 2025

In 2024, MDRC experts wrote commentaries on wide variety of pressing education and social policy issues.

Infographic
December 2024

This infographic highlights findings from a meta-analysis about what components of fatherhood programs are most likely to influence fathers’ lives.

Brief
December 2024

This brief describes lessons learned about how Head Start programs participating in Head Start Connects engaged families in family support services.

Report
December 2024

A Synthesis of Two Experimental Evaluations

This report synthesizes two evaluations comparing methods of determining which incoming college students to place in developmental (remedial) courses.

Brief
December 2024

Exploring the Potential of Stress Management Workshops to Help Early Childhood Educators

Results of a study exploring the mental health, well-being, and perceptions of early care educators who participated in a series of stress management workshops.

Report
December 2024

This report describes MDRC’s evaluation of an initiative supporting interconnected programs and services for young children and their families.

Report
December 2024

Program Partners’ Views About Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities

This report describes the implementation of an initiative that aims to support interconnected programs and services for young children and their families.

Report
December 2024

Impact and Interview Findings from a Study of New Jersey’s 2017 Criminal Justice Reform

This report assesses whether New Jersey’s Criminal Justice Reform improved racial equity in the criminal legal system and made people perceive it as fairer.

Blog
December 2024

More Restrictive Conditions Fall Short of Producing Better Outcomes

This post summarizes three MDRC studies on pretrial supervision showing that more restrictive conditions do not produce better outcomes.

Brief
December 2024

A Program of the Los Angeles County Justice, Care and Opportunities Department

This brief presents a benefit-cost study of a Los Angeles program that connects people who have been involved in the legal system to community health workers.

Blog
December 2024

Lessons from Central City Concern in Oregon

This blog post describes advice from a social services organization about offering a sequence of services to individuals who are diagnosed with substance use disorders.

Blog
December 2024

A college-completion program in Minnesota is adopting work-based learning to better equip its scholars for careers after graduation.

Issue Focus
December 2024

Tips on Coaching College Students

A summary of findings from the SUCCESS evaluation—which evaluated a comprehensive approaches to student success program—and lessons on coaching students.

Report
November 2024

This report analyzes interviews with child support staff members and parents, focusing on factors that may contribute to disparities and on where there is the potential for bias.

Report
November 2024

Findings from an Evaluation of Purpose Built Communities

This study examines over a 10-year period a program model designed to transform historically disinvested neighborhoods into thriving, mixed-income communities.

Report
November 2024

Charting the Path from High School to Postsecondary Enrollment

This report explores the impacts of California Partnership Academies on students’ high school graduation, college readiness, and college enrollment.