This brief discusses the characteristics of faith community liaison functions in eight case-study sites and highlights model practices they undertook to further the goals of Charitable Choice and federal and state faith-based and community initiatives more broadly.

Through the Partnerships in Character Education Program, the federal government distributes about $25 million annually to state and local education agencies for character education programs. This report documents the constructs measured in studies of 36 randomly selected programs. It also...

This final report discusses the faith community liaisons’ work in eight case-study sites—Alabama, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, and Virginia—where evidence indicated effectiveness in Charitable Choice implementation along a range...

This report presents findings from a targeted document review and expert interviews conducted as part of the Student Segmentation Initiative, which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Postsecondary Success strategy. The review addresses three questions relevant to the...

In an environment of finite public and private resources, decision makers want to understand interactions between public and private-sector philanthropic efforts and learn how to promote effective collaborations. This study examined how these efforts can complement each other to improve...

Through the Partnerships in Character Education Program, the federal government distributes about $25 million annually to state and local education agencies for character education programs. This report documents the constructs measured in studies of 36 randomly selected programs. It also...

The federal Parent Loans for Undergraduate Students (PLUS) program provides loans to parents of dependent undergraduate students to help pay for education expenses. To bring the standards in line with those used by banks, the U.S. Department of Education tightened the credit standards for PLUS...

Many education policy experts have raised concerns that disadvantaged students, who are often concentrated in low-performing schools, do not have the same access to highly effective teachers as other students. To address this issue, the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education...

Many education policy experts have raised concerns that disadvantaged students do not have the same access to highly effective teachers as other students. To address this issue, IES sponsored an evaluation of an intervention known to study participants as the Talent Transfer Initiative (TTI)....