State assessments are increasingly used as outcome measures for education evaluations, and such evaluations generally use pretest scores as control variables. The correlation between the pretest and outcome (posttest) measures is a factor in determining, among other things, a study's statistical...

Programs to help hard-to-employ Americans move into jobs and become self-sufficient have grown increasingly important in recent years. This report examines the Regional Service Centers and Transitional Work Corporation programs, two different components of the welfare-to-work strategy in...

This final report presents descriptive findings from Mathematica's study of enrollees during the two years after they entered a welfare-to-work program. Most were TANF recipients with significant barriers to employment; although most were employed at some time during the study, many faced...

The Focus on High Schools initiative is intended to transform Boston’s 12 comprehensive high schools into more effective institutions by breaking them down into smaller, more intimate learning communities and reforming their English and language arts programs. This report focuses on changes in...

Securing data on students’ academic achievement is typically one of the most important and costly aspects of conducting education experiments. As state assessment programs have become practically universal and more uniform in terms of grades and subjects tested, the relative appeal of using...

The Focus on High Schools initiative is intended to transform Boston’s 12 comprehensive high schools into more effective institutions by breaking them down into smaller, more intimate learning communities and reforming their English and language arts programs. This report focuses on...

Securing data on students’ academic achievement is typically one of the most important and costly aspects of conducting education experiments. As state assessment programs have become practically universal and more uniform in terms of grades and subjects tested, the relative appeal of...

Focuses on the Support Has A Rewarding Effect (SHARE) initiative operated with Welfare-to-Work grant support in the state of Washington. SHARE offered three options to noncustodial parents whose minor dependent children were receiving TANF and who were behind on their support obligations: (1)...