This report provides a general overview of EPIC, compares student characteristics across the three partners, and compares the data used to determine which schools receive EPIC awards with data on all the students attending these schools.

Each year, the U.S. college system grants twice as many bachelor’s degrees to African American females as males. Large gender gaps favoring women also exist for other groups—on average, our college system awards 35 percent more B.A.s to females than males across all racial and ethnic...

A growing body of evidence suggests that low-income children's test scores drop significantly relative to their higher-income counterparts during the summer months. This study finds that a well-implemented summer learning program can improve reading test scores and increase the extent to which...

The Roads to Success program was launched in early 2005 to forge connections between students’ school experiences and their aspirations for adulthood, as an ongoing part of middle and high school. This report describes the intervention, research design, evaluation data, analysis methods, and a...

This report presents the methods used to identify effective schools in the Memphis City Schools during the second year of the project.

This report describes Mathematica's evaluation design for the Millennium Challenge Corporation's energy sector project to improve living standards and reduce poverty in Tanzania by investing in and improving energy-related infrastructure.