Describes the program, framework and design for the national evaluation, and data and methods to be used in the implementation and impact studies.

Mathematica's latest report shows that 21st Century after-school programs, which currently spend $1 billion a year in federal funding, changed where and with whom students spent some of their after-school time. But our analysis also reveals that programs had only limited influence on academic...

This article examines how educators can more effectively engage with researchers to advance practice, using the What Works Clearinghouse and other sources of research findings as a base.

Presentation at the Dropouts in America conference, Harvard University, January 2001. Argues that we do not yet have a menu of program options for helping students at risk of dropping out and suggests a way to identify approaches that program developers can use while efforts to develop a...

This paper presents evidence on after-school programs’ effects on behavior from the national evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education’s 21st Century Community Learning Centers after-school program. Findings come from both of the study’s components: (1) an elementary-school component...

This final report from Mathematica’s congressionally mandated study of educational technology presents effects for the 2005-2006 school year for 10 computer-based reading and math products. Teacher experience using the software was not systematically related to changes in effects between...

This article presents evidence from the elementary school component of Mathematica’s national evaluation of the 21st Century Community Learning Center afterschool programs. The findings indicate that the programs affected the supervision students received after school, with parents less...

These remarks, presented at the Brookings Institution's Stakeholder Forum on After-School Programs, reflect on lessons from the 21st Century Community Learning Centers study that can benefit future education evaluations. Specifically, the author calls for consistent weighting of the evidence,...