The No Child Left Behind Act called for the U.S. Department of Education to conduct a national study of the effectiveness of educational technology. The study identified reading and mathematics software products based on prior evidence of effectiveness and other criteria and used an experimental...

A Research Report from the School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program Evaluation.

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.

Elementary students participating in the 21st Century Community Learning Centers program felt safer than students not enrolled but were more likely to engage in negative behaviors. There were few impacts on student achievement overall and no difference between the treatment and control groups on...

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...

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