This article examines the availability of child care in outpatient substance abuse treatment facilities and whether certain facility characteristics were associated with child care availability. Using data from the 2008 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services, 6.5 percent of...

Nonresponse weighting is a common method for handling unit nonresponse in surveys and is aimed at reducing nonresponse bias. Because the method can be accompanied by an increase in variance, the efficacy of weighting adjustments is often seen as a bias-variance trade-off. This view is an...

Presented at Conference of Statistics and Operations Research of North Portugal and the Galicia region held at the University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.

Presented at Conference of Statistics and Operations Research of North Portugal and the Galicia region held at the University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal.

This report details findings from an experimental evaluation of four widely used programs for elementary school students with reading problems—Corrective Reading, Failure Free Reading, Spell Read P.A.T., and Wilson Reading. Conducted just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny...

Presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, Salt Lake City, UT.

This report presents interim findings from the Power4Kids evaluation. Conducted just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, the evaluation is assessing the effectiveness of either substantial parts or all of four widely used programs for elementary school students...

This report presents interim findings from the Power4Kids evaluation. Conducted just outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, the evaluation is assessing the effectiveness of either substantial parts or all of four widely used programs for elementary school students...

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...