This fact sheet from a large-scale, multi-year evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) School Improvement Grants and Race to the Top programs, documents states’ capacity to support school turnaround as of spring 2012 and spring 2013.

This issue brief from Mathematica’s multi-year evaluation of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants for the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, documents states’ capacity to support school turnaround as of spring 2012 and spring 2013.

Notes that the VIEW program increased participants' earnings and employment and encouraged work. The findings, which are similar to those from other studies of programs that combine time limits with generous earnings disregards, also suggest that the program did not decrease TANF participation...

To become successful learners, students need to comprehend what they read. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds, in particular, may have difficulty comprehending text because they often lack general vocabulary and strategies for organizing information and gleaning knowledge from text. This...

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

This article presents evidence from a large-scale randomized controlled trial of the effects of four supplemental reading comprehension curricula (Project CRISS, ReadAbout, Read for Real, and Reading for Knowledge). The impact analyses in the study's first year revealed a statistically...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of four supplemental reading comprehension programs in helping disadvantaged fifth graders improve reading comprehension. The study, supported by the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education and conducted over the course of two...

The first-year findings reveal that while the 21st Century Community Learning Centers changed where and with whom students spent some of their after-school time and increased parental involvement, they had limited influence on academic performance, no influence on feelings of safety or on the...