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...

Recommends that an upcoming study of the effectiveness of educational technology in improving academic achievement focus on four goals: (1) defining what is meant by "educational technology," (2) deciding how to measure effectiveness, (3) clarifying what kinds of students will be studied, and...

Describes the design of an evaluation to study key outcomes for people with disabilities who participate in innovative state projects that promote employment, particularly those who receive Supplemental Security Income or Social Security Disability Insurance. The strategies involve different...

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...

Examines the experiences of families that reached the time limits in early 1998, during the first six months after their benefits ended, finding that most parents worked, and many worked steadily, but primarily in low-wage jobs. The study found almost no evidence of major hardship, such as...

Since the early 1990s, federal legislation has encouraged secondary vocational education to go beyond its traditional focus of developing narrowly defined workplace skills to a broader goal of providing career preparation. On the basis of a nationally representative sample of students who...