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...

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...

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...