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MIECHV Reauthorization: Recommendations from Research

Apr 17, 2015

Funding for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program was extended through fiscal year 2017, without policy changes. If Congress decides to make policy changes to MIECHV in the future, research on home visiting programs can inform recommendations.
Report

Teacher Development Program Shows Early Signs of Success

Aug 11, 2015

A program that provides middle-career teachers with two years of professional development, including formal training sessions and meetings with a leadership coach, is showing promising results on student achievement. Also, program participants are mentoring other teachers.

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Journal Article

Implementing Evidence-Based Practices Effectively: A Practical Guide

This policy memo prepared for the European Platform for Investing in Children, provides a short resource guide for child-serving organisations to support effective implementation of evidence-based practices.

Aug 16, 2018
Report

How Do Teachers Respond to Feedback?

Education leaders across the United States have revised their policies in an effort to enhance the quality of teacher evaluation measures and instructional practices. A unique survey asked teachers about their perceptions of the feedback they receive and the evaluation systems at their schools.

Jul 9, 2018
Journal Article

Opening School-Based Health Clinics Can Lower Teacher Health Costs

Opening onsite health clinics to provide comprehensive primary care to teachers and their families can lower a school district's health care costs and decrease teacher absenteeism.

Jul 3, 2018
Journal Article

Education for Incarcerated Juveniles: A Meta-Analysis

Though the evidence base about what works in juvenile correctional education remains incomplete, the existing research does suggest promising directions for future programmatic investments.

Jul 3, 2018
Journal Article

Does Providing Inmates with Education Improve Postrelease Outcomes? A Meta-Analysis of Correctional Education Programs in the United States

Meta-analysis demonstrates the potential value in providing inmates with educational opportunities while they serve their sentences.

Jul 3, 2018
Dissertation

Dissertation

Strengthening Federal Capacity to Conduct Evaluations to Inform Future R&D Program Planning

This dissertation identifies for strengthening the Federal Government's capacity to evaluate its research and development programs using insights identified from philanthropic foundations.

Jun 21, 2018
Report

A Social Network Analysis and Qualitative Assessment of Partnerships for Million Hearts®

This report examines the partnerships developed in Million Hearts, defines the practices and approaches to cardiovascular disease prevention that occurred as a result of the program, and provides suggestions for future Million Hearts activities.

Jun 20, 2018
Research Brief

Understanding How the Million Hearts Initiative Is Working to Address Cardiovascular Disease

The Million Hearts initiative has been successful at the national level in bringing stakeholders together to address cardiovascular disease, but the network could be enhanced and the level of membership commitment and activity could be strengthened.

Jun 20, 2018
Report

Evaluation of the Return-to-Work Fund in California's Workers' Compensation System: Performance to Date and Options for Modification

California's Return-to-Work Supplement Program provides a $5,000 payment to some workers who cannot return to work after a permanently disabling workplace injury. RAND researchers evaluated program performance and identified options for improvement.

Jun 20, 2018
Infographic

Infographic

Enriching Kids: The Benefits of Using Public Funds to Pay for Out-of-School (OST) Time Programs

This infographic provides an overview of the opportunity and attainment gaps between high-and low-income students and how public funding for after-school programs can help address these gaps.

May 31, 2018
Commentary

The Case for Corequisites: What Are the Ingredients of Success?

More than two-thirds of community college students and 40 percent of four-year college students take at least one developmental education course. States and colleges across the United States are experimenting with innovative approaches to developmental education to improve graduation rates for struggling students.

May 23, 2018
Journal Article

Journal Article

Boosting School Readiness: Should Preschool Teachers Target Skills or the Whole Child?

Children gain more cognitive skills in early childhood programs that provide supplemental academic instruction in mathematics and literacy content for a small portion of the day, compared with programs that take an exclusive whole-child approach.

May 22, 2018
Report

Report

Charting Progress: U.S. Military Non-Medical Counseling Programs

This chartbook summarizes findings from an evaluation of two programs offered by the DoD that provide solution-focused counseling for common personal and family issues to members of the active and reserve components of the U.S. military and their families.

Apr 27, 2018
Journal Article

Journal Article

Standards of Evidence for Conducting and Reporting Economic Evaluations in Prevention Science

This article reports the findings of Society for Prevention Research's deliberations, proposes standards for economic analyses, and identifies opportunities for future prevention science.

Apr 26, 2018
Report

Report

System change through situated learning: Pre-evaluation of the Health Innovation Network's Communities of Practice

This scoping study assessed the feasibility of, and best approach to, an evaluation of Communities of Practice, self-organising and self-governing groups of people who strive to be better practitioners by sharing new knowledge and practices.

Mar 20, 2018
News Release

News Release

Evaluation of Mental Health Service Act in L.A. County Shows Services Reaching Those in Need

Funding from California's special tax for mental health services has allowed Los Angeles County to reach the seriously mentally ill and those at risk for mental illness with services and prevention efforts, lowering both homelessness and the need for psychiatric hospitalizations, while improving employment and wellbeing.

Mar 13, 2018
Research Brief

The Mental Health Services Act in Los Angeles County: Evaluating Program Reach and Outcomes

RAND researchers examined the geographic and demographic reach of Mental Health Services Act-funded activities in Los Angeles County and assessed their impact on clients.

Mar 13, 2018
Report

Evaluation of Mental Health Service Act in L.A. County Shows Services Reaching Those in Need

Funding from California's special tax for mental health services has allowed Los Angeles County to help people with serious mental illness and those at risk. These efforts have lowered homelessness and the need for psychiatric hospitalizations, while improving employment and well-being.

Mar 13, 2018
Commentary

Ready, Set, College

With the nation investing at least $1 billion a year in developmental education, states and colleges are rethinking their approaches to reform. Are states moving too fast to mandate developmental education policy? It depends on the policy.

Mar 5, 2018
Report

Designing and Implementing Corequisite Models of Developmental Education: Findings from Texas Community Colleges

This report describes the implementation of integrated reading and writing corequisites -- a reform to developmental education that accelerates students into college-level courses, while providing academic support -- in Texas community colleges.

Feb 12, 2018

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