The Evaluation Highlight focuses on how six States—Alaska, Idaho, Massachusetts, Oregon, Utah, and West Virginia—are using grant funds to support practices’ use of care coordinators by providing training, technical assistance, and/or funding as practices implement...

Using the infrastructure of a national welfare program we implemented the integrated early child development intervention on a large scale and showed its potential for improving children’s cognitive development. We found no effect of supplementation on developmental or health outcomes....

In 2008, Congress created the Teacher Quality Partnership Grant Program to fund alternative training programs that draw highly qualified teachers to high-need schools. Funded under this grant, teaching residency programs (TRPs) are designed to attract new teachers to the profession. The programs...

This issue brief from Mathematica’s multi-year evaluation of SIG for the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, sheds light on which individual SIG practices (and what combinations of practices) low-performing schools adopted.

This guide offers tips and tools for making materials, including presentations, websites, and multimedia products, accessible. It is intended for those who have a basic understanding of the 508 process. The guide was prepared for the Institute of Education Sciences’ Regional Education...

A growing focus on turning around the nation’s struggling schools has led the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to invest heavily in grants to states, including the School Improvement Grant (SIG) and Race to the Top (RTT) programs. Mathematica collected and compared data from...

Conducted as part of the Center of Excellence in Research on Disability Services and Care Coordination and Integration project, this study examined the effects of the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) on Medicare and Medicaid expenditures, use of nursing home services, and...

This issue brief highlights the communications strategies that the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s state-based Finish Line grantees in Colorado, Ohio, and Wisconsin are using to keep children’s health coverage on their state’s policy agendas.

This issue brief from Mathematica’s multi-year evaluation of SIG for the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, sheds light on which individual SIG practices (and what combinations of practices) low-performing schools adopted.

This is the first of four planned reports from a multiyear study focusing on the Teacher Incentive Fund grants awarded in 2010. It examines grantees’ implementation experiences and intermediate educator outcomes near the end of the first year of program implementation, before the first...