Examines a group of high schools that have embraced career majors as the organizing device for school improvement efforts. Focuses on why school leaders chose schoolwide career-focused education as a reform tool, how career majors have evolved in response to a broad set of objectives, and what...

Mathematica and other experts working with the BSF team are helping agencies plan targeted healthy marriage initiatives for unwed couples who are about to or who have just had a baby. These guidelines will help interested sponsors design and deliver program services. In addition, the guidelines...

This paper was prepared for Vision 2004: What Is the Future of Marriage?, a special volume published by the National Council on Family Relations in February 2004. The paper describes three studies related to the Building Strong Families (BSF) project designed to address whether interventions to...

This final report presents descriptive findings from Mathematica's study of enrollees during the two years after they entered a welfare-to-work program. Most were TANF recipients with significant barriers to employment; although most were employed at some time during the study, many faced...

Examines program start-up experiences and highlights a concern over restrictive eligibility criteria that exclude some with serious employment barriers who could benefit from welfare-to-work services.