Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant and school demographics, services offered, and performance outcomes, using 1999-2000 performance reports submitted by 355 projects serving over 300,000 participants. Notes that 97 percent of middle school participants and 95...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant and school demographics, services offered, and performance outcomes, using 1998-1999 performance reports submitted by 355 projects serving over 300,000 participants. Notes that 52 percent of participants continued from a...

Provides guidance on key issues affecting the operations of this scholarship program designed to encourage undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in biomedical research. Shows how using disadvantaged background alone as an eligibility criterion cannot increase...

Provides a comprehensive profile of the program, including participant demographics, services provided, and performance outcomes, using data from 1999-2000. Notes that 57 percent of college-ready participants were admitted to a postsecondary institution, and 56 percent of those who dropped out...

Summarizes lessons learned for stations, partnerships, and outreach from an ongoing five-year evaluation of <I>Ready To Learn</I>, a Public Broadcasting Service and U.S. Department of Education initiative to help enhance children’s readiness for school. Stations need to be committed to the program...</i>

Summarizes lessons learned for stations, partnerships, and outreach from an ongoing five-year evaluation of Ready To Learn, a Public Broadcasting Service and U.S. Department of Education initiative to help enhance children’s readiness for school. Stations need to be committed to the...

Provides guidance on key issues affecting the operations of this scholarship program designed to encourage undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue careers in biomedical research. Shows how using disadvantaged background alone as an eligibility criterion cannot increase...

Read the final report from a large-scale, rigorous study examining how four math curricula affect achievement across two years—from first through second grades. The curricula were (1) Investigations in Number, Data, and Space; (2) Math Expressions; (3) Saxon Math; and (4) Scott...

This appendix provides the details that underlie the analyses reported in the evaluation brief, “After Two Years, Three Elementary Math Curricula Outperform a Fourth.†The details are organized in six sections: Study Curricula and Design (Section A), Data Collection (Section B),...