Examines a statewide program that uses performance-based contracting to provide pre- and postemployment services to TANF recipients in Pennsylvania, finding that referrals to the program have been low where caseloads have dropped precipitously and that performance-based contracting has...

New data on Medicaid prescription drug use and reimbursement in 1999, prepared by Mathematica for the 39;47, provide a tool states can use to identify potential problems in their Medicaid prescription drug programs and explore solutions. The data are organized into uniformly formatted tables for...

Updates a 1996 case study of Medicaid managed care initiatives in Texas, finding that the state has made progress in rolling out its program, but the conversion has taken longer than expected. Furthermore, major issues have arisen in each county, partly because of the uniqueness of each local...

For randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of education interventions, estimates of associations between student and mediating teacher practice outcomes can help examine the extent to which the data support the study's conceptual model. They can also identify mediators most associated with student...

This paper explores how the design features of curriculum materials might influence potential opportunities to learn and student outcomes through a comparative, documentary analysis of four mathematics curricula commonly used in the United States.

Discusses the four elements of an experimental design: 1) who participates, 2) experimental treatments, 3) the number of subjects and their allocation, and 4) experiment location and conditions. Also considers difficulties related to random assignment and describes experimental operations.