Given the intensive demands that collecting attendance data places on program staff, it can often be challenging to collect and might result in a fair amount of missing data, which can compromise the reliability and validity of attendance estimates. Little is known about which methods for...

This fact sheet from a large-scale, multi-year evaluation of the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) School Improvement Grants and Race to the Top programs, documents states’ capacity to support school turnaround as of spring 2012 and spring 2013.

Baby FACES, Mathematica’s descriptive study of Early Head Start, builds on the success of the flagship study of Head Start, the Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES). Baby FACES, sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and...

In this report, we describe the value-added model used as part of the state of Oklahoma’s Teacher and Leader Effectiveness Evaluation System. We estimated measures of teacher and school effectiveness based on instruction provided in the 2013–2014 school year.

Low-performing schools in rural settings can face challenges common to all struggling schools, such as low student motivation and maintaining a qualified teaching staff.

Policy interest and support for increasing the positive involvement of fathers in their children's lives has increased substantially in recent years, with a dedicated federal funding stream for responsible fatherhood programs.

States that contract with health plans to provide comprehensive Medicare and Medicaid services for dually eligible enrollees in nursing facilities can work with these plans to reduce avoidable hospitalizations.

This issue brief from Mathematica’s multi-year evaluation of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants for the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, documents states’ capacity to support school turnaround as of spring 2012 and spring 2013.

This report documents impacts on earnings and benefit outcomes during the third calendar year of implementation of the Social Security Administration's Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND). The report focuses on Stage 1, which is designed to examine how a national benefit offset would...