Social Policy Research Associates
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Evaluating the 2022-2027 Cycle of the Regional Educational Laboratories
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Regional Educational Laboratories
Contract number:
91990024Q0058
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Evaluation of Full-Service Community Schools
Children living in distressed communities face significant academic, social, and health challenges, many of which were exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Contract number:
91990020C0001
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Evaluation of Promise Neighborhoods
The Promise Neighborhoods program provides distressed communities funding to directly address student academic, social, and health needs as well as employment and other challenges that might contribute to these needs. With more than $500 million invested under Title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) since 2010, the program gives grantees the flexibility to define their Promise Neighborhood and offer a wide set of supports and services intended to improve academic outcomes
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Contract number:
919900-20-C-0001
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Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth with Disabilities
Students with disabilities continue to lag their peers in high school graduation, enrollment in postsecondary education, and employment more than a decade after the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although IDEA requires states and districts to support student efforts toward their post-high school goals, there is limited evidence about which strategies are effective. This study assesses variants of an approach that the Department has promoted &mda
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Contract number:
91990019C0078
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Assessing Evidence of Effectiveness in Adult Education: Study of Career Navigator Training
Improving the skills and career pathways of the many adults who struggle with literacy, numeracy, and English proficiency is the key goal of federal adult education policy. Title II of the 2014 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act encourages state agencies and local providers to find ways to facilitate postsecondary enrollment, credential attainment and higher earnings for the nearly one million learners who participate in adult education programs. One promising approach is providing these
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Contract number:
91990018C0057
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Evaluation of Departmentalized Instruction in Elementary Schools
Creatively redistributing existing teachers in a school may yield academic benefits for students at little additional cost. One such strategy is departmentalized instruction, where each teacher specializes in teaching one subject to multiple classes of students instead of teaching all subjects to a single class (self-contained instruction). Although common in secondary schools, departmentalization has only recently become more popular in elementary schools. This evaluation examines schools' ex
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Contract number:
ED-IES-17-C-0064
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Impact Study of Magnet Schools
Decades after the Supreme Court declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, concentration in schools by race, ethnicity, and poverty persists. The federal Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) supports districts and schools in their efforts to reduce group isolation and improve student achievement through increased school choice options for families. MSAP schools seek to attract a diverse set of students and provide high quality academic programs, typically by orga
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Contract number:
ED-IES-17-C-0066
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Impact Evaluation of Support for Principals
Principals are increasingly required to be instructional leaders, not just managers, as schools seek to improve their academic climate and performance. States and districts can provide professional development to help principals become more effective in this role, with new opportunities to use funds from the federal Title II, Part A program of the updated Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Given this recent shift in federal policy and the limited information about how to help principals i
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Contract number:
ED-IES-14-C-0028
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Evaluation of the Pell Grant Experiments Under the Experimental Sites Initiative
Federal Pell grants are considered the foundation of higher education financial aid for low-income students. However, under current rules, otherwise income-eligible students who already have a bachelor's degree (BA) or who want to enroll in short-term (less than 15 weeks and 600 hours) programs are restricted from obtaining these grants. Given unemployment rates above 8.5 percent in 2011, and reports of unfilled openings for skilled jobs in some occupations, postsecondary institutions called f
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Contract number:
ED-IES-12-C-0097
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Implementation and Impact Evaluation of Race to the Top and School Improvement Grants
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) was a $831 billion economic stimulus package that included $100 billion for states and districts to secure teachers' jobs and promote innovation in schools. Among the federal education programs that ARRA provided funding for were Race to the Top (RTT, $4 billion) and School Improvement Grants (SIG, $3 billion). RTT was a competitive discretionary grant program announced in 2009 that funded states and districts planning to implement compr
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Contract number:
ED-IES-10-C-0077
External Person
Andrew Wiegand
External Person
Leela Hebbar
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