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Wrabel, Stephani L.; Bush-Mecenas, Susan; Woo, Ashley – RAND Corporation, 2021
The U.S. Department of Education funds various types of technical assistance centers with the goal of providing the expertise and resources needed by state education agencies (SEAs), regional education agencies, and local education agencies (LEAs) to effectively implement federal education programs. Given the complexity of technical assistance for…
Descriptors: School Safety, Technical Assistance, School Districts, Federal Programs
MDRC, 2018
This issue brief describes the programs and systems of the MDRC Center for Data Insights. Ranging from simple descriptive summaries to advanced machine learning algorithms, the Center's eight current projects aim to use institutions' increasingly rich data to provide new insights that can help refine and target their client's services: (1)…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Federal Programs, Welfare Services, State Aid
Council of the Great City Schools, 2015
This report measures trends in performance among urban schools receiving federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) awards as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The Council of the Great City Schools aims to document how member districts of the Council of the Great City Schools implemented SIG and specifically what…
Descriptors: Grants, Federal Legislation, Federal Aid, Educational Improvement
Hulleman, Chris S.; Cordray, David S. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
This paper outlines a method of determining the achieved relative strength (ARS) of an intervention by calculating the extent to which core intervention components are present in both the treatment and control condition. Using data from several examples the authors demonstrate how to calculate ARS indices, and subsequently how to incorporate them…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Instruction, Sample Size, Data Collection