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Sepanik, Susan; Safran, Stephanie; Saco, Larissa – MDRC, 2018
In the United States today, more jobs than ever before require at least some postsecondary education. Yet too many young adults are either not enrolling or not succeeding in college. This scenario exists across many different types of communities, but schools in rural areas, particularly those with large populations of low-income students, face…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Rural Schools, Alignment (Education), Public Schools
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Linden, Leigh L. – Human Development Network Education, 2009
This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools and 5,201 children. Overall, the program seems to have…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers