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Nicholas Ainsworth; Christopher Cleveland; Andrew Penner – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Currently 15 percent of U.S. students receive special education services, a widespread intensive intervention with variable effects on students. Spurred by changes in federal policy, many states and districts have begun adopting the Response to Intervention (RTI) approach to identifying students to receive special education services. RTI seeks to…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Disability Identification, Special Education, Program Effectiveness
John F. Pane; Christopher Joseph Doss; Ivy Todd; Dorothy Seaman – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Zearn Math is a popular software platform for K-8 mathematics learning, designed to enable all students to successfully access grade-level content. RAND researchers collaborated with Zearn, the product's developer, to design this evaluation. Then RAND conducted the study independently, randomly assigning 64 schools in an urban Texas district to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5
Daniela Alvarez-Vargas; Sirui Wan; Lynn S. Fuchs; Alice Klein; Drew H. Bailey – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
Despite policy relevance, longer-term evaluations of educational interventions are relatively rare. A common approach to this problem has been to rely on longitudinal research to determine targets for intervention by looking at the correlation between children's early skills (e.g., preschool numeracy) and medium-term outcomes (e.g., first-grade…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Bias, Skill Development, Intervention
Tyler W. Watts; Greg J. Duncan; Mariela Rivas – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
We present a reanalysis of the Tennessee Voluntary Prekindergarten Program (TNVPK), a state-funded program designed to promote the school readiness of 4-year-olds from low-income families. Oversubscribed programs used a lottery to randomly assign prospective enrollees a chance to attend TNVPK. We found that assignment to the program had largely…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, School Readiness, Kindergarten, Low Income Students
Tolani Britton; Birunda Chelliah; Millie Symns; Vandeen Campbell – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
Research suggests that earning college credits in high school increases the likelihood of postsecondary progress and graduation. In this study, we measure the impact of dual enrollment in high school and college courses through the College Now (CN) program on college enrollment for students in New York City. We use a regression discontinuity…
Descriptors: High School Students, Dual Enrollment, Access to Education, College Enrollment