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Jonathan Schweig; Elaine Lin Wang; Sabrina Lee; Kata Mihaly – RAND Corporation, 2025
To assist Teach For All network partners in understanding their successes and challenge areas, RAND researchers conducted evaluations of Teach For All partner programs in two developing countries. The first evaluation examined Teach For Nigeria. In the second evaluation (the focus of this brief), RAND researchers conducted a one-year mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Child Development, Teacher Effectiveness
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Jonathan Schweig; Elaine Lin Wang; Sabrina Lee; Kata Mihaly – RAND Corporation, 2025
In this report, the authors present findings from a one-year mixed-methods evaluation of the Teach For Pakistan (TFP) teacher leadership development program. They examined the program's impact on whole-child development, perceptions of teaching quality, and perceptions of the contributions of TFP Fellows to the school community. To do so, they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Child Development, Teacher Effectiveness
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Kata Mihaly; Jonathan Schweig; Elaine Lin Wang; Sabrina Lee – RAND Corporation, 2024
This report summarizes the findings from a two-year mixed methods evaluation of the effect of the Teach For Nigeria (TFN) teacher training program on whole child development, perceptions of teaching quality, and the school community. This report contributes to a growing body of research on Teach For All organizations across the globe and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Child Development, Teacher Effectiveness
Schwartz, Heather L.; Karoly, Lynn A.; Le, Vi-Nhuan; Tamargo, Jennifer; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2014
Delaware was in the first group of states to receive a federal grant in 2012 to improve early care and education services and increase the number of infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children in high-quality programs. One component of the state's grant is a rigorous validation process for Delaware Stars for Early Success, a voluntary quality…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Early Intervention, Grants
Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2014
Care Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRISs) have advanced and matured, a number of states and localities have undertaken evaluations to validate the systems. Such efforts stem from the desire to ensure that the system is designed and operating in the ways envisioned when the system was established. Given that a central component in a QRIS…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Program Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality
Karoly, Lynn A. – RAND Corporation, 2012
In an effort to inform preschool policy in California, an interdisciplinary team of RAND researchers conducted a multiyear study of preschool education known as the California Preschool Study. One of the recommendations from that study was the need for a more in-depth analysis of the effectiveness of the early care and education (ECE) workforce…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Professional Development, Preservice Teacher Education