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Marie-Andrée Somers; Michelle Dixon; Claudia Solís-Román; Megan Schwartz; Olivia Lalanne; Bryce Marshall; Lauren Lee; Osvaldo Avila – MDRC, 2025
LifeSkills Training is the only program to prevent substance use disorder among adolescents that has evidence of effects on substance use outcomes from multiple randomized controlled trials. Evaluations have shown that the version for middle school students reduces their use of substances in high school, but these studies were conducted in the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Middle School Students, Substance Abuse, Drug Use
Marissa Strassberger; Barbara Condliffe – MDRC, 2024
High-dosage tutoring-defined as consistently scheduled tutorials during the school day in which students work with a trained tutor in small groups (for example, four students to one tutor) at least three times per week--is among the most promising educational interventions for improving student learning. Despite their appeal, high-dosage tutoring…
Descriptors: Tutor Training, Tutorial Programs, Tutoring, Tutors
Klein, Sabrina; Rosen, Rachel; Beal, Katie; Salimi, Sarah – MDRC, 2023
Interest in the field of career and technical education (CTE) has experienced a resurgence over the last decade, as the global economy has grown increasingly competitive while students have continued to leave school underprepared for well-paying twenty-first century jobs. Together and separately, the education and workforce sectors have sought to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Job Training, Program Effectiveness, Evidence
Jean Grossman; Betsy Tessler; Keith Olejniczak; Francesca Ciaramella – MDRC, 2024
Job Corps is the largest and most comprehensive education and job training program in the United States for young people ages 16 to 24 who are not in school or working. Most students live at and take classes at its approximately 120 residential centers. To explore ways to improve student outcomes and reduce per-student costs, Job Corps pilot…
Descriptors: Job Training, Partnerships in Education, Pilot Projects, Program Effectiveness
Schaberg, Kelsey – MDRC, 2020
While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to high unemployment rates overall, low-wage workers have been hit particularly hard. It is likely that many of the jobs lost as a result of the current recession will never return, even as new jobs are created. Some job seekers may have to learn new skills so they can find employment in a new field. Sector…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Job Training, Retraining
Schaberg, Kelsey; Greenberg, David H. – MDRC, 2020
This report summarizes the long-term findings of a rigorous random assignment evaluation of the WorkAdvance model, a sectoral training and advancement initiative. Launched in 2011, WorkAdvance goes beyond the previous generation of employment programs by introducing demand-driven skills training and a focus on jobs that have identifiable career…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Job Training, Program Effectiveness, Economic Impact
Grossman, Jean B.; Quiroz Becerra, M. Victoria; Tessler, Betsy; Azurdia, Gilda – MDRC, 2023
A 2014 report on global human capital trends found that many employers across the United States had difficulties maintaining a skilled and committed workforce. Yet unemployment among young people ages 16 to 29 years was well above the overall unemployment rate. In 2016, 8.2 percent of this group were unemployed, while the national average was 4.9…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Labor Force Development, Social Justice, Change Strategies
Wasserman, Kyla; Freedman, Lily; Rodney, Zaina; Schultz, Caroline – MDRC, 2021
The Families Forward Demonstration (FFD) examined new strategies to increase the earnings of parents who owe child support but are unable to fully meet their obligations due to low earnings. It also focused on "responsive" child support services that helped parents understand their support obligations, and even suspended certain…
Descriptors: Job Training, Parents, Children, Financial Support
Zhu, Pei – MDRC, 2019
Educational practices that prove effective often involve a substantial investment of training and support time. Unfortunately, that is the very characteristic that makes it difficult and costly to expand the programs on a large scale. A key challenge when scaling up is to maintain high levels of effectiveness at an affordable cost.…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Program Effectiveness, Individualized Instruction, Faculty Development
Schaberg, Kelsey – MDRC, 2017
Individuals with low incomes often struggle to advance in the labor market, yet at the same time, some employers report difficulty finding workers with the necessary skills. WorkAdvance is a workforce development model that seeks to address the needs of both of these groups through its "dual customer" approach. The model offers training…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Models, Training Methods, Low Income Groups
Garcia, Ivonne; Price, Madeline; Avila, Osvaldo; Somers, Marie-Andrée – MDRC, 2019
Children's school readiness as they enter kindergarten is an important predictor of their academic success and ultimately their long-term health and economic outcomes. Research shows that participation in high-quality early childhood education helps preschoolers gain the foundational language and literacy skills as well as the social-emotional…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, School Readiness, Grandparents, Older Adults
Bloom, Dan; Miller, Cynthia – MDRC, 2018
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicate that in 2016 over four million young people in the United States were "disconnected," meaning they had not been enrolled in school in the previous three months and were not working. Although this number has fallen in the years since the Great Recession (which officially ended in 2009), as the…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Employment Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Program Evaluation
Rappaport, Shelley; Somers, Marie-Andrée; Granito, Kelly – MDRC, 2019
In summer 2015, roughly six years after the Great Recession of 2007-2009 ended, the American media began reporting on an emerging teacher shortage. Public schools were reinstating programs and classes that they had cut during the recession, and student enrollment was increasing. Meanwhile, enrollment in teacher training programs was decreasing.…
Descriptors: Institutes (Training Programs), Summer Programs, Alternative Teacher Certification, Teacher Education Programs
Hendra, Richard; Greenberg, David H.; Hamilton, Gayle; Oppenheim, Ari; Pennington, Alexandra; Schaberg, Kelsey; Tessler, Betsy L. – MDRC, 2016
This report summarizes the two-year findings of a rigorous random assignment evaluation of the WorkAdvance model, a sectoral training and advancement initiative. Launched in 2011, WorkAdvance goes beyond the previous generation of employment programs by introducing demand-driven skills training and a focus on jobs that have career pathways. The…
Descriptors: Employment Programs, Labor Force Development, Demonstration Programs, Program Evaluation
Treskon, Louisa; Wasserman, Kyla; Ho, Vicky – MDRC, 2019
The Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP)™ initiative, a nationwide project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, aims to improve education and employment outcomes for young people ages 15 to 25 who have been involved in the child welfare and justice systems or who are experiencing homelessness. Young people eligible for LEAP are likely to be…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Grants, Costs
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