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Rebecca Herman; Karen Christianson; Peter Nguyen; Susan Bush-Mecenas; Joy S. Moini; Samantha E. DiNicola; Stephani L. Wrabel; Eupha Jeanne Daramola; Pierrce Holmes; Nazia Wolters; Beth C. Gamse; Nadirah Farah Foley; Ramy Abbady; L’Heureux Lewis McCoy; Sarah Zelazny – RAND Corporation, 2024
In an effort to improve high school graduation and college enrollment rates among students who are Black, Latino, or experiencing poverty, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation established the Networks for School Improvement (NSI) initiative and awarded five-year grants to intermediary organizations to develop networks of school teams that work…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Networks, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies
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Benjamin K. Master; Elaine Lin Wang; Brian Phillips – RAND Corporation, 2025
This report presents summative findings from RAND's six-year evaluation of the BHP Foundation's Education Equity program. The evaluation is based on a review of funded partner organizations' internal program progress reports, performance indicators, and independent project evaluation reports; interviews with representatives from partner…
Descriptors: Summative Evaluation, Program Evaluation, Equal Education, Program Effectiveness
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Bush-Mecenas, Susan; Schweig, Jonathan; Opfer, V. Darleen – RAND Corporation, 2022
Social labs have recently been gaining traction in a wide range of sectors internationally, and have been applied to many complex social problems, including food system security, poverty and labour market revitalisation. Social labs convene participants to collaborate and work collectively on developing prototypes that are iteratively refined and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laboratories, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
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Samantha E. DiNicola; Rebecca Herman; Stephani L. Wrabel – RAND Corporation, 2024
In an effort to improve high school graduation and college enrollment rates among students who are Black, Latino, or experiencing poverty, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation established the Networks for School Improvement (NSI) initiative and awarded five-year grants to intermediary organizations to develop networks of school teams that work…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Networks, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies
Karoly, Lynn A.; Zellman, Gail L. – RAND Corporation, 2012
In 2010, the California Early Learning Quality Improvement System (CAEL QIS) Advisory Committee recommended a structure for a voluntary quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) that could apply to the state's 11,000 licensed centers and 36,600 licensed family child care homes (FCCHs). The proposed design consisted of an unweighted block system…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Care Centers, Advisory Committees, Rating Scales