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Download full textRichburg-Hayes, Lashawn; Patel, Reshma; Brock, Thomas; de la Campa, Elijah; Rubb, Timothy; Valenzuela, Ireri – MDRC, 2015
One of the original purposes of student financial aid was to ensure fairer access to post-secondary education to those least able to afford it and to those traditionally underrepresented. Various federal and state programs were put in place to achieve this goal, including the federal Pell Grant and state aid programs. Yet policymakers and…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Scholarships, Student Financial Aid, Academic Achievement
Cha, Paulette; Patel, Reshma – MDRC, 2010
This report presents early results from a rigorous evaluation of a performance-based scholarship program that was implemented at three community colleges in Ohio during the 2008-2009 academic year. The program in Ohio that is the subject of this report is part of MDRC's national Performance-Based Scholarship (PBS) Demonstration, which was launched…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Program Effectiveness, Scholarships, Low Income Groups
Riccio, James; Dechausay, Nadine; Miller, Cynthia; Nuñez, Stephen; Verma, Nandita; Yang, Edith – MDRC, 2013
Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards, an experimental, privately funded, conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to help families break the cycle of poverty, was the first comprehensive CCT program in a developed country. Launched in 2007 by New York City's Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO), Family Rewards offered cash assistance to low-income…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Experimental Programs, Incentive Grants, Poverty Programs
Christensen, Gayle S.; Feehan, Kathleen; Loss, Daniel – US Department of Education, 2007
Flexibility and accountability are two levers for change that occupy an increasingly prominent place among federal strategies for educational improvement. In return for introducing higher academic standards and performance-based accountability systems, states and districts have been granted increasing flexibility over how they may use the funding…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
Michalopoulos, Charles; Card, David; Gennetian, Lisa A.; Harknett, Kristen; Robins, Philip K. – 2000
This report previews the Self-Sufficiency Project's (SSP's) longer-term effects by looking at these four related issues: wage progression, job retention, marital status, and attitudes toward work. A companion report, available separately, examines SSP's effects on children. Chapter 1 discusses the SSP research and demonstration project that…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Developed Nations, Employment Patterns, Foreign Countries
Polemeni, Anthony John – 1970
To determine the continuation rate of Title III projects after termination of Federal funding in December 1967, questionnaire response data from directors of 149 projects were analyzed, and a study was made of the respective project proposals on file at the Title III bureau of USOE. For purposes of analysis, projects were categorized by…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Programs, Educational Innovation
Morris, Pamela; Michalopoulos, Charles – 2000
This report examines effects of the Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) for three age groups of children (younger cohort aged 3-5, middle cohort aged 6-11, and older cohort aged 12-18) at the 36-month interview. A companion report on effects of the SSP on adults is available separately. Chapter 1 describes the SSP incentive, project design, and SSP…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, After School Programs, Behavior
