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Youth with Disabilities at the Crossroads: The Intersection of Vocational Rehabilitation and Disability Benefits for Youth with Disabilities

Todd Honeycutt, Allison Thompkins, Maura Bardos and Steven Stern

Testing Consumers' Comprehension of Quality Measures Using Alternative Reporting Formats

Margaret Gerteis, Jessie S. Gerteis, David Newman and Christopher Koepke

A Trusted Source of Information: How Systematic Reviews Can Support User Decisions About Adopting Evidence-Based Programs

Diane Paulsell, Jaime Thomas, Shannon Monahan and Neil S. Seftor

Providing Reading Interventions for Students in Grades 4–9

Sharon Vaughn, Russell Gersten, Joseph Dimino, Mary Jo Taylor, Rebecca Newman-Gonchar, Sarah Krowka, Michael J. Kieffer, Margaret McKeown, Deborah K. Reed, Michele Sanchez, Kimberly St. Martin, Jade Wexler, Seth Morgan, Armando Yañez and Madhavi Jayanthi

Evaluation of the Million Hearts® Cardiovascular Disease Risk Reduction Model: Second Annual Report

Greg Peterson, Linda Barterian, Keith Kranker, Amanda Markovitz, Adam Rose, Rumin Sarwar, Allison Steiner, Leslie Conwell, Jia Pu, Michael Barna, David Magid, Kate Steward, Laura Blue, Dan Kinber, Precious Ogbuefi and Nancy McCall

Evaluation of Care and Disease Management Under Medicare Advantage: Final Report

Lisa Green, Julia Doherty, Judy Goldbert Dey, Elizabeth Pietrafesa and Emily Dwoyer

Performance Partnership Pilots for Disconnected Youth (P3): Implementation Study Findings of the Pilots' Experiences

Alexandra Stanczyk, Armando Yañez and Linda Rosenberg

Identifying, Monitoring, and Assessing Promising Innovation: Using Evaluation to Support Rapid Cycle Change (Presentation)

Marsha Gold

There is Little Experience and Limited Data to Support Policy Making on Integrated Care for Dual Eligibles

Marsha R. Gold, Gretchen A. Jacobson and Rachel L. Garfield

Transfer Incentives for High Performing Teachers (In Focus Brief)

Steven Glazerman, Ali Protik, Bing-ru Teh, Julie Bruch and Jeffrey Max

Outcomes of Vascular and Cardiac Surgeries, Appendix B: Detailed Tables

Eric Schone

Quality Support Coaching at LAUP

Lauren Akers, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Emily Moiduddin, Pam Winston, Artineh Samkian and Sharon Murphy

Independent Evaluation of Comprehensive Primary Care Plus (CPC+): Fourth Annual Report Appendices

Jessica Laird, Amanda Markovitz, Jelena Zurovac, Pragya Singh, Dana Petersen, Priya Shanmugam, Nikkilyn Morrison and Et Al.

The Implementation Evaluation of the Military Spouse Career Advancement Accounts Demonstration

Heather Hesketh Zaveri, Caterina Pisciotta, Linda Rosenberg and Karen Needels

Predicting High-Cost Pediatric Patients: Derivation and Validation of a Population-Based Model

Lindsey J. Leininger, Brendan Saloner and Laura Wherry

Issues in Developing the Client Assessment Instrument for the National Long-Term Care Demonstration

Barbara Phillips, Raymond J. Baxter and Susan A. Stephens

Measuring Head Start Children’s Early Learning Skills Using Teacher Reports During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Jessica Harding, Tutrang Nguyen, Lizabeth Malone, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Louisa Tarullo and Nikki Aikens

Evaluation of the Nutrition Assistance Program in Puerto Rico, Volume I: Environment Participation, Administrative Cost, and Program Integrity (Formerly referred to as the Puerto Rico Nutrition Evaluation Interim Report)

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Washington State's Experience in Extending Medicaid Managed Care to the SSI Population: A Retrospective Analysis

James Verdier

Trends in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participation Rates: 2000-2007 (Summary)

Joshua Leftin and Kari Wolkwitz

Missouri's Teacher Career Ladder Program

Kevin Booker and Steven Glazerman

Neighborhood Playgrounds, Fast Food Restaurants, and Crime: Relationships to Overweight in Low-Income Preschool Children

Hillary L. Burdette and Robert C. Whitaker

Changing Circumstances: Experiences of Child SSI Recipients Before and After Their Age-18 Redetermination for Adult Benefits (Professional Paper)

Jeffrey Hemmeter, Jacqueline Kauff and David Wittenburg

Theoretical and Empirical Properties of Model Assisted Decision-Based Regression Estimators

Jun Shao, Eric Slud, Yang Cheng, Sheng Wang and Carma Hogue

Estimating Mortality Impacts: A Tale of Two Data Sources

Jennifer Schore

The Consortium: 2015 Year in Review

Jonathan McCay and Steve Bruns

Which States Have Limited Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment for Long-Term Care Users?

Valerie Cheh

Dual Eligible Education and Enrollment: Challenges for States

Jim Verdier

Disproportionality in School Discipline: An Assessment in Maryland through 2018

Johanna Lacoe and Mikia Manley

What Do Effective Teachers of Inner-City Children have in Common?

Richard Murnane and Barbara R. Phillips

Findings from an Experimental Evaluation of Playworks: Effects on Play, Physical Activity, and Recess

Nicholas Beyler, Martha Bleeker, Susanne James-Burdumy, Jane Fortson, Rebecca A. London, Lisa Westrich, Katie Stokes-Guinan and Sebastian Castrechini

A Simulation Study to Compare Weighting Methods for Survey Nonresponses in the National Survey of Recent College Graduates

Amang Sukasih, Donsig Jang, Sonya Vartivarian, Stephen Cohen and Fan Zhang

Does Pregnancy Complication History Improve Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction? Findings from the HUNT Study in Norway

Amanda R. Markovitz, Jennifer J. Stuart, Julie Horn, Paige L. Williams, Eric B. Rimm, Stacey A. Missmer, Lauren J. Tanz, Eirin B. Haug, Abigail Fraser, Simon Timpka, Bjørnar Klykken, Håvard Dalen, Pål R. Romundstad, Janet W. Rich-Edwards and Bjørn Olav Åsvold

Medicaid Financing of Public Psychiatric Hospitals

Debra A. Draper and Lori Achman

Patient Experience During a Large Primary Care Practice Transformation Initiative

Kaylyn E. Swankoski, Deborah N. Peikes, Nikkilyn Morrison, John J. Holland, Nancy Duda, Nancy A. Clusen, Timothy J. Day and Randall S. Brown

Operational Authority, Support, and Monitoring of School Turnaround (Issue Brief)

Rebecca Herman, Cheryl Graczewski, Susanne James-Burdumy, Matthew Murray, Irma Perez-Johnson and Courtney Tanenbaum

Uses of Data on Child Outcomes and Program Processes in Early Childhood Accountability Systems: Assumptions, Challenges, and Consequences

John M. Love

The Personal Responsibility Education Program Evaluation Performance Measures Final Report: 2013-2017

Lauren Murphy, Lara Hulsey and Susan Zief

Dedication to David Dean

Joseph M. Ashley, John Pepper, Kirsten L. Rowe, Robert M. Schmidt and Steven Stern

Improving Teacher Quality at Scale: 10 Tips from Practitioners

Clemencia Cosentino and Swetha Sridharan

Evolving Delivery System and Market Factors and Their Influence on Physician Networks and Patient Care

James D. Reschovsky and Eugene C. Rich

When Every Dollar Counts: Comparing Reported Earnings of Social Security Disability Program Beneficiaries in Survey and Administrative Records

David C. Wittenburg, Jeffrey Hemmeter, Holly Matulewicz, Lindsay Glassman and Lisa Schwartz

A Research Evidence Scan of Key Strategies Related to WIOA

Jonah Deutsch, Katherine Allison-Clark and Armando Yañez

Interim Impacts of the AIM 4 Teen Moms Program

Reginald D. Covington, Brian Goesling, Christopher Trenholm, Jennifer Manlove, Kate Welti, Pamela Drake and Jill Glassman

Measuring School Effectiveness in Memphis

Kevin Booker and Eric Isenberg

Jordan Refugee Livelihoods Development Impact Bond Evaluation Framework

Evan Borkum, Paolo Abarcar, Laura Meyer and Matthew Spitzer

How are CHIPRA Quality Demonstration States Designing and Implementing Caregiver Peer Support Programs?

Grace A. Ferry, Henry Ireys, Dana Petersen and Joseph Zickafoose

Paths Taken By New Awardees of Federal Disability Benefits

Priyanka Anand and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

The Impact of Transitioning Stairstep Children from Separate CHIP to Medicaid on Use of Health Services: Evidence from Colorado and New York

Sean Orzol, Lindsey Leininger, Lauren Hula, Cara Orfield, Richard Chapman and Matthew Mleczko

Variation in Laboratory Test Naming Conventions in EHRs Within and Between Hospitals: A Nationwide Longitudinal Study

Wyndy L. Wiitala, Brenda M. Vincent, Jennifer A. Burns, Hallie C. Prescott, Akbar K. Waljee, Genna R. Cohen and Theodore J. Iwashyna

Work, Welfare, and Family Well-Being

Merrile Sing, Heather Hill and Linda Mendenko

Effects of the Healthy Start Program on Infant Mortality and Birth Outcomes

Lorenzo Moreno, Barbara L. Devaney, Dexter Chu and Melissa Seeley

The Recovery Act Investment in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Interim Assessment and Implications

Eugene Rich, Dominick Esposito, Sheldon Greenfield, Sanford Schwartz and Bryan Luce

The High Costs of Maternal Morbidity Show Why We Need Greater Investment in Maternal Health

So O'Neil, Isabel Platt, Divya Vohra, Emma Pendl-Robinson, Eric Dehus, Laurie Zephyrin and Kara Zivin

The Seeds to Success Modified Field Test: Impact Evaluation Findings

Kimberly Boller, Randall Blair, Patricia Del Grosso and Diane Paulsell

Long-Term Outcomes of the New Jersey Nurse Faculty Preparation Program Scholars

Angela M. Gerolamo, Kara Conroy, Grace Roemer, Aline Holmes, Susan Salmond and Jennifer Polakowski

Preschool Boys of Color: Portraits of the Population Served by Head Start

Nikki Aikens, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Louisa Tarullo, Lizabeth Malone, Annalee Kelly and Judith Cannon

Predictive Modeling for Population Health Management: A Practical Guide (Issue Brief)

Lindsey Leininger and Thomas DeLeire

New Data Highlight Children's Progress During Head Start (In Focus Brief)

Various Authors

Alternative Student Growth Measures for Teacher Evaluation: Profiles of Early-Adopting Districts (Executive Summary)

Brian Gill, Brittany English, Joshua Furgeson and Moira McCullough

Small-Area Income and Poverty Estimates: Priorities for 2000 and Beyond

Panel on Estimates of Poverty for Small Geographic Areas of which Allen L. Schirm is a Member

Use of One-Stops by Social Security Disability Beneficiaries in Four States Implementing Disability Program Navigator Initiatives

Gina Livermore and Silvie Colman

Case Study of a Program Addressing Participants’ Barriers Before Providing Training and Other Work-Related Activities: Rhode Island Works

Lindsay Ochoa and Linda Rosenberg

Child Labor, Schooling, and Child Ability (Working Paper)

Richard Akresh, Emilie Bagby, Damien de Walque and Harounan Kazianga

Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program: State Implementation Progress

Dennis Ranalli, Edward Harper, Rosemary O'Connell, Jay Hirschman, Nancy Cole, Quinn Moore and Brandon Coffee-Borden

Adapting an Evidence-Based Curriculum in a Rural Setting: The Early Impacts of Reducing the Risk in Kentucky

Brian Goesling, Robert G. Wood, Joanne Lee and Susan Zief

Estimated Impacts for Participants in the Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Program Under the 2002 Amendments

Peter Z. Schochet, Ronald D'Amico, Jillian Berk, Sarah Dolfin and Nathan Wozny

Teacher Compensation Reform: Promising Strategies and Feasible Methods to Rigorously Study Them

Steven Glazerman

Employment of Individuals in the Social Security Disability Programs

Paul O'Leary, Gina A. Livermore and David C. Stapleton

Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 7 Impacts

Matthew Johnson and Alicia Demers

Youth Transition

David Wittenburg and Gina Livermore

Dynamics of Food Stamp Program Participation, 2001-2003

Scott Cody, Laura Castner, James Mabli and Julie Sykes

Characteristics of Low-Wage Workers and Their Labor Market Experiences: Evidence from the Mid- to Late 1990s

Peter Schochet and Anu Rangarajan

Exploring Proxy Response Bias in a Large-Scale Survey of People with Disabilities

Eric Grau and Jason Markesich

Continuing with the Same Issuer in Transitions Between Medicaid and the Marketplace: Premium Assistance Models in Arkansas, Iowa, and New Hampshire

Brenda Natzke and Sandra Chao

Measuring Implementation of Early Childhood Interventions at Multiple System Levels

Diane Paulsell, Ann M. Berghout and Maegan Lokteff

Medicaid Access Monitoring Review Plans: Payment Rate Resource Toolkit

Deborah Chollet and Amanda Lechner

Features of Successful Care Coordination Programs

Randy Brown, Debbie Peikes and Greg Peterson

Denver WIOA Out-of-School Youth Services: Using Evidence-Informed Practices to Advance Youth Self-Sufficiency and Well-Being

Annalisa Mastri and Marykate Zukiewicz

Money Follows the Person Demonstration: Overview of State Grantee Progress, January to December 2015

Eric Morris, Rebecca Coughlin, Brynn Hagen, Ciara He, Allison Steiner, Noelle Denny-Brown, Lisa McCusker, Jason Smoot, Rebecca SweetlLester and Susan R. Williams

Spotlight on Illinois

Dana Petersen, Christal Ramos, Emily Lawton and Amanda Napoles

Student Selection, Attrition, and Replacement in KIPP Middle Schools (Journal Article)

Ira Nichols-Barrer, Philip Gleason, Brian Gill and Christina Clark Tuttle

Measure Sets and Measurement Systems: Multistakeholder Guidance for Design and Evaluation

Samuel Simon

Association Between Outpatient Visits Following Hospital Discharge and Readmissions Among Medicare Beneficiaries with Atrial Fibrillation and Other Chronic Conditions

Mai Hubbard, Sloane Frost, Kimberly Siu, Nicole Quon and Dominick Esposito

Mother-Child Bookreading in Low-Income Families: Correlates and Outcomes During the First Three Years of Life

Helen Raikes, Barbara Alexander Pan, Gayle Luze, Catherine S. Tamis-LeMonda, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Jill Constantine, Louisa Banks Tarullo, H. Abigail Raikes and Eileen T. Rodriguez

Schooling Progress, Learning Reversal: Indonesia’s Learning Profiles Between 2000 and 2014

Amanda Beatty, Emilie Berkhout, Luhur Bima, Menno Pradhan and Daniel Suryadarma

QRS Profile: Kentucky STARS for KIDS NOW

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

BOND Implementation and Evaluation: Stage 2 Early Assessment Report

Daniel Gubits, Rachel Cook, Stephen Bell, Michelle Derr, Jillian Berk, Ann Person, David Stapleton, Denise Hoffman and David Wittenburg

The Financial Repercussions of New Work-Limiting Health Conditions for Older Workers

Jody Schimmel and David C. Stapleton

Considerations for the Papers Developed for the SSI Youth Solutions Project

Todd Honeycutt, Kara Contreary and Gina Livermore

Charter High Schools' Effects on Long-Term Attainment and Earnings (Working Paper)

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Tim Sass and Ron Zimmer

Expanding Graduate Medical Education in California: The Role of GME-Naive Hospitals

Alexandra Ament and Diane Rittenhouse

Factors Influencing Patients’ Receptiveness to Evidence-Based Recommendations During the Clinical Encounter

Cara Stepanczuk, Nyna Williams, Katie Morrison and Charlene Kemmerer

Do Catch-Up Contributions Increase 401 (K) Savings?

Qi Guan, Matthew Rutledge, April Yanyuan Wu and Francis M. Vitagliano

Integrating Care for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees Using a Managed Fee-for-Service Model

James Verdier, Melanie Au, Jenna Libersky, Suzanne Gore, Alice Lind and Nancy Archibald

Children with Disabilities and Special Health Care Needs in NCQA-Recognized Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Health Care Utilization, Provider Perspectives and Parental Expectations, Executive Summary

Kate Stewart, Dana Petersen, Joe Zickafoose, Beny Wu, Mynti Hossain, Lisa Schottenfeld, Caroline Massad Francis, Randall Brown and Henry Ireys

Predicting Objective Physical Activity from Self-Report Surveys: Limitations Based on a Model Validation Study Using Estimated Generalized Least Squares Regression

Nick Beyler

The Changing Medicaid Managed Care Market: The Characteristics and Roles of Medicaid-Dominated Plans

Suzanne Felt-Lisk

An Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Durations Since the 1990-1992 Recession

Karen E. Needels and Walter Nicholson

Welfare Clients' Employment Obstacles in Rural and Urban Areas: Lessons from Nebraska

Alicia Meckstroth, Michael Ponza and Michelle K. Derr