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Sustaining Effective Teacher Practice: The Impact of the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Development on Teachers’ Instruction

Jane Choi, Scott Richman and Sarah Dolfin

Evaluating Collaborations in Comparative Effectiveness Research: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Network Analysis

Joseph S. Zickafoose, Laura D. Kimmey, Amber Tomas, Dominick Esposito and Eugene Rich

HHS/ASPE Webinar Series: Developing and Using Learning Agenda Approach to Evidence-building (Webinar 7 Video: Urban Institute)

Demetra Nightingale, Amanda Cash and Jessica McNab

Exposure to Advertising and Perception, Interest, and Use of E-Cigarettes Among Adolescents: Findings from the U.S. National Youth Tobacco Survey

Jia Pu and Xiao Zhang

Promoting Opportunity Demonstration: Summary of the Interim Findings

David Mann, David Wittenburg and Michael Levere

Rural Road Rehabilitation Evaluation Plan (Memo)

Ken Fortson and Anu Rangarajan

Data Management for Pre- and Post-Release Workforce Services

Jillian Stein

Santa Clara County Children's Health Initiative Outreach and Enrollment Efforts Are Effective and Helpful to Parents

Dana Hughes (ucsf)

Estimating the “Effective Teaching Gapâ€

Eric Isenberg, Jeffrey Max, Philip Gleason and Jonah Deutsch

Using Data from Schools and Child Welfare Agencies to Predict Near-Term Academic Risks, Snapshot

Julie Bruch, Jonathan Gellar, Lindsay Cattell, John Hotchkiss and Phil Killewald

Links between Shared Reading and Play, Parent Psychosocial Functioning, and Child Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Adriana Weisleder, Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates, Jessica F. Harding, Samantha B. Johnson, Caitlin F. Canfield, Anne M. Seery, Caroline D. Raak, Angelica Alonso, Benard P. Dreyer and Alan L. Mendelsohn

Evaluation Reporting at a Glance

Lauren Murphy and Katie Adamek

Employment, Earnings, and Primary Impairments Among Beneficiaries of Social Security Disability Programs

David R. Mann, Arif Mamun and Jeffrey Hemmeter

Examining New York’s Delivery System Reform Incentive Payment Demonstration: Achievements at the Demonstration’s Midpoint and Lessons for Other States

Laurie Felland, Debra Lipson and Jessica Heeringa

Food Stamp Program Entry and Exit: An Analysis of Participation Trends in the 1990s

Scott Cody, Phil Gleason, Bruce Schechter, Miki Satake and Julie Sykes

Partnership for Patients: Interim Evaluation Report

Robert Fornango, Gina M. Tignini, Cindy Strickland, Rochelle Malinoff, Michael Lichter, Ravee Nithianandam, Nikhil Nagaraj, Bin Gu, Jason Martindale, Sunny Bateman, Julia Lewis, Malissa Mojica, Brian Starr, Valerie Cheh, Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Jelena Zurovac, Keith Kranker, Jessica Heeringa, Lori Timmins, Andrea Wysocki, Javier Rodriguez, Linda Barterian, Mariel Finucane, Arnold Chen, Catherine McLaughlin, Kirsten Barrett, Tyler Fisher, Lauren Vollmer, Alex Bryce and Boriana Pratt

Predicting Early Fall Student Enrollment in the School District of Philadelphia

Sean Tanner, Jenna Terrell, Emily Vislosky, Jonathan Gellar and Brian Gill

Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniques, Part 2: Analysis of Variance

Jeffrey E. Harris, Patricia M. Sheean, Philip M. Gleason, Barbara Bruemmer and Carol Boushey

Crowdsourcing Samples in Cognitive Science

Neil Stewart, Jesse Chandler and Gabriele Paolacci

Where, Exactly, are the RDD non-Respondents? A GIS-Based Approach to Quantifying Potential Bias

Ned English, Lisa Schwartz and Lisbeth Goble

Evaluation of the Helping You Take Care of Yourself Curriculum 2009-2010

Mindy Lipson, Melanie Besculides, Ebo Dawson-Andoh and Nicholas Redel

Unemployment Among Younger and Older Youth During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Hande Inanc and Megan McIntyre

An Analysis of Communicative Language Functions in the Speech Patterns of Bilingual Korean and Mexican Immigrant Children

Jin Sook Lee, Jane Y. Choi and Laura Marqués-Pascual

The Effects of Cash-Out on Food Use by Food Stamp Program Participants in San Diego

Jim C. Ohls, Thomas M. Fraker, Alberto Martini and Michael Ponza

Analysis of Dissemination and Impact of the Integrated Delivery System Research Network

Marsha Gold, Erin Fries Taylor and Tara Krissik

Using the Linear Probability Model to Estimate Impacts on Binary Outcomes in Randomized Controlled Trials

John Deke

Diversion as a Work-Oriented Welfare Reform Strategy and Its Effect on Access to Medicaid: An Examination of the Experiences of Five Local Communities

Kathleen A. Maloy, LaDonna A. Pavetti, Julie Darnell and Peter Shin

Using the Infrastructure of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program to Deliver a Scalable Integrated Early Child Development Program in Colombia: Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Orazio Attanasio, Camila Fernández, Emla O. A. Fitzsimons, Sally M. Grantham-McGregor, Costas Meghir and Marta Rubio-Codina

Benin Power Compact Policy Reform and Institutional Strengthening Project: Evaluation Design

Sarah Hughes, Patricia Costa, Cullen Seaton, Arif Mamun, Dara Bernstein and Nils Junge Catalina Torrente

Are Ratings from Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems Valid Measures of Program Quality? A Synthesis of Validation Studies from Race to the Top—Early Learning Challenge States

Lindsay Fox, Moira McCullough, Pia Caronongan and Mariesa Herrmann

Economic Vulnerability of Households With Essential Workers

Grace McCormack, Christopher Avery, Ariella Kahn-Lang Spitzer and Amitabh Chandra

The Food Choices of Low-Income Households

Ellen Eliason Kisker and Barbara Devaney

Impacts of the 2010 VA PTSD Rule Change on Veterans’ Disability Compensation and Reported Cognitive Disability

Kara Contreary, Jennifer Tennant and Yonatan Ben-Shalom

Key Challenges and Opportunities for Implementing School Located Vaccination Clinics for COVID-19 and Influenza: Roundtables with School Nurses and Immunization Programs

Erin Behrmann, Olivia Kenney and Maggie Magee

Letter on Leading Practices to Advance Equity within Federal Agencies

Paul Decker

Estimating the Administrative Costs of a National Income Maintenance Program Based on the New Jersey/Pennsylvania Negative Income Tax Experiment

Jerilyn Fair

Do Charter Middle Schools Improve Students' College Outcomes? (Study Highlights)

Kate Place and Philip Gleason

Young Adult SSI and SSDI Beneficiaries

Maura Bardos and Gina Livermore

Prescription Drug Costs for Children with Special Health Care Needs

Henry Ireys, Shanna Shulman and Stephanie Peterson

Evaluation of the Irrigation and Water Resource Management Project in Senegal: Interim Evaluation Report

Thomas Coen, Sarah M. Hughes, Matthew Ribar, William Valletta and Kristen Velyvis

Technical Methods Report: Statistical Power for Regression Discontinuity Designs in Education Evaluations

Peter Z. Schochet

2006 National Beneficiary Survey: Methodology and Descriptive Statistics

Gina Livermore, Debra Wright, Allison Roache and Eric Grau

Supporting Strategic Philanthropy (About Us)

Mathematica Policy Research

Can More Teachers Be Covered? The Accuracy, Credibility, and Precision of Value-Added Estimates with Proxy Pre-Tests

Elias Walsh, Dallas Dotter and Albert Y. Liu

Facilitating Impact Evaluations: Recommendations from the LAC Reads Evaluations

Various Authors

Participation Patterns in Three Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs for Adults with Low Incomes: Lessons for the Field

Sarah Dolfin, Joanne Lee, Robert G. Wood and Mia Monkovic

Integrating Workforce and Child Care Systems and Promoting Sustainability

Nickie Fung, Kara Conroy, Elizabeth Brown, Jessica Harding, Jeanette Holdbrook, Max Rankin and Grace Roemer

Characteristics and Performance of High School Equivalency Exam Takers in New Jersey

Jacob Hartog, Lily Fesler and Brittany Tabora

Do Disadvantaged Students Get Less Effective Teaching? Key Findings from Recent Institute of Education Sciences Studies (Technical Appendix)

Jeffrey Max and Steven Glazerman

The School Nutrition Dietary Assessment Study: Public Use Documentation, Volume II: Student-Level Data

Dexter Chu and John Burghardt

Medicaid Managed Care Enrollment and Program Characteristics, 2016

Jane Ahn, Christopher Fleming, Cyrus Jadun, Sean Kirk, Rebecca Lester, Jenna Libersky, Debra Lipson, Christine O'Malley and Susan Williams

Youth Engagement: Lessons Learned

Nathan Mix, Elizabeth Clary and Cay Bradley

Preliminary Findings from the Literature Review Presented at the Technical Work Group Meeting for the Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships

Patricia Del Grosso, Lauren Akers, Andrea Mraz Esposito and Diane Paulsell

How Does School Choice Affect Racial Integration?

Diana McCallum, Christina Tuttle, Jeffrey Max, Brian Gill and Philip Gleason

Subsidized Childcare and Child Development in Colombia: Effects of Hogares Comunitarios de Bienestar as a Function of Timing and Length of Exposure

Raquel Bernal and Camila Fernández

Analysis of Medical Expenditures and Service Use of Medicaid Buy-In Participants, 2002-2005

Gilbert Gimm, Kristin L. Andrews, Jody Schimmel, Henry T. Ireys and Su Liu

Evaluation of the National School Lunch Program Application/Verification Pilot Projects, Volume V: Analysis of Applications

Lara Hulsey, Philip Gleason and James Ohls

An Evaluation of the Individual Training Account/Eligible Training Provider Demonstration: Final Interim Report

Ronald D'Amico, Alexandria Martinez, Jeffrey Salzman and Robin Wagner

Charter School Effectiveness: Putting It in Perspective

Mark Dynarski, Tom Loveless, Philip Gleason, Brian Gill, Julie Davis Bell and Jim Peyser (Speakers)

Evaluation of Demonstrations of National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program Direct Certification of Children Receiving Medicaid Benefits: Access Evaluation Report

Lara Hulsey, Anne Gordon, Joshua Leftin, Nicholas Beyler, Allen Schirm, Claire Smither-Wulsin and Will Crumbley

Can Student Test Scores Provide Useful Measures of School Principals' Performance?

Hanley Chiang, Moira McCullough, Stephen Lipscomb and Brian Gill

Operationalizing and Empirically Identifying Populations Trapped in Place by Climate and Environmental Stressors in Mexico

Jack DeWaard, Lori M. Hunter, Mason C. Mathews, Esteban J. Quiñones, Fernando Riosmena and Daniel H. Simon

The New Jersey Unemployment Insurance Reemployment Demonstration Project: Follow-Up Report

Patricia Anderson, Walter Corson and Paul Decker

Trends in Lung Surgery: United States 1988 to 2002

Stavros G. Memtsoudis, Melanie C. Besculides, Lambros Zellos, Namrata Patil and Selwyn O. Rogers

Medicare Advantage (MA) Benefit Design and Beneficiary Choice

Marsha Gold

Research, Evidence, and the Global Innovation Ecosystem

Audrey-Marie Moore, Edith Felix and Josh Meuth Alldredge

Improving Health Care Quality Reporting: Lessons from the California Health Care Foundation

Beth Stevens, Tim Lake and Erin Fries Taylor

Multiple Benefit Receipt Among Individuals Receiving Food Assistance and Other Government Assistance

Andrew Gothro and Carole Trippe

Developing Rural Health Networks Under the EACH/RPCH Program: Interim Report of the Evaluation of the Essential Access Community Hospital/Rural Primary Care Hospital Program

Suzanne Felt and George Wright

Developing Home Visiting Models for Tribal Communities: Takeaways from the HomVEE Tribal Review

Andrea Mraz Esposito, Emily Sama-Miller and Elizabeth Davenport Pollock

Characteristics of SCHIP Eligibility and Enrollment Data Systems: Feasibility for Supporting Research on SCHIP

Angela Merrill, Wendy Conroy and Brian Quinn

Impacts of Home Visits on Students in District of Columbia Public Schools

Allison McKie, Jeffrey Terziev and Brian Gill

The Relative Contribution of Provider and ED-Level Factors to Variation Among the Top 15 Reasons for ED Admission

Imad Khojah, Suhui Li, Qian Luo, Griffin Davis, Jessica E. Galarraga, Michael Granovsky, Ori Litvak, Samuel Davis, Robert Shesser and Jesse M. Pines

Providing Disadvantaged Workers with Skills to Succeed in the Labor Market

Sheena McConnell, Irma Perez-Johnson and Jillian Berk

Rising Family Income Inequality: The Importance of Sorting

Deborah Reed and Maria Cancian

Using Data from the EHSRE for Research on Young Children's Development

Anne Bloomenthal and Lorraine M. McKelvey

Experiences of Child Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Recipients Around Their Age 18 Redetermination

David Wittenburg, Jeffrey Hemmeter and Jacqueline Kauff

Added Sugars in School Meals and the Diets of School-Age Children

Mary Kay Fox, Elizabeth C. Gearan and Colin Schwartz

Examining Effectiveness of Medical Interpreters in Emergency Departments for Spanish-Speaking Patients with Limited English Proficiency: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Ann D. Bagchi, Stacy Dale, Natalya Verbitsky-Savitz, Sky Andrecheck, Kathleen Zavotsky and Robert Eisenstein

Cancer Surgeries, 1992-2001

Eric Schone

Improving Service Delivery to Out-Of-School Youth from Minority Backgrounds: Case Study Findings from the Southern California Resource Services for Independent Living

John O’Neill, Mira Wang and Frank Martin

Youth Populations that Could Benefit from Employment Interventions

Todd Honeycutt, David Wittenburg, Michael Levere and Sarah Palmer

Building Partnerships Between Early Head Start Grantees and Family Child Care Providers: Lessons from the Early Head Start for Family Child Care Project

Patricia Del Grosso, Lauren Akers and Luke Heinkel

Disability Data in National Surveys

Gina Livermore, Denise Whalen, Sarah Prenovitz, Raina Aggarwal and Maura Bardos

Scaling Checklists: Assessing Your Level of Evidence and Readiness (SCALER)

Scott Richman, Mary Anne Anderson and Karen Needles

Mapping State Health Insurance Markets, 2001: Structure and Change

Deborah Chollet, Fabrice Smieliauskas and Madeleine Konig

The “Battle†of Managing Language Barriers in Health Care

Emma M. Steinberg, Doris Valenzuela-Araujo, Joseph S. Zickafoose, Edith Kieffer and Lisa Ross DeCamp

The Current State of Behavioral Health Quality Measures: Where Are the Gaps?

Milesh M. Patel, Jonathan D. Brown, Sarah Croake, Rita Lewis, Junqing Liu, Lisa Patton, D. E. B. Potter and Sarah Hudson Scholle

The Green Jobs and Health Care Impact Evaluation: Findings from the Impact Study of Four Training Programs for Unemployed and Disadvantaged Workers

Karin Martinson, Julie Williams, Karen Needels, Laura Peck, Shawn Moulton, Nora Paxton, Annalisa Mastri, Elizabeth Copson, Hiren Nisar, Alison Comfort and Melanie Brown-Lyons

Addressing Unaddressed Needs: Helping Agencies Target Services to Children and Caregivers in Child Welfare

Erin Maher, Elizabeth Weigensberg, Matthew Stagner, Jessica Nysenbaum and Sarah LeBarron

Marriage and Relationship Skills Education as a Way to Prepare Prisoners for Reintegration

M. Robin Dion, Timothy Silman, Debra A. Strong and Betsy Santos

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Parent-Reported Diagnosis of ADHD: National Survey of Children’s Health (2003, 2007, and 2011)

Kevin P. Collins and Sean D. Cleary

Characteristics of Preschool Special Education Services and Educators, Data Tables

Stephen Lipscomb, Megan Shoji, Jeffery Terziev, Cheri A. Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Patricia Snyder and Margaret Burchinal

College Experiences Survey: Methodological Summary

David DesRoches, John Hall and Betsy Santos

Characteristics That Modify the Effect of Small-Quantity Lipid-Based Nutrient Supplementation on Child Growth

Clair Null, Kathryn G. Dewey, K. Ryan Wessells, Charles D. Arnold, Elizabeth L. Prado, Souheila Abbeddou, Seth Adu-Afarwuah, Hasmot Ali, Benjamin F. Arnold, Per Ashorn, Ulla Ashorn, Sania Ashraf, Elodie Becquey, Jaden Bendabenda, Kenneth H. Brown, Parul Christian, John M. Colford, Jr., Sherlie J. L. Dulience, Lia C. H. Fernald, Emanuela Galasso, Lotta Hallamaa, Sonja Y. Hess, Jean H. Humphrey, Lieven Huybregts, Lora L. Iannotti, Kaniz Jannat, Anna Lartey, Agnes Le Port, Jef Leroy, Stephen P. Luby, Kenneth Maleta, Susana L. Matias, Mduduzi N. N. Mbuya, Malay K. Mridha, Minyanga Nkhoma, Rina R. Paul, Harriet Okronipa, Jean-Bosco Ouédraogo, Amy J. Pickering, Andrew J. Prendergast, Marie Ruel, Saijuddin Shaikh, Ann M. Weber, Patricia Wolff, Amanda Zongrone and Christine P. Stewart

Assessment of the Initial Phase of the Train the Trainer Project Using the Helping You Take Care of Yourself Curriculum

Lisa Trebino, Kerianne Hourihan and Melanie Besculides

Packing Your Bags with the Evaluation Toolkit

Christopher Trenholm

Medicare Advantage in 2007: What Congress Intended?

Marsha Gold

Understanding Impacts of SNAP Fruit and Vegetable Incentive Program at Farmers’ Markets: Findings from a 13 State RCT

Allison Karpyn, Julia Pon, Sara B. Grajeda, Rui Wang, Kathryn E. Merritt, Tara Tracy, Henry May, Ginnie Sawyer-Morris, McKenna M. Halverson and Alan Hunt

Characteristics of Food Stamp Households: Fiscal Year 2004

Anni Poikolainen