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Enhancing the 21st Century Community Learning Centers Evaluation: A Concept Paper

Mary T. Moore, Mark Dynarski, John Mullens, Suzanne James-Burdumy and Linda Rosenberg

The Effects of Complications and Comorbidities on the Quality of Preventive Diabetes Care: A Literature Review

Leslie Jackson Conwell and Chad Boult

Year 2 Demonstration Impacts of Using Medicaid Data to Directly Certify Students for Free School Meals: Final Evaluation Report (Summary)

Lara Hulsey, Joshua Leftin, Anne Gordon, Claire Smither Wulsin, Nicholas Redel, Allen Schirm, Nicholas Beyler, Sheila Heaviside, Brian Estes and Carole Trippe

Using Comparative Effectiveness Research: Information Alone Won't Lead to Successful Health Care Reform

Dominick Esposito, Arnold Chen, Margaret Gerteis and Timothy Lake

Evaluation of the National School Lunch Program Application/Verification Pilot Projects: Volume I: Impacts on Deterrence Barriers and Accuracy

John Burghardt, Philip M. Gleason, Michael Sinclair, Rhoda Cohen, Lara Hulsey and Julita Milliner-Waddell

Denial of Abortion in Legal Settings

Caitlin Gerdts, Teresa DePiñeres, Selma Hajri, Jame Harries, Altaf Hossain, Mahesh Puri, Divya Vohra and Diana Greene Foster

Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research

Sharyl J. Nass, Laura A. Levit, Lawrence O. Gostin, editors. Committee on Health Research the Privacy of Health Information: The HIPAA Privacy Rule; Institute of Medicine and of which Thomas Croghan was a Member

Interactions Between Survey Estimates and Federal Funding Formulas

Alan Zaslavsky and Allen Schirm

The Role of the Workforce System in Addressing the Opioid Crisis: A Resource Guide

Colleen Staatz, Michaela Vine, Crystal Blyler and Jillian Berk

School Breakfast Program But Not School Lunch Program Participation Is Associated with Lower Body Mass Index

Philip M. Gleason and Allison Hedley Dodd

Racial Disparities in Hospitalizations for Ambulatory Care: Sensitive Conditions

So O'Neil, Timothy Lake, Angela Merrill, Ander Wilson, David A. Mann and Linda M. Bartnyska

Evaluation of the National Farmworker Jobs Program

Elizabeth Clary, Jonathan Ladinsky, Megan Hague Angus and Alexander Millar

Raising the Bar: Impacts and Implementation of the New Heights Program for Expectant and Parenting Teens in Washington, DC

Subuhi Asheer, Paul Burkander, John Deke, Julie Worthington and Susan Zief

Measuring Competitive Foods in Schools: A Point of Sales Approach

Rhoda Cohen, Angelina Kewal-Ramani, Renee Nogales, James Ohls and Michael Sinclair

Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2014

Kelsey Farson Gray and Shivani Kochhar

Exploring the Role of Partners and Spouses in the Decisions of Social Service Clients

M. Robin Dion

A First Step to Helping California Workers Keep Their Jobs: Identifying Likely SSDI Entrants Using State Disability Claims

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Frank Neuhauser and David Stapleton

Recommendations for Successfully Recruiting and Retaining District Participation in a Teen Pregnancy Prevention Impact Evaluation

Timothy Bruursema

Current and Former WFNJ Clients: How Are They and Their Children Faring 40 Months Later?

Anu Rangarajan and Amy Johnson

Do Employers Value Return Migrants? An Experiment on the Returns to Foreign Work Experience

Paolo Abarcar

The Postretirement Well-Being of Workers With Disabilities

April Yanyuan Wu and Jody Schimmel Hyde

How Does Insurance Coverage Improve Health Outcomes?

Jill Bernstein, Deborah Chollet and Stephanie Peterson

Participation in Healthy San Francisco: Trends in Enrollment and Retention

Margaret Colby, Catherine McLaughlin, Gregory Bee and Tricia Collins Higgins

Keystone ACO's Health Navigator Program to Identify and Close Care Gaps (Case Study)

Julia Embry and Kate D'Anello

Case Study of National School Lunch Program Verification Outcomes in Large Metropolitan School Districts

John Burghardt, Tim Silva and Lara Hulsey

FFY 2013 Child Core Set Reporting in CARTS

Megan Thomas, Jason Williams and Michaela Vine

Using State Tests for Evaluation Purposes

Henry May, Irma Perez-Johnson, Josh Haimson, Samina Sattar and Phil Gleason

Race to the Top: Implementation and Relationship to Student Outcomes (In Focus)

Lisa Dragoset, Jaime Thomas, Mariesa Herrmann, John Deke, Susanne James-Burdumy, Cheryl Graczewski, Andrea Boyle, Courtney Tanenbaum, Jessica Giffin and Rachel Upton

Progress and Challenges in Developing Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (TQRIS) in the Round 1 Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) States

Gretchen Kirby, Pia Caronongan, Andrea Mraz Esposito, Lauren Murphy, Megan Shoji, Patricia Del Grosso, Wamaitha Kiambuthi, Melissa Clark and Lisa Dragoset

Exploring Mode Effects in a Panel Survey of New Businesses

Betsy Santos and David DesRoches

Case Management: At the Heart of Healthy Start

Barbara Devaney, Embry Howell and Marie McCormick

What Are Error Rates for Classifying Teacher and School Performance Using Value-Added Models?

Peter Z. Schochet and Hanley S. Chiang

Federal and Local Efforts to Support Youth At-Risk of Homelessness

Emily Knas, Matthew Stagner and M.C. Bradley

Characteristics of Academic-Affiliated Health Systems

Matthew J. Niedzwiecki, Rachel M. Machta, James D. Reschovsky, Michael F. Furukawa and Eugene C. Rich

The Multiethnic Placement Act 25 Years Later: Trends in Adoption and Transracial Adoption

Allon Kalisher, Jennah Gosciak and Jill Spielfogel

Health Promotion Finds a Place in Local Health Departments

Megan McHugh, Rose Marie Martinez, Rebecca Kliman and Sara Roschwalb

Consumer Engagement in Health IT: Distinguishing Rhetoric from Reality

Marsha Gold, Mynti Hossain and Amy Mangum

Quality Support Coaching in LAUP: Findings from the 2011-2012 Program Year

Pamela Winston, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Lauren Akers, Yange Xue, Emily Moiduddin, Elisha Smith, Nikki Aikens, Julia Lyskawa, Rebecca Mason and Susan Sprachman

Associations of Parent Ratings of Children's Behavior with Child Development in an Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Sample of Preschool Children

Julieta Lugo-Gil, Yange Xue, Cheri Vogel, Elaine Hill, John M. Love, Deanna Gomby and Deborah Parrish

Inter-Rater Reliability Analysis of Data to Document the Consultative Examination Process, Volume 2: Appendices

David Wittenburg, Debra Wright, Sloane Frost, Gordon Steinagle and Ron Fine

Sample Size Guide

Mikia Manley, Virginia Knechtel and Gregory Chojnacki

Project SPARK Landscape Analysis of Evaluation Technical Assistance to Build the Evaluation Capacity of Human Services and Related Programs

Alexandra Stanczyk, Mary Anne Anderson, Armando Yañez and Lauren Amos

Diet Quality of American School-Age Children by School Lunch Participation Status: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2004

Nancy Cole and Mary Kay Fox

Synthetic Multiple-Imputation Procedure for Multistage Complex Samples

Hanzhi Zhou, Michael R. Elliott and Trivellore E. Raghunathan

Conducting InDepth Assessments

LaDonna Pavetti, Michelle Derr and Emily Sama Martin

Findings from the Survey of Early Head Start Programs: Communities, Programs, and Families

Cheri Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Andrew Burwick, Laura Hawkinson, Angela Richardson, Linda Mendenko and Rachel Chazan-Cohen

Implementing Covid-19 Routine Testing in K-12 Schools: Lessons and Recommendations from Pilot Sites

Divya Vohra, Patricia Rowan, John Hotchkiss, Kenneth Lim, Aimee Lansdale and So O'Neil

School Nutrition and Meal Cost Study: Study Design, Sampling, and Data Collection

Eric Zeidman, Nicholas Beyler, Elizabeth Gearan, Nikkilyn Morrison, Katherine Niland, Liana Washburn, Barbara Carlson, David Judkins, Lindsey LeClair, Michele Mendelson, Tara Wommack, Justin Carnagey, Maureen Murphy and Andre Williamson

Design of the Evaluation of the Effective Practice Incentive Community Initiative

Scott Cody, Alison Wellington and Duncan Chaplin

Training Teens and Transforming School Culture Through Comprehensive Sex Education: An Implementation Study of Teen PEP (Executive Summary)

Subuhi Asheer, Ellen Kisker and Betsy Keating

A Descriptive Analysis of Older Adults in Houston/Harris County, Texas (Survey Tables)

William Black, Randall Brown, Karen CyBulski and John Hall

Is There a Trade-Off Between Quality and Cost?: An Experiment Comparing Telephone vs. Face-to-Face Responses to the National Beneficiary Survey

Matt Sloan, Debra Wright and Kirsten Barrett

Modernization of the Food Stamp Program in Florida

Scott Cody, Renee Nogales and Emily Sama-Martin

An Empirical Study of Nonresponse Adjustment Methods for the Survey of Doctorate Recipients

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

Sustaining Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs: Lessons Learned from Former OAH Grantees

Julia Alamillo, Subuhi Asheer, Betsy Keating and Jean Knab

Alternative Student Growth Measures for Teacher Evaluation: Implementation Experiences of Early-Adopting Districts

Moira McCullough, Brittany English, Megan Hague Angus and Brian Gill

Comments on "The Evolution and Impact of Unconditional Cash Transfers in South Africa"

Jane Fortson

National Long-Term Care Channeling Demonstration: Screening Identification Sheet

Prepared by Mathematica Policy Research

Evaluation of the Ticket to Work Program: Initial Evaluation Report

Craig Thornton, Gina Livermore, David Stapleton, John Kregel, Tim Silva, Bonnie O'Day, Thomas Fraker, W. Grant Revell, Jr., Heather Schroeder and Meredith Edwards

Outlier Adjustments and Reporting Thresholds

Eric Schone

The Role of Workplace Accommodations in the Employment of People with Disabilities

Priyanka Anand and Purvi Sevak

Prenatal Case Management of Pregnant Women: What Is the Evidence for Its Contribution to a Reduction of Disparities in Perinatal Outcomes?

L. Michele Issel, Jamie C. Slaughter and Sarah G. Forrestal

Implementation of a Certification Program in Supply Chain Management for Early Career Professionals

Julie Bruch, Scott Baumgartner, Sarah Dolfin and Nan Maxwell

Examining Paradata of Minority-Owned Businesses in the Kauffman Firm Survey

Betsy Santos, David DesRoches, John Chen and Yuhong Zheng

TANF at 10: Welfare Reform in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania

Robert G. Wood and Justin Wheeler

Implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program: Momentum Is Increasing After a Modest Start

Margo Rosenbach, Marilyn Ellwood, John Czajka, Carol Irvin, Wendy Coupé and Brian Quinn

Impacts After One Year of “Healing Classroom†on Children's Reading and Math Skills in DRC: Results from a Cluster Randomized Trial

J. Lawrence Aber, Catalina Torrente, Leighann Starkey, Brian Johnston, Edward Seidman and Peter Halpin

State of Utah, Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges

Jessica Mittler and Gary Hyzer

Evaluation of Healthy San Francisco

Catherine McLaughlin, Margaret Colby, Erin Taylor, Mary Harrington, Tricia Higgins, Vivian Byrd and Laurie Felland

The Impacts of Philadelphia's Accelerated Schools on Academic Progress and Graduation

Hanley Chiang and Brian Gill

Two-Step Estimation in Ratio-of-Mediator-Probability Weighted Causal Mediation Analysis

Edward Bein, Jonah Deutsch, Guanglei Hong, Kristin E. Porter, Xu Qin and Cheng Yang

E-Cigarette Use Among US Adolescents: Secondhand Smoke at Home Matters

Xiao Zhang and Jia Pu

Health Plans' Use of Physician Resource Use and Quality Measures

Timothy Lake, Margaret Colby and Stephanie Peterson

Constrained Innovation in Managing Care for High-Risk Seniors in Medicare+Choice Risk Plans

Craig Thornton, Sheldon Retchin, Kenneth D. Smith, Peter D. Fox, William Black and Rita Stapulonis

Second-Generation Medicaid Managed Care: Can It Deliver?

Marsha Gold and Jessica Mittler

Impacts of Uncommon Schools in a Turnaround Setting

Alyson Burnett, Moira McCullough and Breyon Williams

We Can’t Be on the Sidelines: The Role of Human Services in Advancing Environmental Justice

Chloe Green, Alex Bauer, Colleen Psomas, Shaun Stevenson, Anu Rangarajan, Matthew Stagner and Jacque Gombach

Maternity Group Homes Classification and Literature Review

Lara Hulsey

Use of Mobile Technology by Frontline Health Workers to Promote Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and Nutrition: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in Bihar, India

Suzan L. Carmichael, Kala Mehta, Sridhar Srikantiah, Tanmay Mahapatra, Indrajit Chaudhuri, Ramkrishnan Balakrishnan, Sharad Chaturvedi, Hina Raheel, Evan Borkum, Shamik Trehan, Yingjie Weng, Rajani Kaimal, Anitha Sivasankaran, Swetha Sridharan, Dana Rotz, Usha Kiran Tarigopula, Debarshi Bhattacharya, Yamini Atmavilas, Kevin T. Pepper, Anu Rangarajan, Gary L. Darmstadt and Ananya Study Group

Variations in Classroom Language Environments of Preschool Children Who Are Low Income and Linguistically Diverse

Brook Sawyer, Sally Atkins-Burnett, Lia Sandilos, Carol Scheffner Hammer, Lisa Lopez and Clancy Blair

Learning As We Go: A First Snapshot of Early Head Start Programs, Staff, Families, and Children. Volume I

Cheri A. Vogel, Kimberly Boller, Yange Xue, Randall Blair, Nikki Aikens, Andrew Burwick, Yevgeny Shrago, Barbara Lepidus Carlson, Laura Kalb, Linda Mendenko, Judith Cannon, Sean Harrington and Jillian Stein

Awareness and Perceptions of Medicaid and SCHIP Among Low-Income Families with Uninsured Children: Findings from 2001

Genevieve Kenney, Jennifer Haley and Alexandra Tebay

Training in Adolescent Substance and Opioid Misuse in Pediatric Residency Programs

Emily B. Allen, Catherine D. Michelson, Katherine A. O’Donnell, Sarah M. Bagley, Joel Earlywine and Scott E. Hadland

State Policy-Makers' Views on the Role of Consumer Advocates in Health Policy Discussions

Debra J. Lipson, Marykate Zukiewicz and Sheila Hoag

Drawing Across School Boundaries: How Federally Funded Magnet Schools Recruit and Admit Students

Moira McCullough, Lindsay Ochoa and Christina Clark Tuttle

Anxiety Symptoms Questionnaire (ASQ): Development and Validation

Amanda Baker†€, Naomi Simon, Aparna Keshaviah, Amy Farabaugh, Thilo Deckersbach, John J. Worthington, Elizabeth Hoge, Maurizio Fava and Mark P. Pollack

Early Implementation Experiences of State MFP Programs

Noelle Denny-Brown and Debra J. Lipson

Native Culture and Language in the Classroom Observation (NCLCO)

Jessica Barnes-Najor, Meryl Barofsky, Sara Bernstein, Lana Garcia, Laura Hoard, Lizabeth Malone, Laura McKechnie, Ethan Petticrew, Christine Sims and Allison Walker

The Faces of Medicaid: The Complexities of Caring for People with Chronic Illnesses and Disabilities

Susan M. Allen, Alison L. Croke, Suzanne Felt-Lisk, Margo Rosenbach and Arnold Chen Theresa Nguygen

Competitive Grant-Making: A Review of the Literature

Cara Orfield, Debra Lipson and Sheila Hoag

Estimating Minutes of Physical Activity from the Previous Day Physical Activity: Recall Validation of a Prediction Equation

Jared M. Tucker, Gregory J. Welk, Sarah M. Nusser, Nicholas K. Beyler and David Dzewaltowski

Reducing Job Loss among Workers with New Health Problems

Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Jennifer Christian and David Stapleton

The Affordable Care Act and Access to Care for People Changing Coverage Sources

Cara Orfield, Lauren Hula, Michael Barna and Sheila Hoag

QRS Profile: District of Columbia Going for the Gold Tiered Rate Reimbursement System

Kimberly Boller and Kathryn Tout

Exploring the Policy Implications of High†Profile Police Violence

Johanna Lacoe and Jillian Stein

Implementation of the Head Start National Reporting System: Spring 2007 (Appendix)

Louisa B. Tarullo, Cheri A. Vogel, Nikki Aikens, Emily Sama Martin, Renée Nogales and Patricia Del Grosso

Medicare's Experience with PPOs and Private Fee-for-Service Plans

Marsha Gold and Lori Achman

Pay for Performance: Lessons from Experience

Suzanne Felt-Lisk

Findings from the Healthy Start National Evaluation: Phase II

Deborah Klein Walker and Margo Rosenbach

What Makes for a Well-Designed, Well-Implemented Impact Study

Mary Anne Anderson and Nan Maxwell