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Menu of Measures: High-Quality Measures of Middle Years Math Student Outcomes: Julie Bruch, Jasmine Forde, Ijun Lai and Veronica Sotelo MuÃ±oz
Consolidation of Providers Into Health Systems Increased Substantially, 2016â€“18: Michael F. Furukawa, Laura Kimmey, David J. Jones, Rachel M. Machta, Jing Guo and Eugene C. Rich
Outcomes of Competency-Based Education in Community Colleges: Summative Findings from the Evaluation of a TAACCCT Grant: Ann E. Person, Jaime Thomas, Julie Bruch, Alexander Johann and Nikhail Maestas
Rethinking the Mental Health Treatment Skills of Primary Care Staff: A Framework for Training and Research: Jonathan D. Brown and Lawrence S. Wissow
24 Million and Counting: Reflections on 40 Years of Head Start Research in Support of Children and Families': John M. Love
Health Insurance Exchange Study: Deborah Chollet, Su Liu, Kate Stewart, Alison Wellington, Allison Barrett, Mila Kofman and Amy M. Lischko
Ewing Marion Kauffman School Year 6 Impacts: Matthew Johnson and Alicia Demers
Good Things Come in Small Packages: Lessons Learned from the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative: Sarah Jones, Monica Martinez and Cindy Cai
How Changes in Washington University's Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Pilot Ultimately Achieved Savings: Deborah Peikes, Greg Peterson, Randall S. Brown, Sandy Graff and John P. Lynch
Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Results from the Second Year of a Randomized Controlled Study: Eric Isenberg, Steven Glazerman, Martha Bleeker, Amy Johnson, Julieta Lugo-Gil, Mary Grider, Sarah Dolfin and Edward Britton
Hand in Hand: Enhancing the Synergy between Money Follows the Person and Managed Long-Term Services and Supports: Jenna Libersky, Debra Lipson and Kristie Liao
Integrating Positive Youth Development into PREP Programming: Kristin A. Moore, Andrea Vazzano, Isabel Griffith, Mindy E. Scott and Deana Around Him
Promoting Readiness of Minors in Supplemental Security Income (PROMISE): Recommendations of the Technical Advisory Panel Regarding the Use of Incentive Payments and the Evaluation Design (Appendices): Thomas Fraker and Todd Honeycutt
Transforming Teachers' Practice: The Impact of EL Education's English Language Arts Curriculum and Professional Learning on Teacher Practices: Jane Choi, Scott Richman and Sarah Dolfin
Developing a Health Care Information Portal for California Childrens Service's Providers: Functions, Models, and Issues: Deborah J. Chollet
Advancing Evidence-Based Decision Making: A Toolkit on Recognizing and Conducting Opportunistic Experiments in the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Policy Area: Alicia Meckstroth, Alexandra Resch, Jonathan McCay, Michelle Derr, Jillian Berk and Lauren Akers
Care Coordination for Children with Special Needs in Medicaid: Lessons from Medicare: Kate A. Stewart, Katharine W.V. Bradley, Joseph S. Zickafoose, Rachel Hildrich, Henry T. Ireys and Randall S. Brown
Meeting the Challenges: A Data-Driven Approach to Building Behavioral Health System Capacity: Mathematica
Pathways to Careers Employer Case Study: Futura Industries: Noelle Denny-Brown and Marisa Shenk
Rural Hospital Transitional Care Program Reduces Medicare Spending: Keith Kranker, Linda M. Barterian, Rumin Sarwar, G. Greg Peterson, Boyd Gilman, Laura Blue, Kate Allison Stewart, Sheila D. Hoag, Timothy J. Day and Lorenzo Moreno
Comparison of With-Replacement and Without-Replacement Variance Estimates for a Complex Survey: Frank J. Potter, Stephen Williams, Nuria Diaz-Tena, James Reschovsky and Elizabeth Schaefer
A Profile of the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program: 1998-99. With Selected Data from 1997-98 and 1996-97: Wendy Mansfield, Kathryn Downey Sargent, Margaret W. Cahalan, Robert L. Belle, Jr. and Frances Bergeron
A Method for Measuring the Effect of Certified Electronic Health Record Technology on Childhood Immunization Status Scores Among Medicaid Managed Care Network Providers: Paul Messino, Hadi Kharrazi, Julia M. Kim and Harold Lehmann
Considerations for and Lessons Learned from Online, Synchronous Focus Groups: Sarah G. Forrestal, Angela Valdovinos D'Angelo and Lisa Klein Vogel
Effects of Four Responsible Fatherhood Programs for Low-Income Fathers: Evidence from the Parents and Children Together Evaluation: Sarah Avellar, Reginald Covington, Quinn Moore, Ankita Patnaik and April Wu
Building Coalitions to Support Maternal Health Quality of Care in India: So O'Neil, Divya Vohra and Emma Pottinger
Discontinuous Coverage in Medicaid and the Implications of 12-Month Continuous Coverage for Children: Carol Irvin, Deborah Peikes, Chris Trenholm and Nazmul Khan
Congressionally Mandated Evaluation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program Site Visit Report: The State of Missouri's MC for Kids Program: Mary Harrington
KIPP Middle Schools: Impacts on Achievement and Other Outcomes (Executive Summary): Christina Clark Tuttle, Brian Gill, Philip Gleason, Virginia Knechtel, Ira Nichols-Barrer and Alexandra Resch
Evaluation Interim Report for the Georgia II Improving General Education Quality Project's School Rehabilitation and Training Activities: Ira Nichols-Barrer, Nicholas Ingwersen, Camila Fernandez, Elena Moroz and Matt Sloan
Money Follows the Person 2013 Annual Evaluation Report: Carol V. Irvin, Noelle Denny-Brown, Alex Bohl, John Schurrer, Wilfredo Lim, Rebecca SweetlLester and Victoria Peebles
Economic Conditions of Head Start Families: Connections with Social Supports and Child and Family Well-Being: Elizabeth Doran, Nikki Aikens, Lizabeth Malone, Jeff Harrington and Judy Cannon
Improving Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) Programs for Unmarried Couples with Children: Julia Alamillo, Daniel Friend and Robert G. Wood
New Work-Limiting Health Events and Occupational Transitions Among Older Workers: Jody Schimmel Hyde and April Yanyuan Wu
Care Coordination and Disease Management: Debra Lipson and Melanie Au
The Changing Face of Community-Based Mental Health Care: Changes in the Types of Community-Based Mental Health Services Available from 2014 to 2020: Crystal Blyler and Luke Horner
The QMed Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Program After One Year: Karen Sautter, Jennifer Schore, Randall Brown, Sherry Aliotta, Deborah Peikes and Sean Orzol
Durable Medical Equipment and Home Health Among the Largest Contributors to Area Variations in Use of Medicare Services (Summary): James D. Reschovsky, Arkadipta Ghosh, Kate A. Stewart and Deborah J. Chollet
Moving Toward Integrated Marketing Rules and Practices for Medicare and Medicaid Managed Care Plans: Michelle Herman Soper and Rivka Weiser
Dietary Effects of the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program: Anne Gordon, Barbara L. Devaney and John Burghardt
Informal Child Care in California: Current Arrangements and Future Needs: Various Authors
Measuring Co-Regulation: A Draft Tool for Observing Educators in Youth-Serving Programs: Julia Alamillo, Scott Baumgartner, Aly Frei and Mindy Herman-Stahl
Food Stamp Program Operations Study: Synthesis Report: Ruy A. Teixeira and William L. Hamilton
The Complier Average Causal Effect Parameter for Multiarmed RCTs: Peter Z. Schochet
Looking at Medicare Advantage: What Has Happened Since the Launch? What Will Happen in the Future?: Marsha Gold, Erin Fries Taylor, Christopher Fleming, Dawn Phelps, Maria Cupples Hudson and Miriam Loewenberg
Using Behavioral Outreach to Counteract Administrative Burden and Encourage Take-Up of Simplified Disability Payment Rules: Michael Levere, David Wittenburg, Heinrich Hock and John T. Jones
Enriching the Home Environment of Low-Income Families in Colombia: A Strategy to Promote Child Development at Scale: Orazio Attanasio, Sally Grantham-McGregor, Camila FernÃ¡ndez, Emla Fitzsimons, Marta Rubio-Codina and Costas Meghir
Options for Validating Claims-Based Ambulatory Care Quality Data for Value-Based Purchasing: Myles Maxfield
The Evolving SNP Marketplace and the Role of States: James M. Verdier
Review of WIC Food Packages: Improving Balance and Choice (Brief): Committee to review WIC food packages of which Mary Kay Fox is a Member
Environmental Changes and Their Impacts: Brigette Courtot and Embry Howell
Publishing Nutrition Research: A Review of Multivariate Techniquesâ€”Part 3: Data Reduction Methods: Philip M. Gleason, Carol J. Boushey, Jeffrey E. Harris and Jamie Zoellner
Databases to Track Use of Preventive Services After Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: Anna Hill and JudyAnn Bigby
Implementation of Career STREAMS: An Integrated Employment and Healthy Relationship Program for Young Adults: Daniel Friend, Heather Zaveri and Kathleen Feeney
Methodological Notes Regarding the Impact Analysis: Peter Z. Schochet, Ronald D'Amico, Jillian Berk and Nathan Wozny
Indonesia Got Schooled: 15 Years of Rising Enrolment and Flat Learning Profiles: Amanda Beatty, Emilie Berkhout, Luhur Bima, Thomas Coen, Menno Pradhan and Daniel Suryadarma
Evaluation of the National School Lunch Program Application/Verification Pilot Projects, Volume II: Data Collection Study Methods and Supplementary Tables on Certification Impacts: John Burghardt, Philip M. Gleason, Michael Sinclair, Rhoda Cohen, Lara Hulsey and Julita Milliner-Waddell
Disease Management: A Leap of Faith to Lower-Cost, Higher-Quality Health Care?: Ashley Short, Glen Mays and Jessica Mittler
Evaluation of the Medicaid Managed Care Program of the Center for Health Care Strategies: Overview of Results: Marsha Gold, Erin Fries Taylor, Tara Krissik, Jessica Mittler and Justin White
Building a Future: Interim Impact Findings from the YouthBuild Evaluation (Executive Summary): Cynthia Miller, Megan Millenky, Lisa Schwartz, Lisbeth Goble and Jillian Stein
Alternative Routes to Teaching: The Impacts of Teach For America on Student Achievement and Other Outcomes: Steven Glazerman, Daniel Mayer and Paul Decker
The Impact of a Home Visiting Program Enhanced to Address Repeat Adolescent Pregnancy: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Steps to Success: Dana Rotz, Menbere Shiferaw and Robert G. Wood
Assessment of Bias When Field Operations Are Curtailed in a Mixed-Mode Telephone and Face-to-Face Survey of Persons with Disabilities: Eric Grau
Options for a National Database to Track Participation in Federal Means-Tested Public Assistance Programs: Myles Maxfield, James Ohls and William S. Borden
The NQF Scientific Methods Panel: Enhancing the Review and Endorsement Process for Performance Measures: David R. Nerenz, David Cella, Lacy Fabian, Eugene Nuccio, John Bott, J. Matt Austin, Samuel Simon, Jack Needleman and Karen Johnson
The Status of Families on Child-Only TANF Cases: Robert G. Wood and Debra A. Strong
Relaxing the FSP Vehicle Asset Test: Findings from the North Carolina Demonstration: Nancy Wemmerus and Bruce Gottlieb
Do Consumer-Directed Medicaid Supportive Services Work for Children with Developmental Disabilities?: Leslie Foster, Stacy Dale, Randall Brown, Barbara Phillips, Jennifer Schore and Barbara Lepidus Carlson
Managing the Care of Dual Eligible Beneficiaries: A Review of Selected State Programs and Special Needs Plans: James M. Verdier, Melanie Au and Jessica Gillooly
Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2015 (Summary): Kelsey Farson Gray, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Lauffer
Design Options Report for a National Survey of Home Health Aides: Richard Strouse, Nancy Clusen, David DesRoches, Rita Stapulonis, John Hall and Brian Roff
Paying the Doctor: Evidence-Based Decisions at the Point-of-Care and the Role of Fee-for-Service Incentives: Eugene C. Rich, Timothy K. Lake, Christal Stone Valenzano and Myles M. Maxfield
Six Features of Medicare Coordinated Care Demonstration Programs that Cut Hospital Admissions of High-Risk Patients (Journal Article): Randall S. Brown, Deborah Peikes, Greg Peterson, Jennifer Schore and Carol M. Razafindrakoto
Practice-Based Research Networks (PBRNs) Are Promising Laboratories for Conduction Dissemination and Implementation Research: John Heintzman, Rachel Gold, Alexander Krist, Jay Crosson, Sonja Likumahuwa and Jennifer E. DeVoe
Oral Health Promotion, Prevention, and Treatment Strategies for Head Start Families: Early Findings from the Oral Health Initiative Evaluation Volume II Site Profiles: Patricia Del Grosso, Amy Brown, Heather Zaveri, Sandra Silva, Beth Zimmerman, Anne Hopewell and Diane Paulsell
The Promise of Better Economic Outcomes for Workers with Musculoskeletal Conditions: Priyanka Anand and Yonatan Ben-Shalom
BOND Implementation and Evaluation: 2017 Stage 1 Interim Process, Participation, and Impact Report: Sarah Croake, Priyanka Anand, Christopher Jones, Katherine Morrison, Cara Orfield, David Stapleton, Denise Hoffman, David R. Mann, Judy Geyer, Daniel Gubits, Stephen Bell, Andrew McGuirk, Tyler Rose and David Wittenburg
The Effects of Teach For America on Students: Findings from a National Evaluation (Working Paper): Paul T. Decker, Daniel P. Mayer and Steven Glazerman
Do Charter Middle Schools Improve Students' College Outcomes? (Evaluation Brief): Kate Place and Philip Gleason
A Study of the Self-Employment Assistance Program: Helping Unemployed Workers Pursue Self-Employment: Elizabeth Weigensberg, Karen Needels, Alix Gould-Werth, Ankita Patnaik and Joanne Lee
Calibration of Self-Report Tools for Physical Activity Research: The Physical Activity Questionnaire (PAQ): Pedro F. Saint-Maurice, Gregory J. Welk, Nicholas K. Beyler, Roderick T. Bartee and Kate A. Heelan
A Portrait of Head Start Classrooms and Programs in Spring 2020: FACES 2019 Descriptive Data Tables and Study Design: Elizabeth Doran, Natalie Reid, Sara Bernstein, Tutrang Nguyen, Myley Dang, Ann Li, Ashley Kopack Klein, Sharika Rakibullah, Myah Scott, Judy Cannon, Jeff Harrington, Addison Larson, Louisa Tarullo and Lizabeth Malone
Program Subgroups: Patterns of Impacts for Home-Based, Center-Based, and Mixed-Approach Programs: Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Helen H. Raikes and Cheri Vogel
The ARRA Investment in CER: A Description of the Midstream Evaluation and How the Funds Were Allocated and CER Priorities Addressed: Dominick Esposito, Pierre L. Yong, Eugene Rich, Kristin Geonnotti and Laura D. Kimmey
The Physician Workforce and Counting What Counts in Primary Care: Eugene C. Rich
Case Study of New Jersey's Express Lane Eligibility Processes: Sheila Hoag and Adam Swinburn
Successful Vocational Rehabilitation Innovations: Building a Better Toolbox: Susan M. Foley and Gina Livermore
Economic Costs of Excessive Alcohol Consumption in the U.S., 2006: Ellen E. Bouchery, Henrick J. Harwood, Jeffrey J. Sacks, Carol J. Simon and Robert D. Brewer
Descriptive Data on Region XI Head Start Children and Families: AI/AN FACES Fall 2015-Spring 2016 Data Tables and Study Design: Sara Bernstein, Lizabeth Malone, Ashley Kopack Klein, Charles Bush, Kathleen Feeney, Maya Reid, Serge Lukashanets and Nikki Aikens
What Works for Whom? A Bayesian Approach to Channeling Big Data Streams for Policy Analysis: Mariel McKenzie Finucane, Ignacio Martinez and Scott Cody
Challenges and Opportunities in Caring for Medicare-Medicaid Dual Eligibles: The Role of Special Needs Plans: James M. Verdier
State Strategies for Coordinating Medicaid and Housing Services: Rebecca Kleinman, Matthew Kehn, Allison Wishon Siegwarth and Jonathan Brown
New Data Available from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System (T-MSIS) (In Focus Brief): David K. Baugh and Carol V. Irvin
Improving Physical Health Among People With Serious Mental Illness: The Role of the Specialty Mental Health Sector: Jonathan Brown, Emma E. McGinty, Rachel Presskreischer, Joshua Breslau, Marisa Elena Domino, Benjamin G. Druss, Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Karly A. Murphy, Harold Alan Pincus and Gail L. Daumit
Evaluation of Prior Authorization in Medicare Nonemergent Ambulance Transport: Kara Contreary, Andrew Asher and Jared Coopersmith
State of Connecticut. Improving Food Stamp, Medicaid, and SCHIP Participation: Strategies and Challenges: Julie Darnell and Charles Nagatoshi
Insights from Federal Evaluation Technical Assistance Liaisons on the Partnerships Supporting Local Evaluations: Lindsay Cattell and Cay Bradley
Reaching Out to Kith and Kin Caregivers in Early Head Start: Diane Paulsell, Debra Mekos, Patricia Del Grosso, Patti Banghart and RenÃ©e Nogales
The Influence of Curriculum Material Design on Opportunities for Student Learning: Janine T. Remillard, Barbara Harris and Roberto Agodini
Governing the Public Workforce System: The Structure and Priorities of Local Workforce Investment Boards: Kristin Wolff

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