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To help community college students obtain the skills required to earn their degrees, the Robin Hood Foundation—New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization—designed the Robin Hood College Success Prize. The goal of the competition is to find scalable…

Coaching-based interventions have shown promise in a range of settings to help people identify and develop self-regulation skills needed to set and make progress toward goals. Building on a growing body of evidence, the Administration for Children and…

A 2008 report showed only 35 percent of Boston public school graduates who had enrolled in college had completed a postsecondary credential within seven years of graduation. To improve completion rates, the Boston Foundation, the city of Boston, Boston…

Abt Global and its partner, MDRC, evaluated a Job Corps pilot program, the Cascades Job Corps College and Career Academy (CCCA), for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The Cascades pilot was an ambitious and evidence-based attempt to increase education…

Where students go to college is key to their educational attainment and later economic success. However, 41 percent of students nationally and about half of those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds undermatch—meaning they don’t attend college or they…

Investing in Innovation (i3) is a signature U.S. Department of Education-funded competitive grant program to fund school districts and nonprofit organizations to improve student outcomes. The i3 program has awarded more than $1.3 billion to 172 grantees…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) project is a science enrichment program aimed at inspiring, engaging, and educating K–12 students in science, technology,…

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services funded 16 grantees, including Hennepin County, Minn., to replicate and evaluate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs. Abt Global conducted a rigorous evaluation of Hennepin County’s…

Decoding is an essential skill to read words that a person may only have heard spoken. It is not just important for children. Millions of U.S. adults are non-literate or can perform only simple, literacy tasks. They need decoding skills, too—although…

Abt Global conducted a five-year Study of Nutrition and Wellness Quality in Child Care Settings for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS). Congress asked the USDA to conduct the study in response to concerns about…