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Promoting Early Literacy Skills

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Abt Global was subcontracted by RMC Research to help the National Institute for Literacy promote the findings and recommendations of the National Early Literacy Panel. The Panel synthesized research on the teaching of literacy and literacy-related skills…
Evaluating REL Pacific’s Secondary Writing Toolkit

Evaluating REL Pacific’s Secondary Writing Toolkit

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Literacy—including writing—is closely tied to student success throughout K–12 education, impacting high school graduation and, ultimately, income after graduation. But students across the United States perform poorly on assessments of writing and,…
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Evaluating Data on School Turnaround AmeriCorps Efforts

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School Turnaround AmeriCorps is a grant program to increase high school graduation, college readiness, and educational attainment for students in our nation’s persistently lowest-achieving schools, designated as School‐Improvement Grant (SIG) or Priority…
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Support for the Mathematics and Science Program (MSP)

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The goal of the U.S. Department of Education’s Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) program is to boost students’ academic achievement in math and science. The approach for doing that is to augment classroom teachers’ science, technology,…
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Research Partnership Supports Effective Educators in Massachusetts

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From 2012 to 2015, the research team including Abt Global and SRI International studied the implementation of a new system to improve educator effectiveness in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The research was conducted for the Massachusetts Department…
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Evaluation of the Teen Outreach Program (TOP) in Hennepin County, Minnesota

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In 2010, Hennepin County, Minn., was one of 16 grantees awarded funds by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to replicate with fidelity and rigorously evaluate evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention programs. Abt Global conducted a…
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Evaluation of Delaware's A Better Chance (ABC) Program

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For Delaware's A Better Chance (ABC) welfare reform initiative, Abt Global designed an evaluation that involved process, impact, and cost-effectiveness studies.  These studies addressed how the State implemented ABC and how clients' experiences differed…
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Building a 21st Century Road Map to Child Welfare Transformation

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For far too long, the child welfare system has been designed to be reactive, where caseworkers respond after child maltreatment and other adverse childhood experiences have occurred, with the primary intervention being removal from the home. For young…
Improving Access to Basic Services in Senegal

Improving Access to Basic Services in Senegal

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Senegal’s government services in education, health, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) face continued challenges that slow the country’s progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Lack of access to data-driven systems prevents…
Abt Evaluates Family and Early Childhood Workforce Needs for Rhode Island’s PDG B-5

Abt Evaluates Family and Early Childhood Workforce Needs for Rhode Island’s PDG B-5

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Rhode Island’s Preschool Development Grant – Birth through Age Five (PDG) grant is being used to implement a plan to ensure all children from birth through age 5 (B-5) are supported by services and programs that will prepare them for lifelong success. To…