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Abt evaluated the delivery and impact of the MA ECSO initiative which helps early education leaders and educators improve the quality of their practice.

Changing behavior requires reaching people at the right time: when they are open to making a change. One indication of that willingness in the diabetes context is if they are searching for diabetes-related information online. The challenge is how to take…

Many medium and large cities in developing countries lack the capacity to adequately manage solid waste. Limited awareness of best practices for waste management and lack of access to key technical resources are key barriers to improvement. 

The Cambridge Housing Authority and Compass Working Capital collaborated to test the effects of automatically enrolling families in an asset-building program within two public housing developments. The goal was to answer two questions: How could asset…

The Institute of Education Sciences’ Regional Educational Laboratories (RELs) provide applied research and trainings to state and local education agencies. Their mission is to support a more evidence-based educational system. To determine whether the…

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,…

The Deepwater Horizon disaster contaminated habitats across the northern Gulf of Mexico, including deep water corals, shallow bays, estuaries, coastal marshes and beaches. The spill affected wildlife ranging from birds to dolphins to sea turtles.  The…

Minnesota’s Department of Human Services wanted to leverage existing state data to develop measures to help monitor access to Medicaid-funded home and community-based services (HCBS). To build on our prior work evaluating critical access to the state’s…

From 2012-2015, Abt helped assess the implementation of Massachusetts’s new educator evaluation framework. The purpose of the research was to provide the Commonwealth and districts with real-time, usable feedback to support implementation of the…

Congress appropriated $25 billion for the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) Program, which provides assistance with rent and utilities to households that have lost income or experienced other financial hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to…