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I-BEST didn’t impact receipt of credentials requiring a year or more of college study or on quarterly earnings, but did improve obtaining some college credit.

"We don’t have any food. They are going to take my kids! Can you help me?" The desperate plea of a mother came through my voicemail. It was dinner time; I had already left the office for the day. I had been working with this family for months to address several safety risk factors. It was a tough case, and my job as a Prevention Specialist with the Department of Social Services (DSS) was to keep this family safely intact. I felt the weight of this responsibility every day. I knew if I did not intervene, foster care would be imminent for the children. However, the call came during the few hours I slept between jobs. I made less than $30,000 per year at DSS and, to make ends meet, worked a second full-time job at a residential program for youth aging out of foster care.

The three-year impact study of Carreras en Salud found positive impacts on educational attainment but no detectable impacts on employment or earnings.

The study of WTA Connect found an impact on exam-based credentials and confidence in career knowledge, but no detectable impacts on employment, earnings,  or family economic well-being.

Abt’s Cara Jackson set off a Tweet storm that she turned into a two-part blog series for Education Week on the role of teacher’s salaries in student outcomes.

Abt adapted annual nationwide flu surveys to respond to the novel SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and gather information on COVID-19 vaccination and vaccine hesitancy.

Education Innovation and Research (EIR) is a competitive grant program, and grantees must fund an independent evaluation of their projects’ effectiveness. Abt provides technical assistance on the conduct of these evaluations to maximize the strength of…