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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…

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,…

The Department of the Interior (DOI) Hurricane Sandy Coastal Resiliency Program consists of 167 restoration, mitiga­tion, and science projects to develop and implement best practices for improving coastal resilience to sea-level rise, storm surge, and…

The Ready to Work (RTW) Partnership Grant program, funded by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) following the 2008-2009 recession, was designed to prepare middle- to high-skilled individuals who had experienced long-term unemployment for occupations in…

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…

To support climate resilience activities at the regional level and in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, high-level discussions between the U.S. Secretary of State and C5 Foreign Ministers led to the launch…

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.

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) tested the use of a Pay for Success (PFS) approach for funding and evaluating employment services. Under the PFS model, private and philanthropic investors cover the up-front costs of delivering an intervention. Then…

The blog explores the challenge of Head Start's teacher shortage amid the “back to school” season, and the need to address fair compensation for educators.

Fannie Mae had conducted extensive research with various groups of consumers (e.g., renters, young adults, delinquent borrowers, homeowners, refinancers, etc.), including several survey research projects to examine how consumers shop for mortgages. To…