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Developing Best Practices for Postsecondary Education
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Millions of students need to prepare for and stay in postsecondary educational programs. Numerous programs seek to help the students achieve their educational goals. There is research that evaluates these programs, but there was previously little…
Preparing Oregonians for a Postsecondary Education
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In 2006, the Oregon Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development (CCWD) launched the Oregon Pathways for Adult Basic Skills Initiative (OPABS) to better help low-skilled adults transition from the state’s Adult Basic Skills (ABS) programs…
ELS@H: Cutting-Edge Research Is Informing the Early Education Field
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Researchers and policymakers are trying to understand and build on the benefits of early learning programs. New research was needed to identify the short- and long-term effects of early learning experiences—from social, emotional, and cognitive, to how…
Teacher Preparation Experiences and Early Teaching Effectiveness
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Teachers can make a real difference in students’ outcomes. However, teacher quality varies greatly. New teachers, who frequently begin their careers in high-need schools where students are in greatest need of effective instruction, have been shown to be…
Preparing New Teachers for Day One
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The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s Candidate Assessment of Performance (CAP) is designed to assess the overall readiness of teacher candidates. The state wants to identify best practices, tailor guidelines and…
Making the Most of a Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG)
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In late 2014, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) was awarded a federal Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG) to expand high-quality early childhood education to more than 800 4-year-old children per year in five underserved…
Assessing the Massachusetts Education Evaluation Framework
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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…
Technical Assistance for Education Innovation and Research Evaluations
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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…
The C5+1 Project Helped Nations Plan Climate Resilience
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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…
The Jordan USAID Health Service Delivery Project
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USAID and the Government of Jordan (GOJ) want to expand access to—and the availability of—quality integrated essential health services at the national and sub-national levels and increase the government’s capacity to deliver these improved services…