MDRC | Youth Policy Lab

In the Media

Students’ math outcomes have plummeted. Here’s what to do

Jan 2, 2024 Education Week

Math education across the country is in urgent need of redesign, and recent NAEP scores confirm there is no time to waste, with students showing the largest decline in math scores for 4th and 8th graders since 1990.Recent findings from the EdWeek...

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News

YPL co-director-led project to receive $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education

Dec 15, 2021

Over a five-year period, Reading Partners and third-party education program evaluator, MDRC, will receive $8 million in Education Innovation and Research (EIR) funding through the U.S. Department of Education in order to expand Reading Partners’...

YPL co-director-led project to receive $8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education

In the Media

These early math supports translated to gains later on for vulnerable students

Dec 10, 2021 Education Week

Immediate academic gains from early-childhood programs often fade as children move into upper elementary school. But a new study suggests math supports in the earliest grades may build on each other over years to create longer-term benefits in math...

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Report

A Path from Access to Success: Interim Findings from the Detroit Promise Path Evaluation

April 23, 2019

Alyssa Ratledge, Rebekah O’Donoghue, Dan Cullinan, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija (Youth Policy Lab)

Postsecondary education is widely seen as a necessity in the modern economy, yet among low- and middle-income families, college enrollment rates are dismayingly low — and graduation rates are even lower. College Promise programs, which cover local...

Evaluating the Detroit Promise Path

January 2019 - December 2022

Robin Tepper Jacob

The Detroit Promise Path pilot is an add-on to the Detroit Promise scholarship program that is designed to improve student outcomes by incorporating evidence-based support components. The Lab was engaged by MDRC, the primary research organization evaluating this pilot, to provide supplemental, qualitative evaluation of the impact of this...

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