K–12 Education | MDRC

We study approaches that promote academic success, support social and emotional well-being, and respond to the differing challenges students face—all with the goal of improving the pathway from elementary through secondary school in preparation for postsecondary education and employment.

Working Paper

My Children Come First

Welfare-Reliant Women's Post-TANF Views of Work-Family Trade-offs and Marriage

Report

Multiple Choices After School

Findings from the Extended-Service Schools Initiative

Report

Two-Year Findings from the Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study

Report

First-Year Findings from the Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study

Report

Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform

Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models

Methodological Publication

Measuring the Impacts of Whole-School Reforms

Methodological Lessons from an Evaluation of Accelerated Schools

Brief

Managing the Transition to High School in a Comprehensive Urban High School

Report

Making Progress Toward Graduation

Evidence from the Talent Development High School Model

Brief

Making Child Care Choices

How Welfare and Work Policies Influence Parents' Decisions

Brief

Make Me a Match

Helping Low-Income and First-Generation Students Make Good College Choices

Report

Learning Together

How Families Responded to Education Incentives in New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program

Report

Learnfare

How to Implement a Mandatory Stay-in-School Program for Teenage Parents on Welfare

Report

LEAP: Three-Year Impacts on Ohio’s Welfare Initiative

Report

LEAP

Final Report on Ohio’s Welfare Initiative to Improve School Attendance Among Teenage Parents

Report

Instructional Leadership, Teaching Quality, and Student Achievement

Suggestive Evidence from Three Urban School Districts