Focuses on Upward Bound's effects on students during high school and the first few years of college, finding limited impacts during high school on students as a whole, but larger impacts on some groups, notably those with lower educational expectations going into the program, those with poorer...

Low-income students and students whose parents have not attended college typically are less likely than middle- and upper-income students to complete high school and attend college, and are thus less likely to reap the benefits of attending college. In 1965, Congress established the Talent...

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This new two-year study of low-income New York City students in grades 3 to 6 who received vouchers to attend private schools shows no significant difference in test scores between the scholarship group and the control group. It also finds that students performed about the same on standardized...

This final report on the national evaluation examines program implementation and effects of workplace literacy, finding that it is possible to implement and institutionalize effective programs, but doing so presents challenges for employers, program leaders, and policymakers.