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...

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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.

Looks at a privately funded voucher program, finding minimal differences in math scores and modest differences in reading scores between voucher students and their public school counterparts, while also noting that the voucher program seems to be serving the working poor.

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.