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Educating English Language Learners: Understanding and Using Assessment

September 10, 2005

This guide, originally for charter schools, prepares schools to better assess the effectiveness of their English Language Learners (ELL) program and increase educators’...

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A House of Cards: Refinancing the American Dream

September 5, 2005

Due to ever-increasing financial pressures, families often depend on high-cost credit as a way to bridge the gap between stagnant or decreasing incomes and rising costs. This...

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A Work in Progress

August 22, 2005

This report evaluates the Jobs Initiative, Casey's six-city, eight-year effort to engage local institutions and stakeholders while identifying ways to improve workforce...

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The High Cost of Being Poor

August 20, 2005

This brief explores one topic: child care subsidies in Virginia. It examines who’s eligible and how the state can do better to make child care and school more affordable for...

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Internet-based Children's Data Users Perceptions of KIDS COUNT

August 19, 2005

This brief presents survey data on KIDS COUNT products from users of the internet-based Child Trends Databank.

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Engaging Youth in Community Change

August 11, 2005

Documentation of a “peer match” between Making Connections’ Providence, Rhode Island and Hartford, Connecticut site teams with MYTOWN, a Boston-based non-profit that engages...

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Indicators and Indices of Child Well-Being

August 8, 2005

This report examines efforts through time to identify and leverage social indicators of child well-being. Read how the work has evolved.

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Building Family Economic Success: The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

August 2, 2005

This report serves as a quick primer on the Earned Income Tax Credit — what it is and why it matters to America’s hardworking families. Readers will also learn about a Casey-led...

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Social Networks and Civic Participation in Making Connections Neighborhoods: Cross-Site Brief

August 2, 2005

This brief, which utilizes survey results gathered from 10 Making Connections sites, aims to understand how residents relate to one another and to local institutions. Readers...

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