Impacts of Dropout Prevention Programs. Princeton, NJ: Mathematica Policy Research (original) (raw)
directed the evaluation in its early years and helped to lay a solid foundation for its findings. Nancy Adelman of Policy Studies Associates and Steven Murray of RMC Research played important roles in designing and carrying out the implementation analysis, and also provided ideas and input to the impact analysis. At Mathematica, Alan Hershey provided guidance, comments, critical review, and support throughout the process of writing the report. Linda Rosenberg managed the project, organized the conferences and advisory panel meetings, and developed estimates of program costs that we used in Chapter II. John Homrighausen oversaw the huge data collection effort. West Addison developed the data tracking system and programmed the statistical calculations, along with Lauren Beaumont, Catherine Daly, Kainan Tang, and Doug Almond. Laura Berenson edited the report, and Jill Miller oversaw its production.
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