Jonathan Schweig

This report provides initial findings from the evaluation of the Senate Bill 1041 reforms to the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids program, with implementation informed by an All-County Survey, state-level interviews, and interviews and focus groups in six focal counties, plus initial insights on participant outcomes explored with state administrative data and nationally representative data from the Current Population Survey.

In this report, part of a series on professional development for school principals, the authors analyze the effects of a large-scale implementation of the National Institute for School Leadership's Executive Development Program (a widely used principal professional development program) and paired coaching for middle school principals in three states.

The Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program serves more than 550,000 high school students each year, many of whom are at risk for failing academically or dropping out of school. This report examines the representativeness of the JROTC program at the school level with respect to geography and demographics and determines how federal laws and policies affect starting and sustaining JROTC units.

This report is an audit of the then-current Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) mathematics program, which was built around the 2009 standards. This report was done in preparation for the transition to the Common Core State Standards, which began in 2014 2015. The report finds variation in how current DoDEA mathematics program reflect best practices. DoDEA has challenges to overcome in implementing CCRS mathematics standards."