A federally mandated and funded tutoring program in Milwaukee Public Schools is not necessarily reaching the people who need the help the most, nor is it effective in increasing student achievement. The authors integrate ...

This study explores how the Milwaukee public school district manages the organizations that provide tutoring and other supplemental educational services required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. It also examines ...

Public performance measurement systems rarely use formal performance standards adjustment procedures. After weighing the pros and cons and describing processes, the authors recommend how public sector performance measurement ...

In a study of education projects in Honduras, the authors investigate whether participatory, community-driven approaches to social investment fund projects improve educational outcomes and community members’ perceptions ...

Two federal job training programs for adults lead to higher wages in the long run. People with poor work histories who enrolled in training through the Workforce Investment Act's Adult Program initially had lower wages, ...

This evaluation of a demonstration program that targeted noncustodial parents with high levels of unpaid child support debt and offered them incentives to become regular payers finds that participants paid more toward their ...

The authors use the principal-agent framework to synthesize theoretical and empirical knowledge of the implementation of performance management systems in the public sector. They describe a dynamic framework to account ...

This study empirically examines the quality of evidence that agencies provided to the Office of Management and Budget in assessments using the Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART), which was introduced in 2002 to strengthen ...

The authors' analysis finds that government-contracted private providers of job placement services in the Netherlands tend to focus on helping clients who are the easiest to place, a practice known as cream-skimming, when ...

The authors review the evidence based on youth development policies for adolescents, programs seeking to improve educational attainment and employment for in-school youth, and programs that try to "reconnect" those who are ...