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The Unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy
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Contributing organization(s): Center for Organizational Dynamics, University of Pennsylvania

On election night, counts showed very different numbers than the exit polls predicted; and the differentials were all in the same direction.The media have largely ignored this discrepancy (although the blogosphere has been abuzz), suggesting either that t...
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Beyond Safe Havens: A Synthesis of 20 Years of Research on the Boys & Girls Clubs, Full Report
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Contributing organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

P/PV recently launched a multiyear study to understand the role that Boys & Girls Clubs
play in the lives of early adolescents. Beyond Safe Havens, a prelude to the larger study, reviews the range of evaluations that have been conducted on Boys & Girls Clubs over the past 20 years. The report ...
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The Costs of Out-of-School-Time Programs: A Review of the Available Evidence
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Contributing organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

Commissioned by The Wallace Foundation and written in collaboration with The Finance Project, this report reviews a variety of studies conducted since 1993 in an attempt to gain a broad sense of what it costs to run out-of-school-time programs. Among the report's findings: there is a lack of u...
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Getting It Right: Strategies for After-School Success
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Contributing organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

This report synthesizes the last 10 years of findings from P/PV's and other researchers' work to address one of the most demanding challenges facing today's after-school programs -- how to create and manage programs that stand the best chance of producing specific, policy-relevant outcomes. It...
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Increasing Opportunities for Older Youth in After-School Programs
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Contributing organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

Few after-school programs have developed strategies for attracting large numbers of teens, especially older and harder-to-serve youth. In response to this need, Madison Square Boys & Girls Club in New York City and Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston participated in a three-year initiative to enhance...
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Midcourse Corrections to a Major Initiative: A Report on The James Irvine Foundation's CORAL Initiative
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Contributing organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

This report draws lessons from the reorientation of the Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning (CORAL) initiative. CORAL is a $58 million initiative aimed at improving education achievement in low-performing schools in five California cities. The report outlines the inherent chal...
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Challenges and Opportunities in After-School Programs: Lessons for Policymakers and Funders
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Contributing organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

School-based after-school programs are increasingly becoming the solution policymakers suggest for many youth problems: unsupervised time, poor academic achievement, gang participation, violence and drug use. As federal spending increases, policymakers, funders and the public must balance thei...
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Multiple Choices After School: Findings from the Extended-Service Schools Initiative
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Contributing organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

In the summer of 2002, every state became eligible to receive federal funds for after-school programs. With this opportunity came the need to make decisions about the goals, design and content of after-school programming -- decisions that will influence which youth participate, what they exper...
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Short-term and Long-term Racial Disparities in VA and non-VA Hospital Outcomes
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Contributing organization(s): CHERP

This research used VA and Medicare data to examine racial patterns in short- and long-term mortality outcomes for elderly male black and white patients hospitalized for heart attack, stroke, hip fracture, congestive heart failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, and pneumonia from 1998 to 2002. The researchers found...
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From Options to Action: A Roadmap for City Leaders to Connect Formerly Incarcerated Individuals to Work Executive Summary
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Contributing organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

The executive summary of From Options to Action summarizes the six practical steps outlined in the full report for achieving a more coordinated, comprehensive approach to reentry at the city level:

Getting the Lay of the Land details the planning phases of citywide reentry initiatives, from id...
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