Events and Conferences

CSDP Forum: Revitalization Through Regulation? The Impacts of 2008 Regulatory Changes on the Ticket to Work Program

The Ticket to Work (TTW) program was developed to encourage the nearly 11 million working-age people on the disability rolls to find jobs and become economically self-sufficient. The program seeks to connect these individuals to job-related services via a wide array of qualified providers, called employment networks (ENs). In 2008, the Social Security Administration made several regulatory changes to TTW to boost EN and beneficiary participation in the program. In this disability policy forum and webinar, we examined: •Findings from a rigorous analysis of the impact of TTW on services, employment, and benefits in the years leading up to the regulatory changes •Changes in beneficiary participation in TTW after the regulatory changes and the extent to which participants forgo benefits because they are working •Changes in EN participation and business models after the regulatory changes •The impact of the economic recession and the labor market on participant and provider outcomes in return-to-work efforts

Equal Access to Effective Teaching: What New Research Has to Say About the Problem and a Possible Solution

Do disadvantaged students have equal access to effective teachers? If not, can incentives be used to address the problem?

Disability Research and Policy: New Evidence and Promising Ideas

This two-day research meeting, October 15 and 16, 2013, focused on efforts of the Disability Research Consortium to build the evidence base necessary to improve the national disability support system and the lives of people with disabilities, while also reducing the long-term growth in government costs.

Addressing Teacher Shortages in Disadvantaged Schools: Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification and Student Achievement

Schools serving low-income students struggle to attract effective teachers. Alternative routes to teacher certification are one strategy intended to help fill teacher shortages by providing a fast-track into the profession, enabling teachers to begin teaching before completing all the requirements for certification.