Events and Conferences

Sign Up for a Free Webinar on Improving Attendance in Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten

Chronic absenteeism is particularly high in the early grades, compared with elementary and middle school. For a young child to succeed and develop a strong foundation for learning, he or she must attend school regularly.

Does School Choice Leave Anyone Behind?

At Mathematica, we’re uncovering evidence about the effects of school choice policies on nonparticipating students and schools. Learn more about our systematic review, which covers two decades of relevant research and evaluation.

Join Us and Partners for a Grantmakers for Education Webinar—Making the Case: Establishing Evidence to Support Practitioners, Strategy, and Outcomes

Interested in learning how to build more evidence into philanthropic practice? Join Mathematica, The Wallace Foundation, and the Afterschool Alliance for a Grantmakers for Education webinar.

Innovations in Medicare ACOs’ Approaches to Care Delivery Improvement

Hear from ACOs about their approaches to improving care delivery, and from CMS about new policy opportunities.

Developing Culturally Responsive Educators in Pre-Service Programs

This webinar explored how best to prepare educators to implement culturally responsive pedagogy, including and exploration of how programs train future teachers and school administrators and what changes programs may need to consider to effectively prepare these educators.

Implementing District and School Policies and Practices to Support Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

This webinar explored how a school and district have approached the challenge of implementing culturally responsive practice. It elaborated on programs, policies, and practices that were implemented to support efforts to achieve equity and use culturally responsive pedagogy.

Research and Practice in Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and How to Sustain Systemic Changes

This webinar explored research on culturally responsive pedagogy and what is known about its effectiveness.

Seeing Is Believing: Visualizing Data for Evidence-Based Policymaking

While many industries have increasingly turned to data science to make informed business decisions, social service organizations and government agencies have been slower to fully embrace the potential of current and emerging data science methods. The challenges are real.

A Framework for Educational Equity and Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

This webinar defined educational inequity and discussed its implications. It included a brief introduction to culturally responsive pedagogy and what broader systemic changes may be necessary to implement equity and culturally responsive pedagogy.

Progress Together: Becoming Data Driven

Mathematica brought together leaders from a variety of sectors to discuss the challenges of becoming data driven and offer action-oriented, accessible advice on how organizations can take their first steps, or their next steps, to progress together.

Understanding the Power of Long-Term Impact Evaluations

International development programs are designed to make lasting and positive improvements in the health, education, and income of disadvantaged people around the world.

Serving Medicaid Beneficiaries Who Need Long-Term Services and Supports: Better Outcomes at Lower Costs

In the past two decades, many federal and state Medicaid initiatives have been designed to rebalance the long-term services and supports (LTSS) system by increasing access to home and community-based services (HCBS) in order to reduce the use of expensive institutional care.

Webinar: Preparing Leaders to Make a Difference for Students and Schools

Recognizing that school leaders play a critical role in school performance, states and districts are rethinking how they prepare principals. But this retooling of preparation programs raises a number of important questions: What skills do new principals need? How can we identify aspiring principals with the potential to develop those competencies? And how can we use these insights to improve the training of leaders at all levels of the system, from teacher leaders to principal supervisors?

American Association for Public Opinion Research Annual Conference

REL Webinar: Using Teacher Feedback in School Leader Evaluations

The goal of the webinar is to expand local and state leaders’ knowledge of teacher survey instruments to enhance the evaluation of school leaders.

Webinar: Strengthening Principal Preparation Through On-the-Job Training

A key challenge for policymakers is creating a pipeline of principals who are prepared to serve as instructional leaders. Districts often use the assistant principal position as a training ground for new principals. Yet little is known about how to design and implement on-the-job training opportunities that prepare assistant principals to serve as principals.

Webinar: Learning Together to Prevent Homelessness for Youth and Young Adults with Child Welfare Involvement

Since 2013, six diverse organizations across the country have been working to prevent homelessness among young people with child welfare histories through a grant program run by the Children’s Bureau, part of the Administration for Children and Families within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Comparative and International Education Society Annual Conference

Several researchers from Mathematica’s international unit will present and chair sessions at the 63rd annual meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society. The sessions will highlight the insights that we are uncovering with our partners in the areas of literacy, life skills training, workforce development and education in accordance with this year’s theme, “Education for Sustainability.”

Improving Transition Outcomes for Youth SSI Recipients: Early Findings from the PROMISE Evaluation

Mathematica’s Center for Studying Disability Policy hosted a webinar to discuss insights from the PROMISE evaluation.

Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting

SRCD is…International, Interdisciplinary, and Relevant

Extending Child Support Cooperation Requirements: The State Perspective

Single parents are required to cooperate with child support enforcement activities to be eligible for some public assistance programs, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Medicaid.

Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness

"Tensions and Tradeoffs: Responding to Diverse Demands for Evidence"

REL Mid-Atlantic Event: Using Teacher Feedback in Principal Evaluation

REL Mid-Atlantic conducted the second session of a two-part, in-person workshop to help district and school leaders better understand prospects for using teacher surveys in school leader evaluations.

New Evidence of the ACA’s Effect on People with Disabilities: Health Insurance, Employment, and Benefits

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 changed several aspects of the law concerning access to health insurance that were particularly salient for people with disabilities. These changes included removing limits on preexisting conditions, extending parent’s health insurance coverage of young adults until the age of 26, expanding Medicaid to more adults with low incomes, and making it easier to obtain affordable coverage outside the traditional employer-sponsored benefit system.

REL Mid-Atlantic Event: Refining Delaware Stars for Early Success: Workshop for the Office of Early Learning

Delaware, like many states, wants to refine its quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) for early childhood care and education (ECE) settings (known as Delaware Stars for Early Success, or Delaware Stars) to ensure consistency in quality within each level, distinguish quality between levels, and ensure the validity of the ratings (specifically, that programs that earn higher ratings lead to better outcomes for children). The goal of this workshop is to support a redesign effort through review of research, facilitated discussion, and lessons from other states.

Measure Twice, Cut Once: Analyzing Administrative Data to Understand Pre-employment Transition Services

Nothing About Us Without Us: How the Need for Cultural Responsiveness is Changing Research

There is increased awareness and urgency within the research community to ensure that evaluation and assessment practices are sensitive to the cultures of people who are most impacted by those practices. Driven by changing demographics and the increasing complexity of problems that researchers and communities seek to address, new efforts are underway to develop research practices that better account for the unique perspectives and needs of the communities being studied. But there is hardly consensus on what culturally responsive research actually means or, more broadly, what implications such approaches could have on evidence-based policies and programs.