Intervention: Project GRAD

Intervention: Project GRAD
July 30, 2007

References

Met WWC standards with reservations

Houston study
Snipes, J. C., Holton, G. I., Doolittle, F., & Sztejnberg, L. (2006). Striving for student success: The effect of Project GRAD on high school student outcomes in three urban school districts. New York, NY: MDRC.

Did not meet WWC standards

Atlanta study
Snipes, J. C., Holton, G. I., Doolittle, F., & Sztejnberg, L. (2006). Striving for student success: The effect of Project GRAD on high school student outcomes in three urban school districts. New York, NY: MDRC. ⁶

Columbus study
Snipes, J. C., Holton, G. I., Doolittle, F., & Sztejnberg, L. (2006). Striving for student success: The effect of Project GRAD on high school student outcomes in three urban school districts. New York, NY: MDRC. ⁶

Opuni, K. (1999). Project GRAD: Graduation Really Achieves Dreams. 1998–99 program evaluation report. Houston, TX: University of Houston. ⁷

Opuni, K., & Ochoa, M. (2002). Project GRAD: A comprehensive school reform model. Houston, TX: University of Houston. ⁷

⁶ Confound: there was only one school in each study condition, so the analysis could not separate the effects of the intervention from the effects of the school.
⁷ The study did not use a comparison group.

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