abstract:MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research organization based in New York City and Oakland, CA. MDRC mounts large-scale demonstrations and uses randomized controlled trials to measure the effects of social and educational policy initiatives.
Goldman money funds the intervention through a social services provider, MDRC, who designs and oversees the city-run counseling and personal responsibility program for imprisoned adolescents.
Robert Ivry of MDRC, a research body that evaluates policies intended to help poorer Americans, believes that intervention is needed at several stages: to encourage at-risk high-school students to graduate, to foster contacts with future employers and to encourage those who go to college to stay there.