Evaluation of the Bridge Initiative’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Efforts
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation commissioned SPR to conduct a formative implementation and summative evaluation of its Bridge Initiative to support school districts’ COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.
Read more » How Apprenticeship Programs for Opportunity Youth Stay Resilient Through the COVID-19 Recession
A product of an apprenticeship expansion and modernization effort supported by the US Department of Labor, with JFF, the National Association of Workforce Boards, the Rural Youth Catalyst Project, and SPR, this report documents strategies for sustaining and expanding Registered…
Read more » Final Report: Beacon Community School Evaluation
In the summer of 2019, SPR was hired by the Department of Children Youth and Families (DCYF) in San Francisco to conduct an implementation and outcomes evaluation of the expansion of the Beacon Community School model. The evaluation was significantly…
Read more » Collaborating to Meet the Moment: Lessons Learned from Our Evaluations of Cross-Sector Partnerships
March 15, 2020 marked the beginning of the COVID-19 “lockdown” when states across the country began issuing “shelter-in-place” orders, restricting public gatherings, and school systems were ordered to close, in an effort to stem the rapid spread of the deadly…
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