Webinar on MDRC Research on Low-Wage Workers Now Available for Free Download from U.S. Department of Labor
In
September 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training
Administration hosted a Webinar entitled “Improving Labor Market
Success for Low-Wage Workers: MDRC’s Research on Job Retention and
Advancement Programs, Education Interventions, and Transitional Jobs
Programs.” More than 250 registrants participated. A recorded version of the Webinar is now available for free download. The accompanying PowerPoint is also available separately. (REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED)
Presenters:
- Dan Bloom , Director, MDRC, Welfare and Barriers to Employment Policy Area
- Rob Ivry , Senior Vice President, MDRC
- Frieda Molina , Senior Associate, MDRC, Low-Wage Workers and Communities Policy Area
- Regina Peruggi , President, Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY
- Susan Scrivener , Senior Associate, Young Adults and Post-Secondary Education Policy Area
Moderator:
- Maria K. Flynn , Administrator, Office of Policy Development and Research, Employment and Training Administration
The Webinar highlights research that MDRC is conducting, with support
from the Employment and Training Administration, on programs serving
low-wage workers, low-income students, and ex-prisoners returning to
society. In education, MDRC focuses on findings from its long-term evaluation of
Career Academy
high schools, which combine
small learning communities with
career-oriented curricula and with work experience, and on how
practitioners are using the research to improve their programs. This Webinar provides early findings from MDRC's
Opening Doors
demonstration, which is testing, at six community colleges, the effects
of enhanced student services, instructional reforms, and
performance-based scholarships on student grades, retention,
graduation, and labor market outcomes. The president of one of these
institutions, Kingsborough Community College, explains how they are
building on the
results of the study to expand learning communities programs for incoming freshmen.
