Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
Focus on Poverty, IRP’s flagship online publication, includes brief essays summarizing current poverty and policy research for non-researchers. The collection is prepared for educators, policymakers, policy analysts, and state and federal officials. Each issue is accompanied by Focus on Poverty Classroom Supplement, a college classroom resource, which includes additional information and web links on the topics covered in Focus on Poverty.
Resources
Introduction to the Issue, 29(2)
- Timothy M. Smeeding
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
Hard evidence on soft skills
- James J. Heckman
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
A Year Up
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
Year Up: Providing a pathway from poverty to a professional career for urban young adults
- Gerald Chertavian; Reaction by Carolyn Heinrich
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
How does Year Up measure up?
- Carolyn Heinrich
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
Response from the author
- Gerald Chertavian
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
Value-added measures of teachers: Research and policy
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
The long-term effects of teachers
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
Effects of value-added policies
- Jesse Rothstein
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
Use of value added in teacher policy measures
- Eric A. Hanushek
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013