Since its launch in 1996, Connecticut’s Jobs First program has attracted national attention because it includes all the key elements of the 1990s welfare reforms: time limits, financial work incentives, and work requirements. Specifically, Jobs First limits families to 21…
Connecticut’s Jobs First program is a statewide welfare reform initiative that began operating in January 1996. Jobs First was one of the earliest statewide programs to impose a time limit on welfare receipt: Families are limited to 21 months of…
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/fl_final_transition.pdf Final Report Launched in 1994, Florida’s pilot Family Transition Program (FTP) was the first welfare reform initiative in which some families reached a time limit on their welfare eligibility and had their benefits canceled. Today, almost all states have…
Florida's Family Transition Program (FTP) combines a welfare time limit of 24-36 months with services, requirements, and financial incentives designed to help welfare recipients find and hold jobs. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED407606
This website from partner, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has a very well stocked section on Executive Function. "Materials that describe what executive function skills are, provides examples of programs that build executive function skills or use executive function…
Building Better Programs, from partner Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Includes recorded webinar and slides. http://www.buildingbetterprograms.org/2015/05/27/executive-functions-what-they-are-and-why-they-matter/
Building Better Programs, from partner Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. Includes recorded webinar and slides. http://www.buildingbetterprograms.org/2015/07/22/using-an-executive-function-informed-goal-achievement-framework-to-redesign-employment-programs/
The term ‘non-cognitive skills’ refers to a set of attitudes, behaviours, and strategies that are thought to underpin success in school and at work, such as motivation, perseverance, and self-control. Despite growing interest in this topic, the causal relationship between non-cognitive skills…
Teacher Expectations Matter paper, August 2016 "We provide novel, arguably causal evidence that teacher expectations affect students’ educational attainment. On average, teachers are overly optimistic about students’ ability to complete a four-year college degree. However, the degree of over-optimism of…
Article in 2016 American Economic Review, 106(5):435-40, Shilbach et al. https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/psychological_lives_of_the_poor.pdf