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The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Final Impacts

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  • Allen Schirm
  • Elizabeth Stuart
  • Allison McKie

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From 1995 to 2001, the U.S. Department of Labor and the Ford Foundation ran a demonstration of the Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP), mainly an after-school program that also began offering intensive and comprehensive services to at-risk youth when they entered ninth grade.

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  • Allen Schirm & Elizabeth Stuart & Allison McKie, "undated". "The Quantum Opportunity Program Demonstration: Final Impacts," Mathematica Policy Research Reports ac481c0313ec4f7bbf036f563, Mathematica Policy Research.
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