Neighborhood Bridges Program Evaluation Report 3

This report examines the relationship between student participation in Neighborhood Bridges and their reading achievement as measured by the spring 2006 Minnesota Comprehensive Assessment (MCA-II) in reading. The report is the third in a series of reports from a three-year evaluation study of the Neighborhood Bridges (Bridges) program of the Children’s Theatre Company (CTC) in Minnesota. CTC contracted with the University of Minnesota’s Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement to evaluate Bridges as part of a grant CTC received from the Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination Program of the U.S. Department of Education.