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Capabilities-Based Planning Can Enhance Energy Security at DoD Installations — Feb 20, 2013

Energy security strategies are needed because DoD installations rely on the U.S. commercial electricity grid which is vulnerable to disruption from natural hazards and actor-induced outages, such as physical or cyber attacks.

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Multiple Choices: Options for Measuring Teaching Effectiveness — Dec 5, 2012

What does effective teaching look like, and how can it be measured? Some methods for measuring teaching effectiveness examine teachers' practices directly, whereas others emphasize student outcomes. Each method involves trade-offs, however, and no single method provides a complete picture of a teacher's effectiveness.

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Flattening the Trajectory of Health Care Spending: Insights from RAND Health Research — Dec 5, 2012

RAND Health research supports four strategies to restrain health care spending growth and maintain quality: foster efficient and accountable providers, engage and empower consumers, promote population health, and facilitate high-value innovation.

Contributing to the Public Good: Sponsoring Individual Projects

Private donors have made a significant contribution to the public interest in recent years by funding individual research projects at RAND, including

Foundations have also played an important role in advancing RAND's research agenda, with such projects as

Reframing the debate about the benefits of the arts and other arts-related research (The Wallace Foundation)
Studying the way legal and regulatory policymaking affect small businesses and entrepreneurship (Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation)
Examining early childhood education, including research into the potential effects of universal preschool programs (The David and Lucille Packard Foundation)
Improving geriatric health care through interdisciplinary research centers (The John A. Hartford Foundation)