2008-09-05T14:32:15Z Copyright (c) 2007-2008, The RAND Corporation Bricolage RAND Corporation urn:uuid:C24BF180-2F27-11DC-A4F4-64E9D44B69C5 urn:uuid:CF0E14B4-5A8E-11DD-95BF-59C038788F35 2008-09-03T07:56:00Z 2008-09-05T12:45:18Z

Describes a common operating picture for the Air Force materiel sustainment system that, if implemented, would make the system more efficient and more responsive to changing operational needs.

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Demonstrate how Edison Schools, Inc., intends to promote educators' capacity, motivation, and opportunity to deliver high-quality instruction, and examines the variation that occurs across Edison schools.

urn:uuid:02A49A5E-6A35-11DD-A7CB-58C038788F35 2008-08-28T06:01:00Z 2008-08-28T06:02:00Z

Presents results from a RAND evaluation of the implementation and impact of the reading coach program in Florida middle schools.

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This research brief reports the results of a study examining the implementation and effectiveness of a middle school reading coach program in Florida.

urn:uuid:4E6511C0-6545-11DD-9B28-58C038788F35 2008-08-28T05:16:00Z 2008-08-28T05:17:00Z

The U.S. Navy is looking for ways to reduce the annual operating costs of the fleet. RAND examines whether and how an increased use of simulators could reduce costly underway training days for DDG-51-class ships while sustaining readiness.

urn:uuid:756FE448-6EB9-11DD-BE15-49FA38788F35 2008-08-27T08:01:25Z 2008-08-27T08:08:00Z

Describes how democracy in South Korea has turned obstacles into opportunities for reform and development.

urn:uuid:316CCAB4-703E-11DD-910D-58C038788F35 2008-08-27T07:59:00Z 2008-09-02T09:54:24Z

Discusses the benefits of using randomized trials and cost-effectiveness analyses to evaluate development programs and presents the results of a cost-effectiveness analysis of education interventions in low-income countries.

urn:uuid:8018B138-6E21-11DD-ABBE-49FA38788F35 2008-08-27T07:13:00Z 2008-08-27T07:14:00Z

This fact sheet summarizes research suggesting that there are basic privacy issues that need to be resolved in the implementation of a national health information network.

urn:uuid:D217CF60-5A8E-11DD-95BF-59C038788F35 2008-08-25T06:43:00Z 2008-09-02T10:50:54Z

Analyzes the reason for the comparatively high growth in the cost of space systems by means of an in-depth study of two systems: SBIRS-High and GPS.

urn:uuid:4A721F92-4EAF-11DD-B037-E4D638788F35 2008-08-25T06:18:00Z 2008-09-02T11:13:51Z

This analysis of escalation dynamics and approaches to escalation management draws on a range of historical examples from World War I through Somalia in the early 1990s to inform escalation-related decisionmaking.

urn:uuid:8AE94DBE-5988-11DD-B8FB-0DC138788F35 2008-08-20T07:30:00Z 2008-08-20T07:31:00Z

This technical report describes the F-15 programmed depot maintenance (PDM) process as performed at the Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (WR-ALC) in FYs 2004-2006, assessing PDM duration and the challenges the process faces.

urn:uuid:3405C062-5DA8-11DD-9CE5-59C038788F35 2008-08-20T06:41:00Z 2008-08-25T09:19:33Z

Provides an overview of empirical research on the effects that educational quality has on a community, including the impacts that education has on health, employment and earnings, housing values, tax revenues, and civic participation.

urn:uuid:AA5DB3C6-42A7-11DD-BD30-E1BD38788F35 2008-08-19T11:59:00Z 2008-08-19T12:00:00Z

Examines the practice of not standardizing the test scores that are part of the U.S. Air Force enlisted promotion system and discusses possible standardization strategies.

urn:uuid:F5A606C2-63AD-11DD-8633-DAEA38788F35 2008-08-18T21:02:00Z 2008-08-21T08:10:47Z

U.S. railroads have improved their productivity, but increasing freight volume threatens to cause performance-degrading capacity constraints. This report describes the current state of railroad capacity and performance for freight transportation.

urn:uuid:FAA892F2-63AD-11DD-8633-DAEA38788F35 2008-08-18T11:33:00Z 2008-09-02T11:35:31Z

As the Bush administration's first special envoy to Afghanistan, Ambassador Dobbins helped the Afghans assemble a successor government to the Taliban. His memoir explains why the United States has failed to stabilize either Afghanistan or Iraq.

urn:uuid:F9B48FF4-63AD-11DD-8633-DAEA38788F35 2008-08-18T10:39:00Z 2008-09-02T07:15:00Z

Offering insights into vital questions of national security, presidential decisionmaking, and terrorist motives, world-renowned terrorism expert Brian Michael Jenkins examines how terrorists think about nuclear weapons and nuclear terror.

urn:uuid:322E31A2-6320-11DD-8ECF-DAEA38788F35 2008-08-15T10:46:00Z 2008-08-15T10:47:00Z

The cover story contains 11 essays that forecast 11 ''issues over the horizon''; other articles discuss the invisible wounds of war, visions of the future, colleges in prisons, and nuclear deterrence for the modern age.

urn:uuid:F783BC1E-63AD-11DD-8633-DAEA38788F35 2008-08-13T06:59:00Z 2008-08-13T07:49:00Z

This fact sheet provides an overview of the Institute of Medicine's quality improvement framework for behavioral health care and highlights current quality improvement projects that incorporate the framework's recommendations.

urn:uuid:F2C7A892-67DC-11DD-A1D0-58C038788F35 2008-08-13T06:59:00Z 2008-08-13T07:50:00Z

This fact sheet summarizes a study examining the variation of the intake of fruits and vegetables for blacks, whites, and Mexican Americans, in addition to the relationship between neighborhood socioeconomic status and this intake.

urn:uuid:49C90CCC-4441-11DD-B672-BEBE38788F35 2008-08-13T05:20:00Z 2008-08-13T05:21:00Z

This report explores why, in recent decades, military fixed-wing aircraft costs have escalated faster than the rates of inflation, examining both economy-driven factors that the Services cannot control and customer-driven ones that they can.