2009-11-18T13:30:00Z Copyright (c) 2007-2008, The RAND Corporation Bricolage RAND Corporation urn:uuid:DD692316-4FF8-11DB-9EEF-35351D4D57CE urn:uuid:9211247A-ADC1-11DE-8B90-3FC038788F35 2009-10-15T00:00:00Z 2009-10-15T00:00:00Z

The New York City Department of Education's test-based promotion and retention policy, which identifies and provides support for struggling students, has demonstrated positive effects for student achievement in fifth grade that continue into seventh grade.

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In this summary of the efforts to reform Qatar University, the authors describe the motivation for reform, the design of the reform agenda, and the early stages of the implementation effort, with an eye toward identifying the challenges that remain.

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Effective counterinsurgency is dependent on understanding the local population. A survey of those living in Iraq's Anbar Province (once one of the country's most violent areas), reveals both the many improvements that have occurred, as well as the extent to which these Iraqis have suffered from the effects of war.

urn:uuid:656B535C-80F1-11DE-B9D4-D5D438788F35 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z 2009-08-13T00:00:00Z

The RAND Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition recently hosted a workshop that gave analysts and policymakers from many countries a collaborative opportunity to explore new methods and tools that can help improve long-term decisionmaking.

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Exposure to community and interpersonal violence is a public health crisis affecting many children in the U.S., causing mental health and behavioral problems, substance abuse, and poor school performance. The SSET program is a series of ten lessons that aims to reduce distress resulting from exposure to trauma.

urn:uuid:682C9D48-46FF-11DE-A5BB-51C038788F35 2009-06-15T00:00:00Z 2009-06-15T00:00:00Z

Since 2005, three new vaccines for teenagers have been licensed in the U.S. Although the majority of 13-17-year-olds have received recommended vaccines, rates remain below 2010 targets, and the coverage rates for low-income adolescents and minority youth are likely to be lower.

urn:uuid:447618EC-44A3-11DE-8A82-A3F438788F35 2009-05-28T00:00:00Z 2009-05-28T00:00:00Z

In an era of fiscal crisis, California can still improve access and quality in its early childhood education system through low-cost improvements, such as adopting efficiencies and better use of existing resources. Such measures will also allow the system to lay the foundation for greater improvements in the future when more resources are available.

urn:uuid:F4EBC284-2456-11DE-9581-52C038788F35 2009-04-08T00:00:00Z 2009-04-08T00:00:00Z

A set of five policy briefs address key education priorities for the Obama administration and the 111th Congress. Each brief summarizes the current research on the topic and the implications for federal policymakers.

urn:uuid:2DDBFD8A-0CA5-11DE-959B-23C138788F35 2009-03-18T00:00:00Z 2009-03-18T00:00:00Z

Along with the growth of the charter school movement has come contentious debate about its effects on both charter students and those in nearby traditional public schools. This study helps determine why previous research has drawn differing conclusions through its examination of charter schools' effect on overall educational attainment.

urn:uuid:56353222-F451-11DD-AF09-12D538788F35 2009-02-27T00:00:00Z 2009-02-27T00:00:00Z

The technological development and cultural acceptance of e-books today parallels the state, but the majority remain simply digitized versions of print books and offer no new tools. This paper examines three examples of innovative e-books in order to illustrate the potential and pitfalls of electronic publications.

urn:uuid:526F7E52-EED6-11DD-8D8D-50C038788F35 2009-02-13T00:00:00Z 2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

China's Tianjin Binhai New Area (TBNA) and Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) can best spur regional development and economic growth by focusing on emerging high-technology applications, including molecular-scale drug development and green manufacturing.

urn:uuid:D3659072-E6F3-11DD-8309-51C038788F35 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A key aim of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) is to provide school choice or supplemental educational services to predominantly low-income parents whose children are attending Title I schools identified for improvement, but in recent years only a small fraction of families have taken advantage of these options.

urn:uuid:F18D1B10-DBF4-11DD-A3AD-4CC038788F35 2009-02-05T00:00:00Z 2009-02-05T00:00:00Z

The first multi-dimensional effort to quantify the disparities faced by African-American and Latino boys and men in California across a broad spectrum of health and social factors provides a disquieting outlook for their lives.

urn:uuid:C34B9D6C-ECA2-11DD-BD4D-34C238788F35 2009-02-04T00:00:00Z 2009-02-04T00:00:00Z

The economic cost of methamphetamine use in the United States reached $23.4 billion in 2005, including the burden of addiction, premature death, drug treatment and many other aspects of the drug.

urn:uuid:925081A0-B1BA-11DD-9F13-5DFE38788F35 2009-01-15T00:00:00Z 2009-01-15T00:00:00Z

Facing serious funding challenges, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh needs to explore new ways to secure adequate and stable funding, engage patrons and other stakeholders, and evaluate what services it offers.

urn:uuid:C97FC284-A67B-11DD-94C3-FDCC38788F35 2008-11-18T03:00:00Z 2008-11-18T03:00:00Z

State arts agencies — key players within the U.S. system of public support for the arts — face a wide varitey of challenges to their typical roles as grantmakers. The author concludes that future state arts policy is likely to focus more on efforts to develop the creative economy and to grow the audience for the arts.

urn:uuid:BF41A7EE-A4E9-11DD-90E7-51C038788F35 2008-11-12T03:00:00Z 2008-11-12T03:00:00Z

This study assesses the state of the art in determining the economic value of social programs for use in benefit-cost analysis (BCA). It finds that rarely are the benefits of social programs consistently or accurately monetized and suggests ways to advance the use of BCA in evaluating social programs' economic returns.

urn:uuid:7CE5FA44-A02F-11DD-8C2F-51C038788F35 2008-11-10T03:00:00Z 2008-11-10T03:00:00Z

This update to a 2007 study on provides an additional year of data on the strategies states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and how these strategies are associated with classroom practices and student achievement in mathematics and science.

urn:uuid:062E9D12-991C-11DD-833C-58C038788F35 2008-10-31T03:00:00Z 2008-10-31T03:00:00Z

Education and labor market initiatives are under way in four Arab nations -- Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates -- to address the challenges of developing the human capital of their populations for the 21st century global economy, though better evaluation of the implemented reforms will be needed to determine their efficacy.

urn:uuid:35EB0D0C-8976-11DD-83EE-58C038788F35 2008-10-10T03:00:00Z 2008-10-10T03:00:00Z

A detailed review of five Los Angeles home-based programs determines how their current practices compare with the literature on best practices in corrections, and assigns scores to each for their ability to deliver quality interventions and services for offenders.