RAND research on children covers the prenatal period up to age 18 and includes areas such as child health and the role of the family unit, neighborhoods, and communities in influencing child well-being. RAND's family-focused research covers additional topics such as marriage and divorce, senior care, and family finances.
Research Brief
This research brief describes work documented in MR-1330-RWJ and MR-1330/1-RWJ.
Research Brief
Examines the main critiques of family planning programs and places these in historical context. Also examines the research record to assess the validity of these criticisms and to document how programs have evolved in response to these criticisms.
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This research brief describes work documented in Consequences of Welfare Reform: A Research Synthesis (DRU-2676-DHHS).
Research Brief
This research brief describes work documented in Consequences of Welfare Reform: A Research Synthesis (DRU-2676-DHHS).
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This research brief describes work documented in School-Based Drug Prevention: What Kind of Drug Use Does It Prevent? (MR-1459-RWJ).
Research Brief
A recent analysis by RAND's Drug Policy Research Center (DPRC) suggests that data typically used to support a marijuana gateway effect can be explained as well by a different theory.
Research Brief
This research brief describes work documented in Examining the Cost of Military Child Care (MR-1415-OSD).
Research Brief
Spurred by the piecemeal approach to school reform that had produced little change in student performance, New American Schools (NAS), a private nonprofit organization, launched its efforts for whole-school reform in 1991.
Report
This research examines the roles that policy analysts and policy research may play in improving the effectiveness of systems of care serving at-risk children and their families.
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Testimony submitted to the California State Senate Education Committee on April 24, 2002.
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Testimony presented before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness Committee on Education and the Workforce U.S. House of Representatives on October 16, 2001.
Commentary
Published commentary by RAND staff.
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So what happened as a result of the first five years of the VPI?
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The authors identify the conceptual and methodological issues associated with the analysis of costs and outcomes of early intervention programs and review the prior application of these methods to several programs.
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This report contains all the outputs of a project undertaken to review the structure and performance of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) and to assess options for strengthening it.
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Summarizes a larger report that describes the implementation of California's Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program in its first two years.
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A set of policy recommendations to promote the development and maintenance of communities in which children with asthma can be swiftly diagnosed, effectively treated, and protected from exposure to harmful environmental factors.
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The authors identify the private givers to public education, examine public-private partnerships that have developed and the mechanisms used to secure private resources, and identify the various types of private giving and how those contributions are used.
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Examined not only changes in the grade distribution over time but also changes in the educational system and in the characteristics of the student populations. No such grade inflation has taken place, at least in mathematics, over the study period.
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Business leaders created New American Schools, a private nonprofit corporation, in 1991 to develop break-the-mold designs for schools serving grades K-12. This report documents the significant changes in the designs that have taken place ...
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