Educational facilities include not only classrooms but also athletic facilities and playgrounds, and even libraries off school property. RAND studies have examined the role that educational facilities have on influencing education, academic achievement, and child health and well-being.
Research conducted by: RAND Education; RAND Europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
This study examines an anonymous urban district that, faced with declining enrollment, chose to make student achievement a major criterion in determining which schools would be closed. The district targeted low-performing schools in its closure plan, and sought to move their students to higher-performing schools.
COMMENTARY
What Pittsburgh attraction provides $3 of economic output for every public dollar invested? The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. If you find this factoid unlikely, it is because the research that discovered it received an astounding lack of attention, write Susan Everingham and Sally Sleeper.
NEWS RELEASE
April 19, 2007 news release: RAND Study Finds School Playgrounds and Athletic Facilities Are an Untapped Resource in Fight Against Childhood Obesity.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
For many community colleges, expanding enrollment demands coincide with shrinking resources, confronting policymakers with multiple competing constituencies of discouraged college-goers.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) Council is the lead strategic agency for museums, libraries and archives in England. It is part of the wider MLA Partnership, working with nine regional agencies. With the aim to develop an inclusive strategy for all 10 MLA Partnership members, the responsible team of officers asked RAND Europe to examine the research commissioned by the 10 organisations in recent years.
RESEARCH BRIEF
This research brief describes work documented in Nonclassroom-Based Charter Schools in California and the Impact of SB 740 (MG-323-EDU).
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Currently, charter schools represent one of the fastest growing movements of educational reform.
REPORT
Federal spending for scientific research at U.S. academic institutions equals approximately $15 billion each year. According to the analysis in this report, about three-quarters of this amount supports the direct costs of conducting research.
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