Report
A New Methodology for Conducting Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA): With Illustrations from the F-22 Product Support BCA
This document explains how to apply guidance on project evaluation to product support business case analyses in a way that allows senior Department of Defense decisionmakers to use net present value to compare courses of action.
Jun 13, 2017
Report
Robust Stormwater Management in the Pittsburgh Region: A Pilot Study
This report provides an independent study of how the stormwater problem in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania metropolitan region could grow with future change, and discusses potential long-term solutions using new analytical approaches developed by RAND.
Apr 24, 2017
Report
Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: Report No. 2 (2017)
This report focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education indicators in twenty-seven counties in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
Mar 22, 2017
Research Brief
Kids Who Attend More Benefit More: Voluntary Summer Learning Programs
This brief summarizes the outcomes of two summers of voluntary academic programming (2013 and 2014) on 3,192 low-income urban students accepted into the programs who had completed third grade before the first summer.
Sep 7, 2016
Infographic
Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
This infographic summarizes several student outcomes from an assessment of five voluntary, district-led summer learning programs offered at no cost to low-income, urban elementary students.
Sep 7, 2016
Report
Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
RAND researchers assess voluntary, district-led summer learning programs for low-income, urban elementary students. This third report in a series examines student outcomes after one and two summers of programming.
Sep 7, 2016
Report
Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: Report No. 1 (2016)
This first of five reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing-related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education indicators in the Appalachia Partnership Initiative region.
Mar 9, 2016
Draft
Personalized Learning Instructional Staff Survey Results (Spring 2014)
Descriptively summarizes instructional staff responses to a survey administered by RAND in 23 personalized learning (PL) schools in Spring 2014.
Nov 5, 2014