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20 Years After the Iraq War, China-Russia Ties, Correctional Education: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on reflecting on the Iraq War, the pandemic and prison education, North Korea’s latest threats, and more.
Mar 24, 2023
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Testimony presented before the Florida House of Representatives Education & Employment Committee on January 26, 2021.
Testimony presented before the Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee on April 25, 2018, and the Pennsylvania House and Senate Education Committees on April 30, 2018.
Testimony submitted before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on May 16, 2012.
Testimony presented before the Council of the District of Columbia, Committee of the Whole on February 16, 2012.
Testimony presented before the House Education and Labor Committee on February 7, 2007.
Testimony presented to the Oregon State Senate and House Judiciary Committees on March 17, 2005.
Testimony presented before the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness Committee on Education and the Workforce U.S. House of Representatives on October 16, 2001.
Testimony presented to the California State Assembly Select Committee on School Safety.
Testimony presented to the California Select Committee on the Master Plan for Education on August 1, 2006.
Testimony presented to the California Little Hoover Commission on June 23, 2005.
Testimony submitted to the California State Senate Education Committee on April 24, 2002.
Testimony presented to the California State Assembly Select Committee on School Safety.
This testimony reviews the findings of RAND/MR-682-OSTEP/ED, Fostering the Use of Educational Technology: Elements of a National Strategy.
This brief summarizes research by experts at the RAND Corporation and the University of Pittsburgh to advance automated writing scoring and feedback systems for elementary school student writers.
The Australian Dental Council's approach to dental program accreditation uses directive, anticipatory, strategic, stakeholder, and relational impact mechanisms to influence education providers and ensure graduates are sufficiently competent.
Cadets in the National Guard Youth Challenge (ChalleNGe) Program use a goal-setting process called the Post-Residential Action Plan (P-RAP) to navigate career and life choices. The authors analyzed the P-RAP process across multiple ChalleNGe sites.
The authors of this research identify a set of common skills among high-paying, growing occupations that do not require a bachelor's degree for possible incorporation into the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe program curriculum.
Findings show that investing in languages education in UK secondary schools will return more than the investment cost. The benefit-to-cost ratio is about 2:1, meaning that every £1 spent on extra language provision could return £2 for the economy.