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First Outcomes from the National Summer Learning Study
Five urban school districts are offering voluntary summer learning programs free of charge to struggling elementary students as part of a project to determine whether these kinds of programs improve low-income student outcomes.
Feb 13, 2015
The Growing Strategic Threat of Radical Islamist Ideology
The threat posed by ISIS is expanding through the Middle East, North Africa, and other areas of the world. While that threat is portrayed as terrorism, a greater danger is ideology tied to extremism and violence.
Feb 12, 2015
Filling the Knowledge Gap in Health IT Value
Too many studies intended to evaluate health information technology are limited by incomplete measures of value, and fail to report important details about the context and adoption of the technology. Studies that evaluate the technology over longer periods of time are needed to provide a more-robust picture of its costs and benefits to patients, health providers, and those who pay for health care.
Feb 10, 2015
Assessing Options for Public Health Emergency Planning and Response
When public health emergencies arise, policymakers must assess and compare interventions to determine the best way forward. Using Ebola as an example, RAND developed a simple, practical, proof-of-concept tool that may fill gaps in a decisionmaker's ability to systematically assess options in a public health emergency.
Feb 9, 2015
How Does Enrollment of Young Invincibles Affect Premiums in the ACA Individual Market?
Using the COMPARE microsimulation model, researchers estimated the effects of reduced enrollment of young adults (invincibles) in the individual health insurance market. Results indicate that reduced enrollment of invincibles is associated with only modest premium increases.
Feb 5, 2015
The Days After a Deal with Iran: Implications for the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
A final nuclear deal with Iran would have implications for the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Slowing or stopping Iran's nuclear development is an important nonproliferation accomplishment, but the international community will need to find ways to mitigate some of the deal's negative consequences.
Feb 2, 2015
The Role of the USAF in the Days After a Deal with Iran
The U.S. will face a complex set of policy issues and trade-offs in the aftermath of a nuclear agreement with Iran. The U.S. Air Force should see itself as having a role in informing senior-level policy discussions as to how its military posture in the region could be designed in support of alternative U.S. policies toward Iran.
Feb 2, 2015
The Days After a Deal with Iran: Congress's Role in Implementing a Nuclear Agreement
The president has extensive authority under the law to provide sanctions relief to Iran as part of a comprehensive nuclear agreement. Nevertheless, Congress can take a range of steps to facilitate, hinder, or even block the executive branch's efforts.
Feb 2, 2015
Advancing the Careers of Military Spouses
Military spouses face challenges related to military life that can make it difficult for them to maintain and develop careers. The My Career Advancement Account (MyCAA) scholarship is one program designed to help them, but only one in five eligible spouses reported using it.
Jan 27, 2015
Enhancing Army Airborne Forces
U.S. Army airborne forces could play a pivotal role in key missions in the future, particularly against hybrid threats and in anti-access environments. However, they face serious threats that could become more severe. To overcome these new threats, the airborne force will need new capabilities.
Jan 26, 2015
More Daring Ideas to Form Health Policy: Why Not?
When it comes to health policy, there are two basic approaches: (1) cautious and careful, or (2) disruptive and daring. The former is less threatening, but what might happen if decision makers were more driven by creativity and less concerned about regulations?
Jan 23, 2015
Improving the Recruiting and Hiring of Los Angeles Firefighters
The city of Los Angeles should revise its hiring process for firefighters in ways that increase diversity among highly-competitive applicants, minimize processing demands on the city, and create greater transparency for applicants in minimum qualifications and selection criteria.
Jan 22, 2015
Options and Issues Regarding Marijuana Legalization
Marijuana legalization is a controversial and multifaceted issue that is now the subject of serious debate. Policy should not be viewed as a binary choice between prohibition and the for-profit commercial model seen in Colorado and Washington State.
Jan 21, 2015
The Cost of Elderly Caregiving
Family members and friends spend 30 billion hours each year providing care for their elderly loved ones. These caregivers are giving up valuable time, either from their jobs or from other potentially productive activities. What is the annual price tag of this informal care—and how might it be offset?
Jan 20, 2015
High-Priority Information Technology Needs for Law Enforcement
Law enforcement's knowledge of information technology and its dissemination can be improved. A federal coordinator for technology-related outreach should be designated; this coordinator would work with various offices involved to develop and monitor a dissemination strategy.
Jan 19, 2015
Is It Possible to Distinguish Good Teaching from Classroom Composition?
Measuring disadvantaged students' access to effective teachers requires examining the relationship between teachers' value-added estimates and the characteristics of their students. Research simulations investigate this relationship and may also help inform analysts' choices for the appropriate value-added models.
Jan 19, 2015
The Marijuana Legalization Debate
Marijuana policy should not be viewed as a binary choice between prohibition and the for-profit commercial model seen in Colorado and Washington. Legalization encompasses a wide range of possible regimes.
Jan 16, 2015
Insights for Vermont and Other States Considering Marijuana Legalization
If Vermont chooses to remove its prohibition on producing and selling marijuana, lawmakers will have many choices to make about who will supply it, who can buy it, if and how it will be taxed, and how it will be regulated. There are pros and cons to all policy options as well as uncertainty about how different forms of legalization will affect public health and safety.
Jan 16, 2015
The Conflict in Syria: Regional Spillover Effects
The literature on armed conflict shows that external military support, large numbers of refugees, and the fragility of neighboring states contribute to the spread of violence from civil war and insurgency.
Jan 16, 2015
Predictive Model Could Apply to Medicare Physician Fee Schedule
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services uses a resource-based relative value (RBRV) scale to calculate payments for physicians. The values of the scale were validated with predictive modeling, and the result may be helpful in two key applications: flagging codes as potentially misvalued and determining why a code is valued differently than predicted.
Jan 16, 2015

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