Policy Studies at RAND: Education and Human Resources.

John A. Pincus

Expert InsightsPublished 1971

Summarizes RAND research in education, manpower policy, discrimination, and poverty from 1967 through October 1971. RAND's work is interdisciplinary, policy-oriented, cost conscious, and part of larger research on social problems. The approach combines assistance to all levels of governance with sustained work on major methodology and policy issues. Research sponsors include UNESCO (assisting Indonesian education), Ford, Carnegie, President's Commissions on school finance and on population growth and the future, USOE, OEO, HEW, California State agencies, school districts, and RAND itself. In practice, the major engines of reform will probably be judicial rulings, large sustained pilot programs--vouchers, experimental schools and educational television, performance contracts--and systematic R&D. Analysis requires a better understanding of the relation between schooling and other elements of people's lives. A first requirement is effective evaluation methods in a nonexperimental setting. 46 pp.

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Pincus, John A., Policy Studies at RAND: Education and Human Resources. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1971. https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P4721.html.
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