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Report

Jul 6, 2022

The Impact and Implementation of the Chicago Collaborative Teacher Professional Development Program

The authors evaluated the Leading Educators Chicago Collaborative, a teacher professional development program aligned to Common Core State Standards, examining the program's implementation and its impact on student achievement.
News Release

Dec 4, 2019

District-Level, Real-Time Crime Centers Can Help Police Reduce Crime Levels

District-level police crime centers that use technology such as remote cameras and analytic tools to support commanders' strategic decisionmaking may be able to help reduce crime.
Report

Dec 4, 2019

Real-Time Crime Centers in Chicago: Evaluation of the Chicago Police Department's Strategic Decision Support Centers

The Chicago Police Department's Strategic Decision Support Centers (SDSCs) serve as command, control, and communications hubs. In this report, the authors evaluate the processes, organizational structures, and technologies employed in the SDSCs.
Journal Article

Jun 30, 2017

The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Private Law Enforcement: Evidence from University Police

This paper seeks new evidence on the impact of private police on crime, exploiting a unique setting, the University of Chicago Police Department, that permits a credible examination of the causal effect of police in both the short and long run.
Commentary

Oct 11, 2016

Pitfalls of Predictive Policing

The Chicago Police Department's predictive policing program didn't work. To achieve even a 5 percent drop in the city's homicide rate, enormous leaps in both prediction and intervention effectiveness are necessary.
Commentary

Sep 21, 2016

CPD's 'Heat List' and the Dilemma of Predictive Policing

Predictive policing — the use of computer models to identify areas or people at greater risk of being involved in a serious crime — is yielding results for police. How authorities plan to respond to the data is key.
Commentary

May 18, 2016

The Hidden Costs of Pension Plan Reform

While there are many policy options that may decrease pension liabilities for Chicago and cities and states in similar situations, some options being considered may also have serious consequences for the public sector workforce, now and in the future.
Report

May 2, 2016

Retirement Benefits and Teacher Retention: A Structural Modeling Approach

The authors develop and estimate a stochastic dynamic programming model to analyze the relationship between compensation, including retirement benefits, and retention over the career of Chicago public school teachers.
Research Brief

May 2, 2016

Not All Changes Are Equal: Assessing How Different Pension Policies Can Impact Teacher Retention

RAND researchers developed a dynamic retention model to estimate and analyze the relationship between different retirement benefit policies and retention over the career of Chicago public school teachers.
Journal Article

Apr 1, 2014

The Academic Impact of Enrollment in International Baccalaureate Diploma Programs: A Case Study of Chicago Public Schools

In schools accredited as IB World Schools by the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO), teachers use IB curriculum and pedagogy to teach a range of courses that are intended to prepare IB-enrolled students for college.
Journal Article

Sep 11, 2012

Consider the Evidence

One of the best ways to increase student learning is to simultaneously increase the time spent on learning and the quality of instruction.
News Release

Oct 21, 2010

Coordination Efforts Could Boost After-School Programming

Coordinating the work of the many different institutions involved in after-school activities -- including schools, nonprofits and municipal agencies like parks and libraries -- holds the promise of making programs better and more accessible to urban children and teens who need them.

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