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Journal Article
The Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination and Patient Experiences with Health Care
Perceptions of discrimination based on race/ethnicity and Medicaid insurance are prevalent and are associated with substantially lower CAHPS reports and ratings of care. Practices must develop and implement strategies to reduce perceived discrimination among patients.
Sep 1, 2012
Report
National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes
Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.
Jan 4, 2012
Journal Article
Where You Come from or Where You Go? Distinguishing Between School Quality and the Effectiveness of Teacher Preparation Program Graduates
The authors consider the challenges and implications of controlling for school contextual bias when modeling teacher preparation program effects.
Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article
Reading Coach Quality: Findings from Florida Middle Schools
This article examines what constitutes, contributes to, and is associated with high-quality coaches and coaching. Authors find that coaches generally held many of the qualifications recommended by state and national experts and principals and teachers rated their coaches highly on many indicators of quality. However, several common concerns about recruiting, retaining, and supporting high-quality coaches emerged.
Jan 1, 2012
Journal Article
Comparative Effectiveness of Clozapine Among Medicaid Beneficiaries
Clozapine is more effective than other antipsychotics for treating schizophrenia across racial and ethnic groups.
Jan 1, 2012
Report
Mapping the Gaps: Ideas for Using GIS to Enhance Local Health Department Priority Setting and Program Planning
Using geographic information system (GIS) technology to enhance provision of services by local health departments by enabling them to visually compare where health services are needed with where they are provided.
Oct 19, 2011
Report
National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes
Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.
Aug 25, 2011
Journal Article
The Central Office in a Decentralized System
As the charter school movement has come to scale within the United States, it poses new questions about how to govern public education.
Dec 1, 2010
Journal Article
Association Between Physician Specialty and Uptake of New Medical Technologies: HPV Tests in Florida Medicaid
Uptake of new cervical cancer screening protocols can occur quickly among traditionally underserved groups and may be aided by early adoption by specialists.
Nov 1, 2010
Report
Local Law Enforcement's Counterterrorism Initiatives Have Evolved into All-Hazards Strategies
Law enforcement agencies in areas where terrorist threats are considered to be high have expanded their focus beyond traditional crime prevention and investigation to include counterterrorism and homeland security operations.
Oct 1, 2010
Journal Article
Linking Reading Coaches and Student Achievement: Evidence from Florida Middle Schools
Although reading coaches are increasingly prevalent in schools nationwide, empirical evidence for their effects on student achievement is scarce. This article helps to address this gap by conducting an evaluation of a statewide reading coach program in Florida middle schools.
Jan 1, 2010
Journal Article
How Instructional Coaches Support Data-Driven Decision Making: Policy Implementation and Effects in Florida Middle Schools
This article examines the convergence of two popular school improvement policies: instructional coaching and data-driven decision making (DDDM). Drawing on a mixed methods study of a statewide reading coach program in Florida middle schools, the article examines how coaches support DDDM and how this support relates to student and teacher outcomes.
Jan 1, 2010
Research Brief
Florida's Middle School Reading Coaches: What Do They Do? Are They Effective?
This research brief reports the results of a study examining the implementation and effectiveness of a middle school reading coach program in Florida.
Aug 15, 2008
Report
Supporting Literacy Across the Sunshine State: A Study of Florida Middle School Reading Coaches
Presents results from a RAND evaluation of the implementation and impact of the reading coach program in Florida middle schools.
Aug 14, 2008
News Release
RAND Study Finds Most Schools Fail to Fully Adopt Reform Models Designed to Boost Student Achievement
November 9, 2006 News Release: RAND Study Finds Most Schools Fail to Fully Adopt Reform Models Designed to Boost Student Achievement.
Nov 9, 2006
Report
Evaluation of Community Voices Miami: Affecting Health Policy for the Uninsured
An evaluation of a project to improve access to health care for the uninsured and underserved in Miami-Dade County, Florida.
Oct 13, 2004
Commentary
Storms Blow, But We Can Cut Losses
Published commentary by RAND staff.
Sep 16, 2004
Commentary
Sales Tax on Services? Not So Fast
As Florida experience shows, targets of new levy on services have clout and will use it, writes Robert Levine in an commentary.
Jan 30, 2003
Report
Organization and Financing of Indigent Hospital Care in South Florida
Care for the uninsured is a county responsibility in Florida.
Jan 1, 2003
Report
Hospital Care for the Uninsured in Miami-Dade County: Hospital Finance and Patient Travel Patterns
Examines the extent to which uncompensated care is provided by hospitals other than JMH, and whether the greater access to surtax-funded care at JMH might cause patients to pass up facilities much nearer to their homes and travel long distances for care.
Jan 1, 2002

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