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Will School Renovations Impact Students, Teachers, and Communities?

Baltimore will renovate or replace more than two dozen public school buildings. How could these changes affect students, school staff, school conditions, and the surrounding community?

May 23, 2018
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Managing Water Quality in the Face of Uncertainty

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with state and local partners, develops and implements water quality plans. But uncertainty about the impacts of climate change and other factors may make it harder to meet water quality goals. Robust Decision Making can help better manage this uncertainty.

Sep 9, 2015
Commentary

What Durban Can Teach Detroit: Getting Customers to Pay Their Water Bills

South Africa is proving that governments in poor cities can provide water and collect payment without turning off the water spigot. Detroit and Baltimore might consider exploring models like this that have been successfully tested in even more challenging settings.

Jul 29, 2015
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Six Districts Begin the Principal Pipeline Initiative

This first report describes the initial plans for initiative implementation in the six participating school districts and the first steps taken toward implementation in the first year after grant award in August 2011.

Jul 1, 2013
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Integrating Schools Is a Matter of Housing Policy

Inclusionary zoning and economic integration in suburban neighborhoods not only reduces concentration of poverty, it directly improves low-income children's academic achievement.

Oct 1, 2011
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An Experiment to Evaluate the Efficacy of Cognitive Tutor Geometry

This randomized, controlled field trial estimated the causal impact of a technology-based geometry curriculum on students' geometry achievement, as well as their attitudes toward mathematics and technology.

Jan 1, 2010
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Housing Policy Is School Policy: Economically Integrative Housing Promotes Academic Success in Montgomery County, MD.

This article reports on the economic factors that influenced academic achievement for elementary school students in public housing in Montgomery County, Maryland. It argues that economic integration in housing and school policy is vital to student success.

Jan 1, 2010
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Assessing Health and Health Care in Prince George's County

Assesses the health care needs of the residents of Prince George's County, Maryland, and the capacity of the county's health care system to meet those needs.

Feb 6, 2009
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Ambulatory Care Sensitive Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits in Baltimore City

Provides an in-depth analysis of ambulatory care sensitive inpatient hospitalizations and emergency department visits among Baltimore City residents.

Jan 22, 2009
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Reporting Quality of Nursing Home Care to Consumers: The Maryland Experience

Despite its potentially controversial nature and many methodological challenges, the system has been well received by both the public and the industry.

Mar 1, 2003
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Journal Article

Evaluating Quality of Care in the New Health Care Environment

Evaluates the quality of eye care assessment in the changing health care environment and describes the quality systems currently in use and under development at two major eye institutes (in Los Angeles and Baltimore).

Jan 1, 1995