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Journal Article

Regionalization in Local Public Health Systems: Public Health Preparedness in the Washington Metropolitan Area

Most public health preparedness planning and response activities in the D.C. area are the result of voluntary self-organization through both governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Including all government agencies in planning is a challenge.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

PTSD in Latino Patients: Illness Beliefs, Treatment Preferences, and Implications for Care

Latino patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often report feeling sad, anxious, nervous, or fearful. Most expressed their desire to receive mental health treatment and preferred psychotherapy over psychotropic medications.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

Are High-Quality Cardiac Surgeons Less Likely to Operate on High-Risk Patients Compared to Low-Quality Surgeons? Evidence from New York State

Finds that high-risk coronary artery bypass graft patients are significantly more likely to receive care from high-quality surgeons compared with lower-risk patients.

Jan 1, 2008
Report

Value-Added Assessment in Practice

To encourage and facilitate data-driven decisionmaking, many states and districts have begun providing staff with information from value-added assessment systems—collections of complex statistical techniques that use multiple years of test-score data to estimate the causal effects of individual schools or teachers on student learning.

Oct 14, 2007
News Release

RAND Presents Research Award to Economists from Carnegie Mellon University

The RAND Corporation has presented the first Victor R. Fuchs Research Award to a team from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for publishing the best research paper with the potential to spawn new research in an underdeveloped area of health economics or health policy.

Jul 26, 2007
Commentary

The Limits of Average Test Scores

State test scores provide one useful piece of information to parents, school and governmental officials, and other taxpayers... But while this type of reporting provides one way of judging school quality, other information is needed to understand how well schools are actually educating their students, writes Laura Hamilton.

May 11, 2007
News Release

RAND Receives $6 Million Grant to Evaluate Math Curriculum of Carnegie Learning

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded the RAND Corporation a $6 million grant to conduct a five-year study of the effectiveness of a technology-based mathematics curriculum created by Carnegie Learning, Inc., of Pittsburgh.

Apr 5, 2007
Commentary

Think It Through on Tests

While testing can serve a valuable purpose, it can only do so if: the tests are designed to measure complex, important content; safeguards are developed to address harmful effects on students; and the tests are used as one part of a comprehensive strategy for producing more-qualified graduates, writes Laura Hamilton.

Mar 27, 2007
News Release

Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly Announces That the RAND Corporation Will Conduct an Assessment of How the New York ...

February 28, 2007 news release: Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly Announces That the RAND Corporation Will Conduct an Assessment of How the New York City Police Department Conducts Pedestrian Stops.

Feb 28, 2007
Report

Greater Collaboration and Centralization of Functions Needed to Support Arts

The arts sector in Philadelphia and other big cities would benefit greatly from a strong local agency to coordinate cultural activities and help make arts an integral part of each community.

Feb 26, 2007
Report

Mental Health Courts Have the Potential to Save Taxpayers Money

Special courts that sentence people with mental illness who are convicted of misdemeanors and low-level felonies to treatment instead of jail have the potential to save taxpayers money.

Feb 22, 2007
News Release

Pitt Professor Named Director of the Center for Health and Safety in Workplace at the RAND Corporation

February 12, 2007 news release: Pitt Professor Named Director of the Center for Health and Safety in Workplace at the RAND Corporation

Feb 12, 2007
Commentary

Straight Talk About a Report on Achievement at City Schools

Published commentary by RAND staff: Straight Talk About a Report on Achievement at City Schools, in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Feb 11, 2007
News Release

Study Finds Academic Gains Not Superior Among Philadelphia Students Enrolled in Privately Run Public Schools

February 1, 2007 news release: Study Finds Academic Gains Not Superior Among Philadelphia Students Enrolled in Privately Run Public Schools

Feb 1, 2007
Report

Academic Gains Not Superior for Students at Privately Run Public Schools

Academic improvement among students attending Philadelphia public schools managed by private operators kept pace, but did not exceed, the achievement gains of students in the rest of the district in the past four years.

Jan 22, 2007
Journal Article

Improved Health Care Among Children with Special Health Care Needs After Enrollment Into the State Children's Health Insurance Program

Enrollment onto New York's SCHIP improved medical care for CSHCN.

Jan 15, 2007
News Release

RAND Corporation Will Assess NYPD Firearms Training and Tactics and Firearms Discharge Review Procedures, and Examine ...

January 4, 2007 News Release: RAND Corporation Will Assess NYPD Firearms Training and Tactics and Firearms Discharge Review Procedures, and Examine Reflexive or 'Contagious' Shooting Issues.

Jan 4, 2007
Journal Article

Impact of the State Children's Health Insurance Program on Adolescents in New York

Adolescents face financial and nonfinancial barriers to health care.

Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article

Racial Differences in the Use of Epidural Analgesia for Labor

There is strong evidence that pain is undertreated in black and Hispanic patients.

Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article

Predictors of Timely Follow-Up Care Among Medicaid-Enrolled Adults After Psychiatric Hospitalization

Patient sociodemographic, clinical, and service utilization characteristics predicted timely follow-up care.

Jan 1, 2007

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