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Journal Article

School Choice, Student Mobility, and School Quality: Evidence from Post-Katrina New Orleans

This paper analyzes student mobility in post-Katrina New Orleans between and within the various sectors and school types using a multinomial framework.

Nov 24, 2015
Report

Competency-Based Programs Are an Innovative Approach to Higher Education

Among other benefits, competency-based education programs have the potential to increase the alignment between graduate skills and employer needs, as well as address degree-completion rates by offering new pathways to students.

Oct 22, 2015
Report

Improving Hospital Efficiency Through Data-Driven Management: A Case Study of Health First, Florida

This report presents a case study of how one health system addressed resource challenges by using Lean thinking (focusing on process improvement, affecting both structural components and operational processes) enabled by information technology.

Oct 22, 2015
Journal Article

Current and Future Flood Risk in Greater New Orleans

This report presents estimates of flood risk in New Orleans and quantifies the accomplishments of the post-Katrina efforts to improve coastal defenses.

Oct 20, 2015
Commentary

The Prospective Impact of Airbus Industries on Mobile

Austal USA's operations in Mobile, Alabama have benefited the broader region. Similarly, Airbus's hiring should have a net favorable impact on the region's economy, since the area does not appear to be at or near full employment.

Oct 10, 2015
Commentary

Exploring New Approaches to Higher Education: The Expansion of Competency-Based Programs

Policymakers and educators must determine if the risks of maintaining the status quo outweigh the potential benefits of competency-based programs, especially for those students who are ill-served by the traditional higher education model.

Sep 29, 2015
Dissertation

Hello, Goodbye: Three Perspectives on Public School District Staff Turnover

Three essays each of which explores a different perspective on public school district staff turnover.

Sep 14, 2015
Commentary

What Hurricane Katrina Taught Us About Community Resilience

Hurricane Katrina left a path of destruction, death, and suffering in its wake. Its recovery, halting and incomplete as it has been, has taught us valuable lessons about resiliency.

Sep 8, 2015
Research Brief

Aligning Education and Training to Meet Energy Workforce Needs

Energy-sector employers in West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania report having difficulty filling semiskilled jobs. And the sector's technology is changing quickly. How can the region's leaders improve the workforce-development pipeline?

Aug 31, 2015
Report

Energy-Sector Workforce Development in West Virginia

The production of natural gas and gas liquids from shale in West Virginia has increased demand for workers. Ten action items can help the Community and Technical College System of West Virginia and other stakeholders support a well-aligned and coherent workforce-development pipeline.

Aug 31, 2015
Blog

Hurricane Katrina: 10 Years After the Storm

This weekend marks 10 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast. As the region struggled to cope and rebuild after the storm, RAND experts worked on solutions to the region's long-term challenges.

Aug 27, 2015
News Release

Program to Improve School Outcomes and Student Achievement Shows Early Signs of Success

A program intended to boost student achievement by providing teachers two years of professional development, including formal training sessions and meetings with a leadership coach, is showing early signs of success.

Aug 11, 2015
Report

Teacher Development Program Shows Early Signs of Success

A program that provides middle-career teachers with two years of professional development, including formal training sessions and meetings with a leadership coach, is showing promising results on student achievement. Also, program participants are mentoring other teachers.

Aug 11, 2015
Journal Article

Roles of Prices, Poverty, and Health in Medicare and Private Spending in Texas

Variation in private spending reflects the ability of the local population to pay for healthcare, whereas variation in Medicare is more driven by health status.

Jul 7, 2015
Report

The Impact of Adopting Time-of-Day Tolling: Case Study of 183A in Austin, Texas

This study evaluates the traffic and revenue impacts of moving from a fixed toll rate on the 183A Turnpike in Texas to a toll structure that varies by time of day.

Jun 18, 2015
Research Brief

Planning for Higher Education Programs: Effectively Using Data and Modeling to Understand Workforce Needs

Workforce data sources provide valuable information, though no source should be used on its own. The information should be used to manage new and ongoing degree programs and for periodic strategic planning.

Apr 23, 2015
Journal Article

A Spatiotemporal Quantile Regression Model for Emergency Department Expenditures

The authors develop a spatiotemporal quantile regression model for the analysis of emergency department-related medical expenditures.

Mar 24, 2015
Journal Article

Where You Live Matters: Quality and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Schizophrenia Care in Four State Medicaid Programs

Care for Schizophrenia: it matters where you live.

Mar 19, 2015
Journal Article

Use of Pooled State Administrative Data for Mental Health Services Research

State mental health authorities routinely devote resources to collect data for state planning and reporting purposes. However, these data are rarely used in cross-state comparisons to inform state or federal policy development.

Feb 26, 2015
Announcement

New Research Consortium to Tackle Community Resilience in the Gulf Region

A new research group, the Consortium for Resilient Gulf Communities, will assess and address the public health, social, and economic impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico region. It will focus on determining how communities can build resilience to future disasters.

Feb 17, 2015

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