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Journal Article

Promoting Mental Health Recovery After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: What Can Be Done at What Cost

Concerns about mental health recovery persist after the 2005 Gulf storms. The authors propose a recovery model and estimate costs and outcomes.

Jan 1, 2009
Journal Article

Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) Program: Year One Evaluation Report

This report presents findings from the first-year evaluation of the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program, one of several statewide performance incentive programs in Texas.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) Program: Year Two Evaluation Report

This report presents findings from the second year of a multi-year evaluation of the TEEG program and preliminary findings about the design and implementation of the DATE program.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

School Attendance and District and School Size

In this paper, the authors focus explicitly on both district size and school size and look at a particular aspect of educational output.

Jan 1, 2008
Journal Article

Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) Program: Year One Evaluation Report

This report presents findings stemming from the first-year evaluation of the Governor's Educator Excellence Grant (GEEG) program, one of several statewide performance incentive programs in Texas.

Aug 1, 2007
Journal Article

Spring 2007 TEEG Survey Results Chi-Square Analyses by Grade Level

This report presents findings from the first-year evaluation of the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program, one of several statewide performance incentive programs in Texas.

Jan 1, 2007
Journal Article

Managing the Risk of Uncertain Threshold Responses: Comparison of Robust, Optimum, and Precautionary Approaches

This study uses a simple computer simulation model to compare several alternative frameworks for decision making under uncertainty—optimal expected utility, the precautionary principle, and three different approaches to robust decision making—for addressing the challenge of adding pollution to a lake without triggering unwanted and potentially irreversible eutrophication.

Jan 1, 2007
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
Testimony

A Quiet Crisis in Transportation Finance: Options for Texas

Testimony presented before the Texas Study Commission on Transportation Finance on April 19, 2006.

Apr 17, 2006
Report

Focusing on High Risk Parolees: An Experiment to Reduce Commitments to the Texas Department of Corrections

Focusing on High Risk Parolees: An Experiment to Reduce Commitments to the Texas Department of Corrections

Jan 1, 2004
Report

Supply and Demand of Minority Teachers in Texas: Problems and Prospects

Supply and Demand of Minority Teachers in Texas: Problems and Prospects

Jan 1, 2003
Report

What Do Test Scores in Texas Tell Us?

This paper examines student on Texas' high-stakes tests, in which students have made extraordinary gains, and compares them to the results of nationwide tests.

Jan 1, 2000
Report

Staffing At-Risk School Districts in Texas: Problems and Prospects

Who will staff high-risk and high-minority districts? The answer revolves around whether we will have enough minority teachers. This report aims to fill part of this information gap by examining demand and supply of minority teachers in Texas.

Jan 1, 1999
Report

The Effects of a No-pay/No-play Plan on the Costs of Auto Insurance in Texas

The Effects of a No-pay/No-play Plan on the Costs of Auto Insurance in Texas

Jan 1, 1998
Report

San Antonio Real Property Maintenance Area: Overview of a Regional Consolidation of Base Support Services

This Note reports on a survey of operating experience in the San Antonio Real Property Agency (SARPMA) — an organization formed to consolidate buildings and grounds maintenance functions for four Air Force bases, ...

Jan 1, 1983
Report

The University of Texas Dental Branch Clinical Encounter System.

Describes the independent-access Clinical Encounter Simulator used at the innovative University of Texas Dental Branch in Houston. Based upon a unique three-dimensional intraoral camera and still-picture storage on video disc, it gives individualize...

Jan 1, 1975
Report

Case Studies in Educational Performance Contracting: Texarkana, Arkansas; Liberty-Eylau, Texas

Describes the first two years of the pioneering Texarkana performance contracting programs, under a five-year ESEA Title VIII program to cut dropouts and improve achievement among the many disadvantaged blacks and whites in the newly integrated school systems.

Jan 1, 1971
Report

The University of Texas Dental Branch Independent-Access Television System.

A description of a very advanced electronic instructional system which is at the time of writing in the late stages of construction. Designed for dental laboratory courses, the system will include 100 student stations, each with three-dimensional vi...

Jan 1, 1970
People

Carlos Villegas

Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Education M.P.P. in public policy, University of Houston; M.A. in applied economics, University of Houston; B.A. in economics, political science, University of Houston

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