Publications
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Support for Instructional Leadership
(2016)
This report presents findings from a Wallace Foundation–funded survey of RAND’s American School Leader Panel, a nationally representative sample of principals, regarding the quantity, content, and perceived quality of ...
A Blueprint for Improving the Promotion and Delivery of Adult Vaccination in the United States
(2012)
Vaccine-preventable disease continues to take a heavy toll on adults despite the widespread availability of effective vaccines. This report identifies where efforts to improve the delivery of adult vaccination have stalled ...
China’s Expanding Role in Global Mergers and Acquisitions Markets
(2011)
The authors evaluate the risks and benefits of increased Chinese foreign investment, aiming to improve understanding of its investment patterns and strategy. They consider how U.S. national security might be compromised ...
A Cyberworm that Knows No Boundaries
(2011)
It has become clear that Stuxnet-like worms pose a serious threat even to critical U.S. infrastructure and computer systems that are not connected to the Internet. However, defending against such attacks involves complex ...
Low fertility in Europe
(2011)
Recent statistics suggest that fertility in Europe shows signs of recovery after decades of year-on-year drops. This report updates a study on low fertility from 2004 and explores the extent, causes and consequences of the ...
Sustaining Key Skills in the UK Military Aircraft Industry
(2010)
The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence's Fixed Wing Sector Strategy Board commissioned RAND Europe to assist in the development of a strategy and sustainment plan for the military fixed wing sector. RAND focused on the ...
Exploring Patterns of Behaviour in Violent Jihadist Terrorists
(2011)
An examination of the groups/cells and their 38 core individuals involved in the six most serious violent Jihadist terrorist conspiracies and attacks in the UK between 2004 and 2007 to see if they exhibited any specific ...
Life after Lisbon
(2011)
The economic crisis of 2008 has undone much of the progress on improving employment and growth in Europe. The review concludes that policy makers should focus on enabling social policy that allows individuals to achieve ...
The Cloud
(2011)
This report discusses how policy-makers might address the challenges and risks in respect of the security, privacy and trust aspects of cloud computing that could undermine the attainment of broader economic and societal ...
Project Retrosight
(2011)
This work explores impacts of cardiovascular and stroke research funded 15-20 years ago and draws out aspects associated with high or low impact. It describes 29 case studies of grants from Australia, Canada and UK. Policy ...
Navigating the Road to Reintegration
(2015)
To help the U.S. Air Force gain greater insight into the well-being of its members who have sustained mental or physical injuries in combat or combat-related situations, this report gauges the current status of the Air ...
America's Security Deficit
(2015)
This report analyzes defense options available to the United States in responding to current and emerging threats to U.S. security and interests in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It focuses on ways that the United ...
Improving Care for Chronic Conditions
(2015)
The need for better management of chronic conditions is urgent. Many health plans have developed innovative approaches to improving care for their members with chronic conditions. This report documents the current range ...
Foundations of the Islamic State
(2016)
Drawing from 140 recently declassified documents, this report comprehensively examines the organization, territorial designs, management, personnel policies, and finances of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) and al-Qa‘ida ...
Current and Projected Characteristics and Unique Health Care Needs of the Patient Population Served by the Department of Veterans Affairs
(2015)
Veterans who rely on Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care are older and less healthy than veterans who do not, and the prevalence of health conditions in this population will increase. Not all eligible veterans ...
Look East, Cross Black Waters
(2015)
India’s core goals for Southeast Asia are in basic harmony with those of the United States, including regional stability, peaceful settlement of territorial disputes, and containment of radicalism Still, America should not ...
Resources and Capabilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Provide Timely and Accessible Care to Veterans
(2015)
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides timely and high-quality care to most of its patients, but there are inconsistencies in performance across VA facilities and barriers to effective use of VA resources and ...
Friends, Foes, and Future Directions
(2016)
Report evaluates strategies for dealing with U.S. partners and adversaries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East in a time of diminishing defense budgets and American public preference for a domestic focus. The three proposed ...
Authorities and Mechanisms for Purchased Care at the Department of Veterans Affairs
(2015)
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) furnishes purchased care services through an array of programs, each with different eligibility requirements and payment processes. A RAND study revealed inconsistencies in procedures, ...
Improving the Mongolian Labor Market and Enhancing Opportunities for Youth
(2015)
This report provides a special focus on the challenges youth face in employment and education in Mongolia, using a new survey developed by the Institute for Labour Studies and RAND. Understanding the constraints to youth ...
Final Report on the Hawaiʻi P–3 Evaluation
(2015)
In 2007 Hawaiʻi’s P–20 Partnerships for Education launched the P–3 initiative, which aimed to have every child reading at grade level by third grade. RAND’s five-year evaluation examined implementation of statewide and ...
Meditation for Depression
(2015)
RAND researchers conducted a systematic review that synthesized evidence from randomized controlled trials of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy—used adjunctively or as monotherapy—to assess its efficacy and safety in ...
Development of a K–12 Financial Education Curriculum Assessment Rubric
(2015)
To help school district leaders and teachers make informed decisions about the adoption and use of appropriate K–12 financial education curricula, RAND researchers document the current state of the literature and advance ...
Student Mental Health in California’s K-12 Schools
(2015)
Reports results of a survey of K–12 principals to take inventory of student mental health and wellness needs and the types of programs schools are most often implementing to help students in California’s public schools.
Acupuncture for Major Depressive Disorder
(2015)
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Nanomaterial Safety in the Workplace
(2015)
RAND researchers use literature reviews and stakeholder interviews to develop a preliminary logic model to help the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Nanotechnology Research Center assess its contributions ...
Results from the Teach For America 2015 National Principal Survey
(2015)
The results of the 2015 National Principal Survey show the context in which Teach For America (TFA) corps members work, how principals perceive corps members, and how principals perceive their interactions with TFA. These ...
Demystifying the Citizen Soldier
(2015)
This report analyzes the National Guard’s centrality to American national security, the idea that it prevents the United States from fighting controversial foreign wars, and its claim to embody the citizen soldier. It ...
Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning
(2015)
This report examines achievement in 62 schools pursuing a variety of personalized learning practices, and implementation details in 32 of the schools. It uses data from site visits, interviews, and surveys to create a broad ...
What Supports Do Teachers Need to Help Students Meet Common Core State Standards for Mathematics?
(2016)
U.S. mathematics teachers have been working to adjust their instruction in response to states’ adoption of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and similar standards. Drawing on web-based surveys of U.S. teachers, ...
Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning
(2015)
This report examines achievement in 62 schools pursuing a variety of personalized learning practices, and implementation details in 32 of the schools. It uses data from site visits, interviews, and surveys to create a broad ...
Evaluation of the Regional Choice Initiative
(2016)
This evaluation describes the Regional Choice Initiative (RCI), a large-scale initiative in 17 school districts in Pennsylvania. The RCI sought to expand school choice and offer more-rigorous courses for students in grades ...
Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly
(2016)
The U.S. Department of Defense is considering a change in policy to allow transgender military personnel to serve openly. A RAND study examined the health care needs of transgender personnel, the costs of gender ...
Development of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Survey of Health Attitudes
(2016)
This report describes the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s National Survey of Health Attitudes, part of the foundation’s Culture of Health strategy. The foundation undertook this survey to measure key constructs that could ...
China’s Evolving Approach to “Integrated Strategic Deterrence"
(2016)
Drawing on Chinese military writings, this report finds that China’s strategic-deterrence concepts are evolving in response to Beijing’s changing assessment of its external security environment and a growing emphasis on ...
Balancing Demand and Supply for Veterans' Health Care
(2016)
This summary presents results from RAND’s assessments of veteran demographics and health care needs, the health care capabilities of the Veteran’s Administration (VA), and authorities and mechanisms for purchasing care. ...
Improving Decisionmaking in a Turbulent World
(2016)
Every president needs a decisionmaking system that harnesses the full capabilities and accumulated wisdom of the U.S. government and the nation’s many stakeholders. This Perspective analyzes a range of management challenges ...