Making Summer Count

Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Catherine H Augustine, Heather L Schwartz

• Paperback | Engels | Rand Corporation Monograph
• Research has shown that students¹ skills and knowledge often deteriorate during the summer months, with low-income students facing the largest losses.... Lees meer

Evaluating the Reliability of Emergency Response Systems for Large-Scale Incident Operations

Brian A Jackson, Kay Sullivan Faith, Henry H Willis

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• The ability to measure emergency preparedness is critical for policy analysis in homeland security. Yet it remains difficult to know how prepared a re... Lees meer

Highway Infrastructure and the Economy

Howard J Shatz

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• To inform debate on a new transportation bill being considered, the authors review the literature on the economic outcomes of highway infrastructure s... Lees meer

Ending Social Promotion Without Leaving Children Behind

Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Louis T Mariano

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• The New York City Department of Education asked RAND to conduct an independent longitudinal evaluation of its 5th-grade promotion policy. The findings... Lees meer

Pakistan

C Christine Fair

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• The authors exposit likely developments in Pakistan's internal and external security environment over the coming decade; assess Pakistan's national wi... Lees meer

Reserve Participation and Cost Under a New Approach to Reserve Compensation

Michael G Mattock, James Hosek, Beth J Asch

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• Presents officer and enlisted retention and cost effects by branch of service for variants of a new approach to reserve compensation proposed by the 1... Lees meer

Afghan Peace Talks

James Shinn, James Dobbins

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• The objective of a negotiated peace in Afghanistan has been firmly embraced by most of the potential parties to a treaty. However, arriving at an agre... Lees meer

What Should Be Classified?

Martin C Libicki, Brian A Jackson, David R Frelinger, Beth E Lachman, Cesse Ip

• Paperback | Engels | Rand Corporation Monograph
• The Global Force Management Data Initiative was launched to improve aggregation of unclassified force-structure data. Aggregation, though, raised conc... Lees meer

Alert and Ready

Christopher Paul

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• Over the past decade, especially, U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) intelligence has had to tailor its organization to meet the evolving demands of the operati... Lees meer

China's Expanding Role in Global Mergers and Acquisitions Markets

Charles Wolf, Brian G Chow, Gregory S Jones

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• The authors evaluate the risks and benefits of increased Chinese foreign investment, aiming to improve understanding of its investment patterns and st... Lees meer

Choosing a New Organization for Management and Disposition of Commercial and Defense High-Level Radioactive Materials

Lynn E Davis, Debra Knopman, Michael D Greenberg, Laurel E Miller, Abby Doll

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• Finding ways to safely store and ultimately dispose of nuclear waste remains a matter of considerable debate. This volume describes the steps needed t... Lees meer

Intratheater Airlift Functional Solution Analysis (Fsa)

David T Orletsky, Daniel M Norton, Anthony D Rosello, Brian G Chow, Yool Kim

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• This functional solution anaylsis assesses changes to current U.S. Air Force operations to determine whether a nonmaterial solution could close the ca... Lees meer

Striking First

Karl P Mueller

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• RAND Project AIR FORCE studied the post-9/11 shift in U.S. defense policy emphasis toward preemptive and preventive attack, asking under what conditio... Lees meer

Navy Network Dependability

Isaac R Porche

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• The Navy is increasingly dependent on networks and associated net-centric operations to conduct military missions, so a vital goal is to establish and... Lees meer

Global Combat Support

Ronald G McGarvey, Robert S Tripp, Rachel Rue, Thomas Lang, Jerry M Sollinger

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• The ability to rapidly deploy forces into austere locations is essential to the global power projection concept of operation. Materiel used by such ex... Lees meer

Risking NATO

Andrew R Hoehn, Sarah Harting

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• NATO's success in Afghanistan--or lack thereof--will have significant implications for the alliance itself. The authors examine current mission in lig... Lees meer

Air Force Materiel Command Reorganization Analysis

Robert S Tripp, Kristin F Lynch, Daniel M Romano, William Shelton, John A Ausink, Chelsea Kaihoi Duran, Robert G Defeo, David W George, Raymond E Conley, Bernard Fox, Jerry M Sollinger

• Paperback | Engels | Rand Corporation Monograph
• A congressionally mandated review of the proposed restructuring of Air Force Materiel Command examined the proposal and its effect on life-cycle manag... Lees meer

United States and Mexico

Emma Aguila, Alisher R Akhmedjonov, Ricardo Basurto-Davila, Krishna B Kumar, Howard J Shatz, Sarah Kups

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• This binational reference for U.S. and Mexican policymakers presents the interrelated issues of Mexican immigration to the United States and Mexico¹s ... Lees meer

Green Warriors

David E Mosher

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• This study assesses whether Army policy, doctrine, and guidance adequately address environmental activities in post-conflict phases of contingencies. ... Lees meer

Band of Brothers or Dysfunctional Family? a Military Perspective on Coalition Challenges During Stability Operations

Russell W Glenn

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• During stability operations, coalitions must incorporate participation by government agencies other than the military, the indigenous government, and ... Lees meer

Sexual Orientation and U.S. Military Personnel Policy

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• This report shares results of a study on sexual orientation and U.S. military policy, as requested by the Senate Armed Services Committee in order to ... Lees meer

Cost-Benefit Analysis of the 2006 Air Force Materiel Command Test and Evaluation Proposal

Michael R Thirtle, Michael Boito, Ian P Cook, Bernard Fox, Phyllis Gilmore

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• Late in 1996, the Air Force enlisted RAND's help to respond to inquiries from Congress about the effects of a specific Air Force proposal to consolida... Lees meer

Toward Affordable Systems III

Brian G Chow, Richard Silberglitt, Caroline Reilly, Scott Hiromoto, Christina Panis

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• Together this and two companion monographs demonstrate a method, model, and simulation that the U.S. Army can use to analyze and manage portfolios at ... Lees meer

Workers Compensation Reform & Return to

Seabury, Reville, Williamson, Mcl

• Paperback | Engels | Rand Corporation Monograph
• "Prepared for the California Commission on Health and Safety and Workers' Compensation." Lees meer