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Authors:Thomas K. Glennan, Jr., Susan J. Bodilly, Jolene
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: scale, educational, interventions, leaders, perspectives, education, reforms, expanding
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833036599
ISBN-13: 9780833036599
Over the last few decades, demands that schools serve all students better and be accountable for student performance have inspired many education reforms. Meanwhile, the focus has shifted from assisting individual teachers and schools to applying proven reforms more widely-scale-up. The authors of the essays in this volume have helped extend various reforms beyond the environments in which they first proved successful. The authors recount the challenges they faced and the lessons they learned. One major challenge has been building the capacity in schools, districts, and states both to implemen
Author: Peter Chalk
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: rand, dynamic, counterinsurgency, study, paper, evolving, conflict, insurgency, muslim, southern, thailand, understanding, malay
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0833044680
ISBN-13: 9780833044686
Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand has captured growing national, regional, and international attention due to the heightened tempo and scale of rebel attacks, the increasingly jihadist undertone that has come to characterize insurgent actions, and the central government’s often brutal handling of the situation on the ground. Of particular note are growing concerns that the conflict is no longer purely local in nature but has been systematically hijacked by outside extremists to avail wider transnational Islamist designs in southeast Asia. No concrete evide
Authors:Lynn E. Davis, J. Michael Polich, William M. Hix,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: sustained, operations, forces, army, thin, stretched
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2005
ISBN-10: 0833038168
ISBN-13: 9780833038166
The United States faces very difficult trade-offs in responding to the demanding calls now being made on Army forces for overseas operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This report describes the effects of large-scale deployments on the Army
Authors:Richard N. Katz, Diana G. Oblinger,
Publisher: EDUCAUSE
Keywords: cloud, computing, education, higher, tower
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008
ISBN-10: 0967285399
ISBN-13: 9780967285399
The emergence of the networked information economy is unleashing two powerful forces. On one hand, easy access to high-speed networks is empowering individuals. People can now discover and consume information resources and services globally from their homes. Further, new social computing approaches are inviting people to share in the creation and edification of information on the Internet. Empowerment of the individual -- or consumerization -- is reducing the individual’s reliance on traditional brick-and-mortar institutions in favor of new and emerging virtual ones. Second, ubiquitous a
Authors:Mark Berends, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Scott Naftel,
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: three, years, scale, schools, american, performance, new, implementation
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2001
ISBN-10: 0833029029
ISBN-13: 9780833029027
This is a report aimed at those who want to better understand the burgeoning area of whole-school or comprehensive school reform. It describes trends in implementation, school performance, and related factors for the sample of NAS schools and is based on a three-year longitudinal study of these schools.
Authors:Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill, Kevin Booker, Stephane La
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: attainment, integration, competition, achievement, effects, schools, eight, states, charter
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833046934
ISBN-13: 9780833046932
The first U.S. charter school opened in 1992, and the scale of the charter movement has since grown to 4,000 schools and more than a million students in 40 states plus the District of Columbia. With this growth has also come a contentious debate about the effects of the schools on their own students and on students in nearby traditional public schools (TPSs). In recent years, research has begun to inform this debate, but many of the key outcomes have not been adequately examined, or have been examined in only a few states. Do the conflicting conclusions of different studies reflect real differ
