Author: Gail L. Zellman
Publisher: RAND Corporation
Keywords: quality, tool, improving, child, care, system, rating, validity, qualistar, learning, assessing, improvement
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-06-25
ISBN-10: 0833044958
ISBN-13: 9780833044952

As a result of the generally low quality of child care in the United States, quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) are proliferating in the child-care arena. This study examines the QRIS developed by Qualistar Early Learning, a nonprofit organization based in Colorado, evaluating how reliable the system1s components are, whether the QRIS process helped providers to improve, and whether and how much children benefit from such improvement.

Author: Chaitra M. Hardison Anna-Marie Vilamovska
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: performance, college, university, standards, setting, learning, assessment, collegiate
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2009
ISBN-10: 0833047477
ISBN-13: 9780833047472

The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a measure of how much students’ critical thinking improves after attending college or university. This report illustrates how institutions can set their own standards on the CLA using a method that is appropriate for the CLA’s unique characteristics. The authors examined evidence of reliability and procedural validity of a standard-setting methodology that they developed and applied to the CLA. For this task, they assembled nine panels composed of faculty members from participating CLA institutions across the United States. The results of

Authors:Joy S. Moini, Gail L. Zellman, Susan M. Gates
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: defining, formula, need, informing, policy, demand, role, child, care, military, families, providing
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2006
ISBN-10: 083303927X
ISBN-13: 9780833039279

The Department of Defense (DoD) recognizes that high-quality child care for military families impacts both readiness and retention. DoD was concerned, however, that the child-care demand formula it uses may not be addressing all relevant aspects of child-care need. As such, the Office of the Secretary of Defense asked the RAND Corporation to assess the DoD formula as a tool for translating information on military families into measures of potential child-care need and to suggest ways that the tool might be improved. To perform this assessment, RAND conducted 21 focus groups on eight installati

Author: Paul Romeij
Publisher: Treemail
Keywords: forestry, plantation, truth, variations, gold
Number of Pages: 221
Published: 1999-01-01
ISBN-10: 9080444324
ISBN-13: 9789080444324

Green Gold explores the Internet as a tool to extract accountability from Trans Nationally operating Corporations. It exposes the collapsed Teakwood investment program of the Delta Lloyd-OHRA Insurance and Banking group and the world’s largest environmental organization, WWF. Peer reviewed. "Compulsory" -- Prof. Dr. J.C. Centeno "Possibly brilliant" -- Prof. Dr. J. van Acker "Extremely thorough and authoritative" -- Prof. Dr. A. Heertje Review This book methodically recounts the technical, legal, political and ethical aspects of a teak plantation established in Costa Rica by the

Author: Irwin Schiff
Publisher: Freedom Book
Keywords: tax, illegally, enforced, paying, immediately, hoax, income, stop
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 1985-03-01
ISBN-10: 0930374053
ISBN-13: 9780930374051

Laws are the whitewash that governments use to disguise the ugly fact that they steal money from productive people, then use it to control how they live their lives. Being merely one-sided contracts, laws have no moral validity whatsoever; but eight generations of government schooling have conned Americans into supposing that they are magic, to be held in respect and awe. Accordingly, if there is a tax law, most people tend to obey it. In this masterpiece, perhaps the most important book he ever wrote, Irwin Schiff shows that there is no such thing; how even that veneer of respectability fa