Foundation-Supported Research
Recent RAND Studies Sponsored by Foundations and Endowments
California's K-12 Public Schools: How Are They Doing?
Stephen J. Carroll , Cathy Krop, Jeremy Arkes, Peter A. Morrison, Ann Flanagan
Full Document (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)
Liquid Assets: How Demographic Changes and Water Management Policies Affect Freshwater Resources
Jill Boberg
Full Document (Compton Foundation)
The Role of Districts in Fostering Instructional Improvement: Lessons from Three Urban Districts Partnered with the Institute for Learning
Julie A. Marsh, Kerri A. Kerr, Gina S. Ikemoto, Hilary Darilek, Marika Suttorp, Ron W. Zimmer, Heather Barney
Full Document (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)
Russia and the Information Revolution
D. J. Peterson
Full Document (Carnegie Corporation)
Gifts of the Muse: Reframing the Debate about the Benefits of the Arts
Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje , Laura Zakaras, Arthur Brooks
Full Document (The Wallace Foundation)
Improving Maternal and Child Health Care: A Blueprint for Community Action in the Pittsburgh Region
Harold Alan Pincus, Stephen B. Thomas, Donna J. Keyser, Nicholas Castle, Jacob W. Dembosky, Ray Firth, Michael D. Greenberg, Nancy Pollock, Evelyn Reis, Veronica Sansing, Sarah Scholle
Full Document (Heinz Endowment)
Making Out-of-School-Time Matter: Evidence for an Action Agenda
Susan Bodilly, Megan K. Beckett
Full Document (The Wallace Foundation)
Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial-Ethnic Groups, 1972-1992
Mark Berends, Samuel R. Lucas, Thomas Sullivan, R. J. Briggs
Full Document (The Spencer Foundation)
Just Cause or Just Because? Prosecution and Plea-Bargaining Resulting in Prison Sentences on Low-Level Drug Charges in California and Arizona
K. Jack Riley, Nancy Rodriguez, Greg Ridgeway, Dionne Barnes-Proby, Terry Fain, Nell Griffith Forge, Vincent Webb <>
Full Document (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation)
A Portrait of the Visual Arts: Meeting the Challenges of a New Era
Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth H. Ondaatje, Arthur Brooks, Andras Szanto
Full Document (Pew Charitable Trusts)
The Challenges of Creating a Global Health Resource Tracking System
Elisa Eiseman, Donna Fossum
Full Document (Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation)
The Economics of Investing in Universal Preschool Education in California
Lynn A. Karoly, James H. Bigelow
Full Document Related Document (David and Lucille Packard Foundation)
County-Level Estimates of the Effects of a Universal Preschool Program in California
Lynn A. Karoly
Full Document (David and Lucille Packard Foundation)
A Research Agenda for Assessing the Impact of Fragmented Governance on Southwestern Pennsylvania
Sally Sleeper, Henry Willis, Stephen Rattien , Adrienn Lanczos
Full Document (Heinz Endowment)
Achieving State and National Literacy Goals, a Long Uphill Road: A Report to Carnegie Corporation of New York
Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Sheila Nataraj Kirby, Heather Barney, Hilary Darilek, Scarlett Magee
Full Document (Carnegie Corporation)
Measuring and Understanding Economic Interdependence in Allegheny County
Sally Sleeper, Henry Willis, Eric Landree, Beth Grill
Full Document (Heinz Endowment)
Going to Scale with High-Quality Early Education: Choices and Consequences in Universal Pre-Kindergarten Efforts
Rachel Christina, JoVictoria Nicholson-Goodman
Full Document (Heinz Endowment, David and Lucille Packard Foundation)
Evaluation of a Patient Safety Training Program
Christopher Nelson
Full Document (Jewish Healthcare Foundation)
Gender Differences in Major Federal External Grant Programs
Susan D. Hosek, Amy G. Cox, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Aaron Kofner, Nishal Ramphal, Jon Scott, Sandra H. Berry
Full Document (National Science Foundation)
U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue
Rollie Lal, Rajesh Rajagopalan
Full Document (Observer Research Foundation)
Engaging Russia as Partner and Participant: The Next Stage of NATO-Russia Relations
Robert E. Hunter , Sergey M. Rogov
Full Document (Carnegie Corporation)
Education in Mexico: Challenges and Opportunities
Lucrecia Santibanez, Georges Vernez, Paula Razquin
Full Document (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation)
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