Rand imprint: 375 books
by Lynn E. Davis, Arthur Melmed, Richard Krop
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2003
Individual preparedness is an important element of our nation's strategy for homeland security. This report adopts a scenario-driven approach that provides a rigorous way to identify actions-linked specifically to terrorist attacks-individuals can take to protect their health and safety. The result...
Look East, Cross Black Waters
India's Interest in Southeast Asia
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 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 expect India to enter any sort of alliance, nor join any coalition to balance...
Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico
Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help?
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
U.S. demand for illicit drugs creates markets for Mexican drug- trafficking organizations (DTOs) and helps foster violence in Mexico. This paper examines how marijuana legalization in California might influence DTO revenues and the violence in Mexico.
China’s Incomplete Military Transformation
Assessing the Weaknesses of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2015
Through extensive primary source analysis and independent analysis, this report seeks to answer a number of important questions regarding the state of China’s armed forces. The authors found that the PLA is keenly aware of its many weaknesses and is vigorously striving to correct them. Although...
Making Summer Count
How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Research has shown that students' skills and knowledge often deteriorate during the summer months, with low-income students facing the largest losses. School districts and summer programming providers can benefit from the lessons learned by other programs in terms of developing strategies to maximize...
by Susan Burkhauser, Ashley Pierson, Susan M. Gates
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Given the focus on accountability in education, stakeholders are interested in evaluating whether efforts aimed at improving school leadership show results; the key criteria are student outcomes. This report describes challenges that states, districts, and other entities can expect to encounter as they...
New Assessments, Better Instruction?
Designing Assessment Systems to Promote Instructional Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
This report reviews the literature on how assessment affects teaching practice and the conditions that moderate that relationship. The authors identify a wide variety of effects that testing might have on teachers' activities in the classroom and a number of conditions that affect the impact that assessment may have on practice.
The Role of Faith-Based Organizations in HIV Prevention and Care in Central America
(Spanish translation)
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Describes the involvement of churches and other faith-based organizations (FBOs) in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Belize, Guatemala, and Honduras. The authors describe the range of FBO activities and discuss the advantages and challenges to such involvement and possible ways that FBOs can enhance...
by Paul K. Davis, Eric V. Larson, Zachary Haldeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Using and testing a conceptual model that draws on social science and particularly social movement theory, this volume examines public support for al-Qa'ida's transnational jihadist movement, the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Turkey, and the Maoist insurgency...
by Angel Rabasa, Stacie L. Pettyjohn, Jeremy J. Ghez
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Measures to prevent vulnerable individuals from radicalizing and to rehabilitate those who have already embraced Islamist extremism have been implemented in several Middle Eastern, Southeast Asian, and European countries. This monograph describes and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of these...
Interpreting China's Grand Strategy
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2000
China's continuing rapid economic growth and expanding involvement in global affairs pose major implications for the power structure of the international system. To more accurately and fully assess the significance of China's emergence for the United States and the global community, it is necessary...
Data Flood
Helping the Navy Address the Rising Tide of Sensor Information
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Navy analysts are struggling to keep pace with the growing flood of data collected by intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance sensors. This challenge is sure to intensify as the Navy continues to field new and additional sensors. The authors explore options for solving the Navy’s “big data”...
Reducing Gun Violence
Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2003
To assess whether an initiative to reduce gun violence that had been successful in Boston could be adapted for use elsewhere, researchers selected an East Los Angeles area for a similar intervention that was to include both law enforcement and social service components. Although the latter component...
Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry in California
State-of-the-State Report
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
Examines the health care needs of newly released California prisoners; the communities most affected by reentry and the health care safety net of those communities; the critical roles that health care providers, other social services, and family members play in successful reentry; and the effects of...