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The Logic and Effects of Special Regulatory Treatment for Small Business
"There has been ongoing concern that some regulations, rules, and government policies place a disproportionate burden on small businesses and entrepre...
Strategy And Competition In U.S. Higher Education
"The heart of the book is an analysis showing how these strategies are carried out based on site-visit data from 26 highly diverse colleges and univer...
An Overview of School Administrators and Their Careers
There is concern that schools and districts will be unable to attract and retain enough qualified school administrators. The authors analyze data on s...
Strategy and Competition in U.S. Higher Education
The Department of Defense faces a challenge: how to replace a large number of retiring civilian workers and provide the larger civilian workforce like...
Options to Decrease Spending and Increase Value
New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical te...
Different Levels, Different Roles
In response to more than a decade of downsizing and restructuring, the Department of Defense (DoD) is engaged in a human-resources strategic planning ...
The Role of the Demand Formula in Defining Need and Informing Policy
The Office of the Secretary of Defense asked the RAND Corporation to assess the Department of Defense (DoD) child-care demand formula as a tool for tr...
The Department of Defense (DoD) supports the largest employer-sponsored system of high-quality child care in the country. Through accredited child dev...
Examines the factors influencing the cost-effectiveness of civilianization--in particular, the way in which workforce substitution occurs, and the eff...
An Analysis of Recent Trends
Provides a descriptive overview of the Department of the Navy's civilian acquisition workforce over the past decade and presents the results of prelim...
An Analysis of Personnel Trends Relevant to Policy, 1993-2006
The defense acquisition workforce includes more than 126,000 military and civilian personnel responsible for providing a wide range of acquisition, te...
Are Changes Needed to Reservists Employment Rights Legislation, Policies, Or Programs?
"Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), a U.S. Department of Defense office (DoD), asked the RAND Corporation to study the implications tha...
Costs and Other Resources
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A Review of Approaches and Lessons for DoD
The Office of the Chancellor for Education and Professional Development in the Department of Defense (DoD) was established in 1998 to help raise the q...
An Analysis of Assessment Practices, Volume 29, Number 1
A detailed review of the quality assurance and productivity oversight processes being applied today by agencies given the task of assessing and evalua...
In this report, researchers update and extend an earlier study to document the views of employers of reserve component (RC) members and reevaluate Dep...
Implementation and Effects of the New Leaders Program in Ten Districts
This report describes New Leaders, a nonprofit dedicated to preparing principals to lead schools to greater achievement, the implementation of its pro...
A Systemic Approach for Change and Sustainability Report in Brief
The job of the school principal has become much more complex and demanding over the past several decades. Many university-based principal preparation ...
The Department of Defense (DoD) has developed an impressive system for delivering quality child care to the children of DoD empl....
Estimating Future Assistive Technology Requirements for Department of Defense Civilian Employees and Service Members
The Department of Defense (DoD) requires both current and projected estimates of the size of its workforce population with specific categories of disa...
Partners Collaborate for Change. Executive summary
School principals are charged with complex responsibilities that can include developing a school vision and culture, supporting teacher effectiveness,...
A Way Ahead for Integrating Readiness Into Civilian Workforce Planning
The authors develop a definition of and model for measuring civilian workforce readiness to inform Army policies and practices using qualitative metho...
Lessons from Seven States Partnering with Principal Preparation Programs and Districts
The authors examine how seven states are using state-level policy levers to improve the quality of school principals....
How Leveraging System Interactions Can Help Curb Addiction, Overdose, and Other Harms
Patterns and consequences of opioid use are changing dramatically. Researchers provide a nuanced assessment of America's opioid ecosystem, highlightin...
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Potential Approaches and Available Data Sources
"This report provides a review of approaches used in the private sector and in government organizations for determining workforce supply and demand an...
Update to Methods and Results Through FY 2011
RAND has been providing ongoing analysis of the defense acquisition workforce; this volume documents the methods and data and provides a user's manual...
Are They Real? Will They Last?
In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has placed increasing faith in competitive sourcing to make its operations more efficient and effecti...
What Public School Districts Report Doing and What They Want to Do to Improve School Leadership
The authors share new findings about the presence and potential importance of principal pipeline activities for preparing, hiring, supporting, and eva...
Insights from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), created in 1991 through the consolidation of military service-specific accounting and finance opera...
The organic defense acquisition workforce consists of military personnel and Department of Defense civilian personnel who provide the management, tech...
A Summary of Findings For...
Evaluation of New Leaders' Aspiring Principals Program, 2012-2017
This report analyzes whether schools and students led by graduates of New Leaders' Aspiring Principals program outperformed comparison schools and stu...
Impacts on Civil Service Employees
Outsourcing of commercial activities in the Department of Defense (DoD) occurs within a well-defined legal & policy framework. This framework creates ...
This report uses administrative data from Defense Manpower Data Center files to address questions about factors that affect personnel retention and ca...
The recently passed No Child Left Behind legislation reflects the increasing visibility and importance of school administration in the larger educatio...
Partners Collaborate for Change
The University Principal Preparation Initiative (UPPI) supports the redesign of principal preparation programs according to evidence-based principles ...