Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Ron Zimmer, Tim R. Sass

Technical Report

Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools: A Summary

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Ron Zimmer, Tim R. Sass

Research Brief

Assessing Child Care Quality: How Well Does Colorado's Qualistar Quality Rating Improvement System Work?

Gail L. Zellman, Michal Perlman, Vi-Nhuan Le, Claude Messan Setodji

Research Brief

Assessing the Validity of the Qualistar Early Learning Quality Rating and Improvement System as a Tool for Improving Child-Care Quality

Gail L. Zellman, Michal Perlman, Vi-Nhuan Le, Claude Messan Setodji

Monograph

Availability of Drinking Water in California Public Schools

Mark A. Schuster

Testimony

Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost?

Megan K. Beckett

Occasional Paper

The Economics of Early Childhood Policy: What the Dismal Science Has to Say About Investing in Children

M. Rebecca Kilburn, Lynn A. Karoly

Occasional Paper

Essays on Environmental Determinants of Health Behaviors and Outcomes

Khoa Dang Truong

Dissertation

Evaluating the Spirituality for Kids After-School Program

Nicole Maestas, Sarah Gaillot

Research Brief

Extending the Reach of Arts Education

Susan J. Bodilly, Catherine H. Augustine, Laura Zakaras

Research Brief

Implementation of new curriculum arrangements for 14-19 year olds: International comparisons

Cathleen Stasz, Jack Clift, Jennifer Rubin

Technical Report

An Outcome Evaluation of the Spirituality for Kids Program

Nicole Maestas, Sarah Gaillot

Technical Report

Prepared to Learn: The Nature and Quality of Early Care and Education for Preschool-Age Children in California

Lynn A. Karoly, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Gail L. Zellman, Michal Perlman, Lynda Fernyhough

Technical Report

Quality of Children's Health Care: Online Video of a Promising Practices Network Policy Luncheon

Elizabeth A. McGlynn

Conference Proceeding

RAND Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2008

Michael Hallsworth, Evi Hatziandreu, David G. Groves, William H. Overholt, Diana Epstein, John D. Graham, James A. Thomson, John Godges

Corporate Publication

Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination

Susan J. Bodilly, Catherine H. Augustine, Laura Zakaras

Monograph

Room for Improvement in the Use of High-Quality Preschool Programs for California's Children

Lynn A. Karoly, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Gail L. Zellman, Michal Perlman, Lynda Fernyhough

Research Brief

Sanctions in the CalWORKs Program

Jacob Alex Klerman, Jane McClure Burstain

Technical Report

State and Local Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act: Volume IV -- School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services: Interim Report

Brian Gill, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Scott Naftel, Karen E. Ross, Mengli Song, Jennifer Harmon, Georges Vernez, Beatrice Birman, Michael Garet, Jennifer O'Day

Reprint

Teens Who Work Are More Likely to Smoke

Rajeev Ramchand, Nicholas S. Ialongo, Howard D. Chilcoat

Research Brief

Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services Under No Child Left Behind: Progress Toward Implementation

Brian Gill, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Scott Naftel, Karen E. Ross, Mengli Song, Jennifer Harmon, Georges Vernez, Beatrice Birman, Michael Garet, Jennifer O'Day

Research Brief

What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy?

M. Rebecca Kilburn, Lynn A. Karoly

Research Brief

Accountability Under No Child Left Behind: Progress Toward Implementation

Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Jose Felipe Martinez, Jennifer O'Day, Brian M. Stecher, James Taylor, Andrea Cook, Georges Vernez, Beatrice Birman, Michael Garet

Research Brief

Acculturation and Parent-Adolescent Communication about Sex in Filipino-American Families: A Community-Based Participatory Research Study

Paul J. Chung, Raphael Travis, Shelley D. Kilpatrick, Marc N. Elliott, Camillia Lui, Shefali B. Khandwala, Theresa M. Dancel, Lori Vollandt, Mark A. Schuster

Library Reprint

Active Parental Consent for a School-Based Community Violence Screening: Comparing Distribution Methods

Bradley D. Stein, Lisa H. Jaycox, Audra Langley, Sheryl H. Kataoka, Windy Wilkins, Marleen Wong

Library Reprint

Adolescent Participation in Preventive Health Behaviors, Physical Activity, and Nutrition: Differences Across Immigrant Generations for Asians and Latinos Compared With Whites

Michele L. Allen, Marc N. Elliott, Leo S. Morales, Allison Diamant, Katrin Hambarsoomians, Mark A. Schuster

Library Reprint

Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages: A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs

Benjamin R. Karney, Megan K. Beckett, Rebecca L. Collins, Rebecca Shaw

Technical Report

Availability of High School Extracurricular Sports Programs and High-Risk Behaviors

Deborah Cohen, Stephanie L. Taylor, Michela Zonta, Katherine D. Vestal

Library Reprint

Body Image and Children's Mental Health Related Behaviors: Results from the Healthy Passages Study

M. Janice Gilliland, Michael Windle, Jo Anne Grunbaum, Antronette Yancey, Deanna Hoelscher, Susan R. Tortolero, Mark A. Schuster

Library Reprint

The Break the Cycle Evaluation Project

Lisa H. Jaycox, Jessica Aronoff, G. A. Shelley

Reprint

Breaking Ground: Analysis of the Assessment System and Impact of Mexico's Teacher Incentive Program "Carrera Magisterial"

Lucrecia Santibanez, Jose Felipe Martinez, Ashlesha Datar, Patrick J. McEwan, Claude Messan Setodji, Ricardo Basurto-Davila

Technical Report

"But Others Do It!" Do Misperceptions of Schoolmate Alcohol and Marijuana Use Predict Subsequent Drug Use among Young Adolescents?

Jaana Juvonen, Steven Martino, Phyllis L. Ellickson, Doug L. Longshore

Library Reprint

Comparing Perceived and Objectively Measured Access to Recreational Facilities as Predictors of Physical Activity in Adolescent Girls

Molly M. Scott, Kelly R. Evenson, Deborah Cohen, Christine E. Cox

Library Reprint

Do Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services Affect Student Achievement?

Ron Zimmer, Brian Gill, Paula Razquin, Kevin Booker, J. R. Lockwood, Georges Vernez, Beatrice Birman, Michael Garet, Jennifer O'Day

Research Brief

Does the Economy Affect Teenage Substance Use?

Jeremy Arkes

Library Reprint

Early Adolescent Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Its Relationship to Underage Drinking

Rebecca L. Collins, Phyllis L. Ellickson, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Katrin Hambarsoomians

Library Reprint

Early Care and Education in the Golden State: Publicly Funded Programs Serving California's Preschool-Age Children

Lynn A. Karoly, Elaine Reardon, Michelle Cho

Technical Report

Effective State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Policy Forum Video

Promising Practices Network

Conference Proceeding

Effects of Interpregnancy Interval and Outcome of the Preceding Pregnancy on Pregnancy Outcomes in Matlab, Bangladesh

Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Abdur Razzaque, Mizanur Rahman

Library Reprint

Estimating the Global Health Impact of Improved Diagnostic Tools for the Developing World

Deborah C. Hay Burgess, Jeffrey Wasserman, Carol A. Dahl, Federico Girosi, Stuart S. Olmsted, Emmett B. Keeler, Yee-Wei Lim, Julia E. Aledort, Maria E. Rafael, Karen A. Ricci, Rob Boer, Lee H. Hilborne, Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Molly Shea, Christopher Beighley, Mark Steinhoff, Douglas Holtzman, Harry Campbell, Robert Black, Kim Mulholland, Allen Ronald, Sylive M. Le Blancq, Renee Ridzon, Alan Landay, Jeff Safrit, Rosanna W. Peeling, Nicholas Hellmann, Peter Mwaba, King Holmes, Cathy Wilfert, Phillip I. Tarr, Carl Mason, Mark Miller, James Hughes, Lorenz von Seidlein, Jan M. Agosti, Richard L. Guerrant, Terrie Taylor, Alan Magill, Richard Allan, Mark D. Perkins, Peter Small, Christy Hanson, Steven Reed, Jane Cunningham, Christopher Dye, Peter Vickerman, Mickey Urdea, Laura A. Penny, Maria Y. Giovanni, Peter Kaspar, Andrew Shepherd, Penny Wilson, Steven Buchsbaum, Gerry Moeller

Research Brief

Evaluating Teacher Quality Under No Child Left Behind

Beatrice Birman, Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Amy Klekotka, Meredith Ludwig, James Taylor, Kirk Walters, Andrew Wayne, Kwang-Suk Yoon, Georges Vernez, Michael Garet, Jennifer O'Day

Research Brief

Getting To Outcomes™: 10 Steps for Achieving Results-Based Accountability

Shelley H. Wiseman, Matthew Chinman, Patricia A. Ebener, Sarah Hunter, Pamela Imm, Abraham Wandersman

Technical Report

Haciendo camino: Análisis del sistema de evaluación y del impacto del programa de estímulos docentes Carrera Magisterial en México

Lucrecia Santibanez, Jose Felipe Martinez, Ashlesha Datar, Patrick J. McEwan, Claude Messan Setodji, Ricardo Basurto-Davila

Monograph

Health System Reconstruction and Nation-Building

Seth G. Jones, Lee H. Hilborne, C. Ross Anthony, Lois M. Davis, Federico Girosi, Cheryl Benard, Rachel M. Swanger, Anita Datar Garten, Anga R. Timilsina

Research Brief

How Educators in Three States Are Responding to Standards-Based Accountability Under No Child Left Behind

Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher, Julie A. Marsh, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Abby Robyn, Jennifer Russell, Scott Naftel, Heather Barney

Research Brief

How Neighborhoods Can Reduce the Risk of Obesity

Deborah Cohen, Amber Sehgal, Stephanie Williamson, Roland Sturm, Thomas L. McKenzie, Rosa Lara, Nicole Lurie, Rob Boer, Yuhui Zheng, Adrian Overton, Greg Ridgeway, Brian Karl Finch, Aimee Bower, Narayan Sastry, J. Scott Ashwood, Molly M. Scott, Kelly R. Evenson, Lisa K. Staten, Dwayne Porter, Diane Catellier, Daniela Golinelli, John Elder

Research Brief

How Schools Responded to Student Mental Health Needs Following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Lisa H. Jaycox, Terri Tanielian, Priya Sharma, Lindsey K. Morse, Gretchen Clum, Bradley D. Stein

Research Brief

Human Trafficking in Ohio: Markets, Responses, and Considerations

Jeremy M. Wilson, Erin Dalton

Monograph

Impact of Full Mental Health and Substance Abuse Parity for Children in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program

Susan T. Azrin, Haiden A. Huskamp, Vanessa Azzone, Howard H. Goldman, Richard G. Frank, M. Audrey Burnam, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, M. Susan Ridgely, Alexander Young, Colleen L. Barry, Alisa B. Busch, Garrett Moran

Library Reprint

Latino Teens Talk About Help Seeking and Help Giving in Relation to Dating Violence

Beverly A. Weidmer, G. A. Shelley, Lisa H. Jaycox

Reprint