Elizabeth D Steiner

To update its teaching and departmental review processes, Phillips Academy Andover, an independent boarding school in Massachusetts, commissioned RAND researchers to review the school's policies, conduct a literature review, interview other independent high schools, develop potential recommendations for revision of Andover's processes, and revise those recommendations after vetting them with Andover's faculty. This report summarizes their work.

Over the past decade, more than 10 billion dollars has been invested in Pittsburgh tech companies, with more than 3.5 billion invested in 2021 alone. With the context of such strong sectoral growth in mind, RAND researchers set out to characterize the science- and technology-focused (STF) workforce ecosystem in the Pittsburgh region and suggest policy changes and investment opportunities to help propel the region's STF sectors in the future.

RAND began conducting a five-year evaluation of the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Opportunity by Design (ObD) high school redesign initiative in June 2014. This interim report, which focuses on implementation, provides detailed examples of the ObD school models and rich descriptions of implementation facilitators and challenges. It also examines areas of similarities and differences across the ObD schools and districts after two years.

To improve the U.S. education system through more-effective classroom teaching, in school year 2009 2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced its Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching. Researchers from the RAND Corporation and the American Institutes for Research evaluated implementation of key reform elements of the program in three public school districts and four charter management organizations."