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American Working Conditions Survey
How do Americans perceive their workplace? RAND's American Working Conditions Survey shows workers find their jobs physically demanding, hazardous, and hectic—but also social and supportive, and many retirees would prefer to return to work.
STEM Education

The Appalachia Partnership Initiative
The Appalachia Partnership Initiative seeks to build sustainable STEM education and technical training programs in the Greater Pittsburgh area, ultimately helping to develop a skilled workforce ready for careers in energy and manufacturing.
Workforce Development

Coherent Instructional Systems
Coherence in messaging is key when it comes to giving all students opportunities to master standards and experience academic success. To support student success, schools, districts, and states can intentionally design coherent instructional systems. RAND researchers have been studying these systems.
STEM Education

Improving STEM Pathways in Louisiana Through Micro-credentials
The Louisiana STEM micro-credential project was created to develop and study a set of micro-credentials intended to help teachers apply their STEM training to the classes they teach. The RAND Corporation is conducting an independent, innovative, and mixed-method study as part of this project.
Teacher Effectiveness

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness
Research suggests that, among school-related factors, teachers matter most to students' academic performance. What's less clear is how to measure an individual teacher's effectiveness. RAND's reports, fact sheets, blog posts, and research briefs provide clarity on this important issue.
Academic Achievement

National Summer Learning Project
RAND's research on summer learning is commissioned by the Wallace Foundation as part of its More Time for Learning initiative. One objective of this initiative is to promote high-quality summer learning programs across the country for low-achieving students.
Racial Equity

Investigating the U.S. Racial Wealth Gap
The gap in wealth between Black and white Americans is a product of historical realities that continue to shape economic outcomes. Policy interventions to address current wealth disparities must understand the long-standing inequities that contributed to them.
Criminal Justice

Resetting the Record: The Facts on Hiring People With Criminal Histories
RAND researchers are building a portfolio of research that addresses a major challenge for policymakers, employers, and citizens: how to connect more people who have criminal convictions to job opportunities.
Social and Emotional Learning

Research on the Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative
RAND is conducting research on The Wallace Foundation’s Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative (PSELI), which explores whether and how students will benefit if adults in schools and out-of-school time (OST) programs work together to align and improve experiences and climate to foster social and emotional learning.
Education Policy

Studying Louisiana State Education Policies
Louisiana has launched one of the most ambitious efforts to improve public schooling in the nation. RAND researchers funded by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation closely studied Louisiana's education policies over the past several years through policy documentation, and interviews with state policymakers and educators.
Education Policy

The State of the American Teacher and the American Principal
To better understand the state of educator well-being, RAND has launched two projects to leverage nationally representative surveys of K–12 public school teachers and principals, to gather information on educators’ working conditions and job-related stressors.

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