Rand Corporation

Blacks Outpace Other Female Recruits In U.S. Military

The New York Times | JAMES DAO | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Rand Corporation, Beth J. Asch, Military Enlistment, US Marines, US Army, Military Recruiting, Defense Department, US Navy, US Air Force, Black Voices News

Black women are enlisting in the military at far higher rates than are white or Hispanic women, and they now represent nearly a third of all the women...

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More, Better Early Education Could Help Close California's Achievement Gap

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Los Angeles Schools, California Preschools, California, Castro Family Childcare, Achievement Gap, Hispanic Children, Hispanic Students, First-Generation Immigrant Students, Los Angeles Universal Preschool, Video, Early Education, Latino Achievement Gap, Rand Corporation, Preschool California, California Schools, White-Hispanic-Achievement-Gap, California Early Education, Latino Students, California Education, Education News

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...

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More, Better Early Education Could Help Close California's Achievement Gap

| Sarah Garland | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: California, California Preschools, Castro Family Childcare, Achievement Gap, Hispanic Children, Latino Students, First-Generation Immigrant Students, Los Angeles Universal Preschool, Video, Early Education, Latino Achievement Gap, Rand Corporation, Preschool California, California Schools, White-Hispanic-Achievement-Gap, California Early Education, Los Angeles Schools, California Education, Hispanic Students, Education News

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. This is the third of a three-part series. Read the first piece, English-Learning Students F...

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LA Crime Increased Where Pot Shops Closed? Not So Fast.

AP | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Crime and Marijuana Dispensaries, Rand Corporation, Los Angeles Marijuana Dispensaries, Pot Shops, Warren Robak, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES -- A nonprofit think tank has removed a study from its website that said crime increased near medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angele...

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On 10th Anniversary of Afghan War, Time to Exit Militarized US Foreign Policy

Michael Shank | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: National Peace Academy, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Pentagon, Cia, Leon Panetta, Somalia, Pakistan, David Petraeus, Counter-Terrorism, Yemen, Iraq, Afghan Local Police, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Rand Corporation, Afghanistan War, Michael Shank, Wartime Contracting Commission, Brown University, Secretary of Defense, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, Libya, Afghanistan, The Hague, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, Politics News
Michael Shank

October 7 marks the tenth anniversary of the US war in Afghanistan. After expending $4 trillion and thousands of lives, the US needs an exit from the depressing impasse of its militarized foreign policy.

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Muslims Are More Peaceful Than Their Neighbors

Abdul Malik Mujahid | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Rand Corporation, Muslim, Non-Muslims, Al Qaeda, Islam and Terrorism, Decade After 9/11 - Religion, Islam, Islam and Peace, Fbi Investigation of Muslims, Islamic View of Violence, Muslim American Views, Muslim Americans and Terrorism, Islam in America, Religion News
Abdul Malik Mujahid

Since Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim Americans have spent good amount of our time and resources praying, preaching and marching for peace. Still, Anxiety about Muslim Americans is at an all-time high.

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Joy Resmovits

Teachers Should Make Between $60,000 and $150,000, Arne Duncan Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Education News, New York City Schools, New York City Department of Education, Education, Arne Duncan, American Federation of Teachers, Rand Corporation, Merit Pay, Teacher Incentive Fund, Education News

WASHINGTON -- Teachers should have salaries starting at $60,000 and the opportunity to make up to $150,000 based on performance, U.S. Secretary of Edu...

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The Surprising Effect Of War On Military Marriages

Robert Hughes, Jr. | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Stress, Military Couples, Army, Ucla, John Crown, Benjamin Karney, Deployment, Air Force, Navy, Rand Corporation, Divorce News
Robert Hughes, Jr.

There have been numerous reports that the marriages of military couples are under threat due to the stress of the recent wars and the long and dangero...

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The Insurance Industry's Scheme to Circumvent Reform and Make You Pay More Than Ever for Health Care

Wendell Potter | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Commonwealth Fund, Rand Corporation, Ahip, Health Insurers, Health Care Reform, Karen Ignagni, Hmos, Gao, Business News
Wendell Potter

If the health insurance industry gets its way, not only will it be able to gut important provisions of the health care reform law, it will put all of us in a forced march into inadequate plans, and, at the same time, into the swelling ranks of the underinsured.

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Mark Blumenthal

Award Rebuffs Critics Of DADT-Ending Survey

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Blumenthal | Posted 07.16.2011

Read More: Don't Ask Don't Tell, John McCain, Rand Corporation, Pollster Analysis, Aapor, American Association for Public Opinion Research, Dadt Repeal, Dadt, John Mccain Dadt, John McCain Don't Ask Don't Tell, Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal, Westat, Politics News

PHOENIX -- When the Department of Defense released its Don't Ask Don't Tell survey of service members and their spouses in December of last year, Sen....

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Why Dick Lugar Wants Drawdown; Why Defense Industries Don't

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Rep Mike Honda, Afghanistan War, Joint Strike Fighter, Rand Corporation, Peace and Security Taskforce, Afghanistan, President Obama, Senator Dick Lugar, 9/11, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden Death, Politics News
Rep. Mike Honda

Now, given Osama bin Laden's death, we must seize this moment to heal from the past harm done to our homeland and ensure that no further harm is done to our troops, by bringing them home.

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California Marijuana Proposition Update

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marijuana, Allen Hopper, Obama, Stephen Downing, Prohibition, California, League of United Latin American Citizens, Yes on Prop 19, Hopper, Yes on 19, Barack Obama, Weed, Rand Corporation, Tom Angell, Tenther, Prop 19, Supremacy Clause, Proposition 19, Aclu, Argentine Davila Luevano, Angell, Boldin, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The federal government is going to have limited legal options, at best, if it tries to overthrow the "will of the people" (assuming, of course, that Proposition 19 actually passes), as evidenced best by the fact that the medical marijuana laws still stand.

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The Enduring Truth-Telling of Noam Chomsky

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jihad, Rand Corporation, Noam Chomsky, Nick Cohen, Ronald Reagan, World News
Johann Hari

Chomsky is trying to rescue crimes from the memory-hole, so we can remember them. In his new book, for example, he explains that Ronald Reagan -- the great hero of the American right -- was a champion of jihadism.

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Washington 'Should Cut Pakistani Aid,' Says New RAND Report

Huffington Post | Nicholas Sabloff and Doug Sarro | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kandahar, Taliban, UN@Y:World, Washington, Pakistan, United Nations, Rand Corporation, Gizab, World News

AfPak news round-up: RAND: Washington should cut aid to Pakistan. A new report by the RAND Corporation, which claims the Pakistan government to use m...

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Israel vs Turkey: Which Serves US Interests Better?

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gaza, Flotilla, Israel, Jews, Anthony Cordesman, Turkey, World, Washington, Stephen Walt, Veto, US Foreign Policy, Gaza Blockade, Ankara, UN Security Council, Cold War, Rand Corporation, Strategic Interests, Steven Cook, Politics, John Mearsheimer, Diplomacy, US, World News
Sharmine Narwani

In the "strategic interest" contest between Israel and Turkey, I suspect the United States will ultimately find more shared values with Turkey -- but only if we can break the dangerous hold Israel has over us.

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Report: Iraq War Undercut U.S. Credibility, Hobbled Democratic Reform

Matthew Duss | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iraq War, Iraq, Rand Corporation, Middle East, Taliban, Dana Rohrbacher, Rand, Al Qaeda, World News
Matthew Duss

A recent RAND study of the regional effects of the war states, "Iraq's instability has become a convenient scarecrow [for] neighboring regimes [who assert] that democratization inevitably leads to insecurity."

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How Obama Got Framed in Afghanistan

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Iran, Al Qa?Ida, Rand Corporation, War on Terror, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, President Obama, Iraq, Osama, Taliban, Afghanistan War, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andrew Kimbrell

The war story leaves us in the position of trying to defend the sacrifice of our soldiers and treasure to defend the hopelessly corrupt Karzai government.

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Letting a Private Think Tank Facilitate DADT's Repeal

Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gays in the Military, Don't Ask Don't Tell, US Military, Rand Corporation, Gay Rights, Military, Blackwater, RAND Corportation, Privatization, Politics News
Emma Ruby-Sachs

It's bad enough that the federal government has decided that the DADT repeal must be preceded by a year-long study. Now we're learning that that study is being outsourced to think tank contractors.

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The "Goldilocks Principle" and Afghan War Options

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, George Ball, George Kahin, Rand Corporation, Afghanistan Occupation, President Barack Obama, Juan Cole, Lindsey Graham, The Nation, Peter Baker, Afghanistan War, William Polk, American War in Afghanistan, Nato, American Military Forces, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Goldilocks Principle, William Westmoreland, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, New York Times, General Stanley McChrystal, Joe Lieberman, Afghanistan, Lyndon Johnson, Undersecretary of State George Ball, Helene Cooper, Robert Dryfuss, Vietnamization, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

General McChrystal's recommendation for more troops and material has a distinctly Westmorelandian flavor to it. If approved, it could create an additional $40 to$80 billion per annum in war costs.

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"Leave Them Back!"

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New-York-City-Economy, New York City Department of Education, New York City Unemployment, Joel Klein, School Reform, New York Schools, Education Reform, Social Promotion, Rand Corporation, New York News
Alan Singer

Social promotion was never a big problem. Politicians, including both Thompson and Mayor Moneybags, created an unnecessary furor and stigmatized a tiny fraction of the student population.

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Obama's Legacy: The Death of the GOP

Alex Abella | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arlen Specter, Linguistics, Congress, Rand Corporation, Ronald Reagan, University of Chicago, Barack Obama, Politics News
Alex Abella

After Senator Arlen Specter's stunning switch in party affiliation, the Republicans in Congress will be reduced to a sputtering stump group of grumpy old white men who just don't get it.

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Alan Hoffman Returns To Washington As VP-Elect Joe Biden's Deputy Chief Of Staff

Erin Medlicott | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: VP-Elect Joe Biden, U.S. Senate, Alan L. Hoffman, University of California, Chief of Staff, Sen. Joe Biden, Joe Biden, Obama-Biden, Biden for President, Rand Corporation, Politics News
Erin Medlicott

As U.S. Senator Joe Biden's (D-DE) Chief of Staff from 1998 through 2003, Alan L. Hoffman directed Biden's agenda, communications and political operations, and managed everything from legislative affairs to personnel.

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Sex: Why We HATE Talking About It To Our Kids

Dr. Meg Meeker | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Stds, Talking to Kids About Sex, Teen Stds, Teens and Sex, Adolescents and Sex, Rand Corporation, Health, Sex on Television, Healthy Living News
Dr. Meg Meeker

by Meg Meeker, MD It cost the Rand Corporation millions of dollars to discover this: Teens who watch too much sex on TV have too much sex and get pre...

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This Election, Plates of Human History Will Shift

Michael Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mccain, Jonestown, Obama, Devil We Know, Chris Matthews, Iowa, Change Candidate, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, T. Boone Pickens, Obama Muslim, Obama Marxist, George W. Bush, Marxist, Barack Obama, Swift Boat, Bush Administration, Rand Corporation, Obama Change, McCain Attack Ads, Election 2008, Millions Uninsured, Muslim, Health Care, Obama Smears, Home News
Michael Hughes

As November 4th approaches, voters are determining if they want to be an integral part of history, or on the wrong side of it. Forces are at work beyond description, like some divine hand pushing us forward.

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Pakistan Trained Taliban Insurgents, Betrayed American Troop Movements: US Think Tank

AP | JASON STRAZIUSO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taliban, Pakistan, Rand Corporation, Pakistan Trained Taliban, Pakistan Betrayed US Troop Movements, Warwire, Afghanistan, Politics News

KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistani intelligence agents and paramilitary forces have helped train Taliban insurgents and have given them information ...

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