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  • Cultural Oasis: For Arab Children, Collected Works Offer Roads to Tolerance, Critical Thinking

    Cultural Oasis: For Arab Children, Collected Works Offer Roads to Tolerance, Critical Thinking

    by Jeffrey Martini • Gail L. Zellman • Laura S. Hamilton • Michal Perlman • Jennifer L. Steele

    Feature stories discuss the promotion of tolerance and critical thinking in the Arab world through children's media, the challenges faced by the United States in an era of fiscal austerity, and promising models for measuring teacher performance. Two other stories highlight the National Science Foun... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2013
  • Assessing the Validity of the Qualistar Early Learning Quality Rating and Improvement System as a Tool for Improving Child-Care Quality

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

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

    As a result of the generally low quality of child care in the United States, quality rating and improvement systems (QRISs) are proliferating in the child-care arena. This study examines the QRIS developed by Qualistar Early Learning, a nonprofit organization based in Colorado, evaluating how reliab... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2008
  • Improving School Leadership: The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems

    Improving School Leadership: The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems

    by Gail L. Zellman • Gina Schuyler Ikemoto • Catherine H. Augustine • Jennifer Russell • Gabriella Gonzalez

    This study documents actions of Wallace Foundation grantees to create more-cohesive policies and initiatives to improve instructional leadership in schools; describes how states and districts have worked together to forge such policies and initiatives; and examines the hypothesis that cohesive syste... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2009
  • Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Executive Summary

    Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Executive Summary

    by Lynn A. Karoly • Gail L. Zellman • Megan K. Beckett • Ashley Pierson

    The landscape of early learning and out-of-school-time programs in the City of Santa Monica is complex, with numerous providers and funding streams. This complexity reflects its evolution in response to changes in federal, state, and local priorities and initiatives. Future shifts in funding levels,... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations

    Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations

    by Lynn A. Karoly • Gail L. Zellman • Megan K. Beckett • Ashley Pierson

    In July 2012, the City of Santa Monica Human Services Division and the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District contracted with the RAND Corporation to conduct an assessment of child care programs in Santa Monica. The project sought to assess how well Santa Monica's early and school-age care pro... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2014
  • Education for a New Era: Design and Implementation of K-12 Education Reform in Qatar

    Education for a New Era: Design and Implementation of K-12 Education Reform in Qatar

    by Gail L. Zellman • Catherine H. Augustine • Charles A. Goldman • Gery W. Ryan • Gery Ryan • Dominic J. Brewer

    Describes the first phase (2001-2004) of Qatar's bold K-12 education reform initiative, Education for a New Era, based on RAND's experiences as part of this ambitious, multi-participant effort. RAND examined the existing Qatari education system, recommended options for building a world-class system,... More

    Language: ENG
    Copyright: 2007
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