Describes the first phase (2001-2004) of Qatar's bold K12 education reform initiative, Education for a New Era, based on Rand's experiences as part of this ambitious, multiparticipant effort. Rand examined the existing Qatari education system, recommended options for building a worldclass system, and supported implementation of the chosen option, which is based on internationally benchmarked curriculum standards and parental choice of schools.

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

Politics & Social Sciences

Goldman, Charles A.

Augustine, Catherine H.

Zellman, Gail L.

Brewer, Dominic J.

Ryan, Gery

Social Sciences

RAND Corporation

Initiatives to coordinate schools, cultural institutions, community-based organizations, foundations, and/or government agencies to promote access to arts education in and outside of schools have recently developed. This study looks at the collaboration efforts of six urban communities: how they started and evolved, the kinds of organizations involved, conditions that helped and that hindered coordination, and strategies used.

Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide: Coordination

Bodilly, Susan J.

Arts & Photography

Since the 1970s, Qatar has complemented in-country post-secondary education with scholarship programs and study-abroad opportunities, but the system may benefit from organization and other changes. This report summarizes the results of an evaluation of Qatar1s scholarship system and describes proposed reforms drawn from comparative assessments of countries with similar characteristics and interviews with a wide-ranging group of stakeholders.

Aligning Post-Secondary Educational Choices to Societal Needs: A New Scholarship System for Qatar (Technical Report)

Krop, Cathy

Anthropology

This study documents actions of Wallace Foundation grantees to create morecohesive 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 systems improve school leadership. Such efforts appear to be a promising approach to developing school principals engaged in improving instruction.

Improving School Leadership: The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems

Business & Money

Gonzalez, Gabriella

Ikemoto, Gina Schuyler

Russell Irish food is more than corned beef and cabbage. Darina Allen proves it wit, Jennifer

Management & Leadership

The Wallace Foundation’s National Summer Learning Study, conducted by RAND and launched in 2011, offers the first assessment of district-run voluntary summer programs over the short and long run. This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.

Ready for Fall?: Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes (Rand Summer Learning)

Education & Teaching

Zakaras, Laura

McCombs, Jennifer Sloan

Pane, John F.

Schwartz, Heather L.

Martorell, Paco

Schools & Teaching

The National Summer Learning Project, launched by the Wallace Foundation in 2011, includes an assessment of the effectiveness of voluntary, district-led summer learning programs offered at no cost to low-income, urban elementary students. In this third report in a series, RAND researchers examined student outcomes at four points during and after the years the programs were held.

Learning from Summer: Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth

Schweig, Jonathan

McEachin, Andrew

Siler-Evans, Kyle

During the school year leading up to summer 2015, summer leaders in three cities made concerted efforts to integrate their summer learning programs into the core priorities and operations of the larger school district as a strategy to increase sustainability. This report examines these efforts and their impacts. The recommendations we provide should be useful to leaders of district-led summer programs and others who support sustaining them.

Making Summer Last: Integrating Summer Programming into Core District Priorities and Operations (Rand Summer Learning)

Computers & Technology

Thompson, Lindsey E.

Programming

Investing in Successful Summer Programs: A Review of Evidence Under the Every Student Succeeds Act

Marsh, Terry

Naftel, Scott

Unlu, Fatih

Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M.

Gomez, Celia J.

Akinniranye, Goke

Todd, Ivy

This report offers practical guidance for out-of-school-time programs and out-of-school-time intermediaries that wish to incorporate social and emotional learning activities into their programming for youth. The lessons are derived from the RAND Corporation's study over four years of more than 100 afterschool programs across six communities participating in The Wallace Foundation's Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative.

Skills for Success: Developing Social and Emotional Competencies in Out-of-School-Time Programs

Faxon-Mills, Susannah

Tuma, Andrea Prado

Leschitz, Jennifer T.

Tosh, Katie

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