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90.5 WESA
March 13, 2018
However, the think tank RAND Corporation studied the technology, and said it could not draw a causal relationship between personalized learning programs and improved student test scores. And some teachers also question how helpful the software is. Julian Cortella is a teacher who formerly taught atÃâà...
Baltic Times
March 13, 2018
The US think-tank RAND Corporation said last week that despite NATO's steps to deter Russia, the latter would have an advantage over the Alliance in the initial days of a conflict in the Baltic Sea region. The report comes amid continuing concern in the region over Russia's annexation of Crimea andÃâà...
Morningstar.com
March 13, 2018
Miller: RAND Corporation did a study that came out last year that's interesting. In general, you will find numbers out there that there's a 35% chance that you will need to be in a nursing home sometime in your life, maybe for a very short period of time. RAND broke it down much more specifically looking atÃâà...
Newsweek
March 7, 2018
A new report from the Rand Corporation has warned that NATO would be overwhelmed by superior Russian firepower in the event of war in Eastern Europe, despite years of trying to strengthen its forces in the region. If war were to break out, the report warns, Russia could quickly overrun the Baltic regionÃâà...
The American Prospect (blog)
March 7, 2018
As Congress moves ahead with plans to outsource more and more veteran health care to the private sector, three high-profile studies should urge lawmakers to pump the brakes. The studies, published in recent weeks by RAND Corporation, Federal Practitioner, and the National Academies of Science,Ãâà...
Business Insider
March 6, 2018
The gun problem in America goes beyond high-profile mass shootings — those only account for about one half of one percent of annual gun deaths in the US, according to a new study from the non-partisan Rand Corporation. Yet over the course of a lifetime, your odds of being murdered by someone with a gun in the USÃâà...
Vox
March 5, 2018
To get a sense of the arguments on both sides, I spoke with three North Korea experts: the RAND Corporation's Bruce Bennett, the Heritage Foundation's Bruce Klingner, and the Middlebury Institute's Jeffrey Lewis. All three had different assessments of Trump's policy, ranging from mostly positive (Bennett)Ãâà...
Business Insider
March 5, 2018
Hypersonic cruise missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) can bypass missile defenses because they are so fast and can maneuver mid-flight. Technology is now being developed that overcomes previous obstacles to sustained hypersonic flight, and the RAND Corporation estimates that these weapons willÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
March 5, 2018
As the debate around gun laws continues in the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting last month, a new report by the nonprofit RAND Corporation looks at some of the factors that could affect gun policies like background checks, age limits and banning assault weapons. Andrew Morral, a seniorÃâà...
NPR
March 4, 2018
The nonprofit RAND Corporation has analyzed thousands of studies to try to evaluate the results of specific gun policies - whether, for example, certain policies led to a decrease in homicide or suicide. NPR science reporter Rebecca Hersher has looked into this, and she is with us now. Rebecca, thanks forÃâà...
New York Times
March 3, 2018
Scholars at the nonpartisan RAND corporation recently surveyed the current evidence about gun safety and violence. After a two-year study, they published their results Friday, with a big review of the literature and a set of research recommendations. One of their biggest conclusions was that we don't haveÃâà...
NPR
March 2, 2018
The nonprofit RAND Corporation analyzed thousands of studies and found only 63 that establish a causal relationship between specific gun policies and outcomes such as reductions in homicide and suicide, leaving lawmakers without clear facts about one of the most divisive issues in American politics.
Techworld.com
February 12, 2018
"Every asshole on the face of the planet has complete and open and unrestricted access to our public social media data – everybody except the United States government." That's the verdict of senior information scientist at the RAND Corporation, Dr Rand Waltzman, speaking about the state of 'cognitiveÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
A new RAND Corporation study has found that the “provision of US military assistance may be associated with increased state repression and incidence ... may deter state actors from declaring war, but a "US military presence may increase interstate militarized activities short of war," the RAND report said.
