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Commentary

Aug 16, 2024

Community-Driven Recovery: The Lahaina Wildfires a Year Later

Lahaina can benefit tremendously from a community-driven approach to identifying recovery needs. This involves working closely with survivors themselves to understand their housing, health, economic, social, and other needs.
Research

Mar 28, 2024

Analysis of Alternative Uses for the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility

In response to three fuel releases, the Secretary of Defense authorized the permanent closure of the Navy’s Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in Hawaii. This report fulfills a congressional requirement to assess alternatives for reusing the site.
Commentary

Sep 20, 2023

Disaster Recovery Creates Its Own Bubble

Shortages of workers and materials inevitably make rebuilding slower and more expensive after a natural disaster. In Maui, this is likely to be a problem for agencies like FEMA that provide public assistance. But it will also be a problem for individual households if private insurance payouts are insufficient to rebuild.
Commentary

Sep 6, 2023

After Maui Fires, Food Security Is a Major Concern and Opportunity

The full impact of the deadly Maui fires on food resilience strategies remains to be seen. But the disaster highlights an urgent need for a systems-based approach to address both food security and wildfire prevention.
Commentary

Aug 21, 2023

Much of the Damage in Maui Will Be Invisible, but Very Real

In addition to decimating buildings and other infrastructure, disasters also destroy human capital, the collective knowledge and skills that drive individual economic earnings, as well as regional economic growth. Failing to address these more-hidden damages is incredibly costly.
Research

Oct 25, 2022

Early Childhood Educators in Hawaiʻi: Addressing Compensation, Working Conditions, and Professional Advancement

This report documents the low wages, few benefits, and mixed working conditions for the early care and education (ECE) workforce and provides strategies for investing in improvements that would help with recruiting and retaining ECE workers.
Commentary

Jan 24, 2018

Deadly Delay: Every Second Counts in Missile Defense

The false alarm about a ballistic missile attack on Hawaii raises important questions. How much warning time would the public get before a missile hit? And how should the system be improved?
Research

Feb 9, 2017

Assessing the Need for Supercomputing Resources Within the Pacific Area of Responsibility

This report evaluates the capabilities, challenges, and future options for the Maui High Performance Computing Center, providing important context about the center as decisionmakers work toward resolving its budget gap.
Research

Apr 22, 2016

Good Seeing: Best Practices for Sustainable Operations at the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site

Presents a framework developed to survey the most appropriate analog facilities to the Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing Site in order to provide suggestions for how the Air Force might further streamline its operations and minimize costs.
Commentary

Dec 21, 2015

Hawaii Reading Scores Improved After 'Preschool to Third Grade' Initiative

Hawaii's “preschool to third-grade” initiative significantly improved third-grade reading scores. The P-3 approach is a promising education reform that should be considered by those seeking to improve early education performance.
Commentary

Nov 23, 2015

A Comprehensive Approach to Early Education

A relatively new approach to improving long-term educational outcomes, called “preschool to third grade,” or P-3, focuses on the youngest students. Hawaii's recent initiative has been successful at raising third-grade reading scores.
Research Summary

Oct 7, 2015

The Hawai'i Preschool-Third Grade Education Reform Initiative: How Well Did P–3 Work?

Summarizes findings from an evaluation of Hawai'i's statewide preschool through third grade (P-3) initiative, which aims to have every child in Hawai'i read at grade level by third grade.

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