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Apr 28, 2025

Demystifying the Department of Veterans Affairs Budget Process: An Explainer

This report presents an overview of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA’s) budget, its funding sources, and its flexible authorities. The authors describe VA’s budget process and some of the pressing VA-related issues that policymakers face.
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Apr 25, 2025

Innovations in Veteran Suicide Prevention: A Discussion with Policy Experts

The RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute hosted a webinar to discuss innovations in veteran suicide prevention.
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Apr 24, 2025

The BHP Foundation’s Education Equity Program: Summative Evaluation Report

This report presents summative findings from an evaluation of the BHP Foundation’s Education Equity program. It includes evidence of the program’s impacts and lessons learned related to its design and implementation.
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Apr 9, 2025

Creating a Nationally Representative Survey Panel of Public School Pre-K Teachers

This report describes the effort to recruit public school pre-kindergarten (pre-K) teachers to the American Teacher Panel. Authors discuss the sample, recruitment methods, recruitment results, and weighting approach to surveys with pre-K teachers.
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Apr 9, 2025

American Public School Pre-K Teacher Survey: Spring 2024 Technical Documentation and Survey Results

This technical report contains descriptions of the data, samples, and methodology for the spring 2024 Pre-Kindergarten Teacher Survey, including survey results.
Research

Apr 8, 2025

More Districts Are Training Teachers on Artificial Intelligence: Findings from the American School District Panel

In this report, the authors provide a snapshot of the prevalence of district support of teachers’ training on the use of AI in schools, updated from previous research conducted in fall 2023.
Research

Apr 8, 2025

Technical Documentation for the Tenth American School District Panel Survey

The authors of this report provide technical information about the fall 2024 survey of the American School District Panel. They describe the survey administration and weighting processes they used to produce nationally representative estimates.
Research

Mar 27, 2025

General Education Biology Labs: A Delphi Study of Student Learning Outcomes

We conducted an online modified-Delphi study of student learning outcomes for non-majors biology, and developed recommendations for coordinating lecture and lab activities to promote more rigorous learning and better attainment of learning outcomes.
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Mar 26, 2025

Prioritizing Curriculum-Based Professional Learning for Mathematics Teachers: District, Principal, and Teacher Perspectives from the American Educator Panels

The authors explore factors in school leaders' selection of math-focused professional learning (PL); teachers' experiences with math-focused PL; perceived usefulness of these activities; and the extent to which math-focused PL is curriculum based.
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Mar 20, 2025

Microschools as an Emerging Education Model: Implications for Research and Evaluation

The authors provide an overview of the microschooling landscape and articulate key design considerations so that future studies can be designed to support valid and trustworthy inferences about microschool impacts.
Research

Mar 13, 2025

Instruction About Social and Political Topics in K–12 Public Schools: Findings from the 2024 State of the American Teacher Survey

The authors present the findings from a survey administered in January and February 2024 to teachers across the United States to examine teachers' reports of their instruction about social and political topics in class.
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Mar 5, 2025

Modeling Physician Workforce Supply, Demand, and Need Using System Dynamics: Model Structure and Assumptions

The authors present a new system dynamics simulation model of the physician workforce in the United States, which includes clinical need, supply, and demand factors. Model structure and assumptions and future directions are also described.

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Demystifying the Department of Veterans Affairs Budget Process: An Explainer

Innovations in Veteran Suicide Prevention: A Discussion with Policy Experts

The BHP Foundation’s Education Equity Program: Summative Evaluation Report

Creating a Nationally Representative Survey Panel of Public School Pre-K Teachers

American Public School Pre-K Teacher Survey: Spring 2024 Technical Documentation and Survey Results

More Districts Are Training Teachers on Artificial Intelligence: Findings from the American School District Panel

Technical Documentation for the Tenth American School District Panel Survey

General Education Biology Labs: A Delphi Study of Student Learning Outcomes

Prioritizing Curriculum-Based Professional Learning for Mathematics Teachers: District, Principal, and Teacher Perspectives from the American Educator Panels

Microschools as an Emerging Education Model: Implications for Research and Evaluation

Instruction About Social and Political Topics in K–12 Public Schools: Findings from the 2024 State of the American Teacher Survey

Modeling Physician Workforce Supply, Demand, and Need Using System Dynamics: Model Structure and Assumptions

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