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Text-Based Accountability Systems: Lessons of Kentucky's Experiment

A recent RAND report offers the first comprehensive evaluation of the effects of Kentucky's assessment program on achievement, examining the extent to which increases in scores indicate true gains in student learning.

Jan 1, 1999
Report

Florida's Medicaid Mental Health Carve-Out: Lessons from the First Years of Implementation

Reports the results of an experiment with managed mental health care for Medicaid enrollees that was conducted in Tampa Bay, Florida.

Jan 1, 1999
Report

The Effects of a No-pay/No-play Plan on the Costs of Auto Insurance in Texas

The Effects of a No-pay/No-play Plan on the Costs of Auto Insurance in Texas

Jan 1, 1998
Report

The effects of Florida's Medicaid eligibility expansion for pregnant women

The effects of Florida's Medicaid eligibility expansion for pregnant women

Jan 1, 1998
Report

Medicaid health maintenance organizations : can they reduce program spending?

Medicaid health maintenance organizations : can they reduce program spending?

Jan 1, 1996
Report

Evaluation of a Medicaid-Eligibility Expansion in Florida: Developing the Database

To examine the effects of the 1989 Medicaid-elibigility expansion for pregnant women in Florida, the authors constructed a linked person-level database that contained information from eight different files.

Jan 1, 1996
Journal Article

Identifying Modifiable Risk Factors for Rehospitalization: A Case-Control Study of Seriously Mentally Ill Persons in Mississippi

The authors used a case-control design to identify risk factors for rehospitalization in a seriously mentally ill population in rural Mississippi.

Jan 1, 1995
Report

Rehospitalization of the Seriously Mentally Ill in Mississippi: Conceptual Models, Study Design, and Implementation

Presents a model of illness severity and a model of hospital recidivism for persons with chronic mental illness, particularly schizophrenia.

Jan 1, 1989
Report

Comparison of values of a spot market for electricity

This paper is concerned with a market for electricity that has been successfully operating in Florida since 1978--the Florida Energy Broker. The Broker provides an hourly spot market for energy traded at a wholesale level between utilities with bilat...

Jan 1, 1984
Report

San Antonio Real Property Maintenance Area: Overview of a Regional Consolidation of Base Support Services

This Note reports on a survey of operating experience in the San Antonio Real Property Agency (SARPMA) — an organization formed to consolidate buildings and grounds maintenance functions for four Air Force bases, ...

Jan 1, 1983
Report

A Spot Market for Electricity: Preliminary Analysis of the Florida Energy Broker

Proposals for increased competition in the electric utility industry have suffered from a lack of empirical evidence on the feasibility of coordinating decentralized facilities. The Florida Energy Broker, which has operated since 1978, is an example...

Jan 1, 1982
Report

Resource Estimate for Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) in the Gulf of Mexico

An analysis and first-order estimate of the thermal resource available in the Gulf of Mexico that can be profitably extracted by ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology.

Jan 1, 1980
Report

The Transition from High School to College: A Study of Freshman Enrollments in Florida.

The Transition from High School to College: A Study of Freshman Enrollments in Florida.

Jan 1, 1975
Report

The University of Texas Dental Branch Clinical Encounter System.

Describes the independent-access Clinical Encounter Simulator used at the innovative University of Texas Dental Branch in Houston. Based upon a unique three-dimensional intraoral camera and still-picture storage on video disc, it gives individualize...

Jan 1, 1975
Report

Energy Policy Research and the State of Florida.

A discussion of state energy problems and the research required to support the selection of policies designed to solve them. The example chosen is the State of Florida, in which future energy demands may be in conflict with its unique environment, a...

Jan 1, 1973
Report

Case Studies in Educational Performance Contracting: Norfolk, Virginia

Describes Learning Research Associates' (LRA) contract instruction in reading, using regular reading teachers, in two poor, predominantly black Norfolk schools where students unable to read are common in higher elementary grades.

Jan 1, 1971
Report

Case Studies in Educational Performance Contracting: Texarkana, Arkansas; Liberty-Eylau, Texas

Describes the first two years of the pioneering Texarkana performance contracting programs, under a five-year ESEA Title VIII program to cut dropouts and improve achievement among the many disadvantaged blacks and whites in the newly integrated school systems.

Jan 1, 1971
Report

The Health Delivery System for the Poor in the State of Arkansas.

A description of what medical services are provided, who receives them, and who pays for them that will serve as a base case for an Arkansas Planning Commission study of alternative delivery systems. Of $28 million spent on medical services for the ...

Jan 1, 1970
Report

The Supply of Physicians in the State of Arkansas.

Four models are used to estimate the future supply and distribution of physicians in Arkansas in 1970-1980 and to illustrate forecasting techniques that will be helpful to the Arkansas Planning Commission in long-range planning. The form of the mode...

Jan 1, 1970
Report

Resource Analysis Model for the Arkansas State Police

ARREST (Arkansas Resource Requirements Estimated for Special Tasks) is a resource analysis model developed during a 4-month study of the Arkansas State Police.

Jan 1, 1970

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