The Four-Day School Week, AI and Social Media Manipulation, School Safety: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the costs and benefits of a four-day school week, how artificial intelligence is bringing a new era of social media manipulation, the effects of placing police officers in schools, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 8, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Insomnia: The Multibillion-Dollar Problem Sapping World Productivity
From the doctor ' s office to the office at work, good sleep is often overlooked as a key part of well-being. We pay for that. Chronic insomnia reduces the U.S. economy by more than $200 billion every year. Other major economies also forgo tens of billions of dollars in lost productivity. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 8, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
U.S. and Israel on Parallel Paths
From the political roles of religious fundamentalism, to the inability of either side to find compromise with the other, to leaders facing legal struggles, the United States and Israel have a lot in common. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Brian Michael Jenkins Source Type: blogs
Speaking in One Voice to Advance Space Acquisition
Space acquisition is hard, and many challenges remain today for development of true unity of effort. But a new“clean sheet” is not the answer. Such an approach simply cannot take the place of doing the hard work required to realize enduring change. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Stephanie Young Source Type: blogs
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. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Lena Easton-Calabria Source Type: blogs
Trauma Takes a Toll in the U.S. Intelligence Community
For people in the intelligence community, the risk of experiencing a variety of traumas is very real. Agencies should look more closely at their workforces to better understand the traumas their analysts face and what they can do to help. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
The Solution to Telemedicine Prescribing of Buprenorphine Seems Clear to Everyone but DEA
For more than a decade, Congress, clinicians, and policymakers have been requesting implementation of a special registration pathway that would allow registered clinicians to prescribe buprenorphine without an in-person visit requirement. It ' s clear to us that the time to implement the pathway is now. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 5, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Lori Uscher-Pines Source Type: blogs
The State of Public Education, the Opioid Crisis, Defending Taiwan: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on the state of public education in America right now, a missing piece of the strategy for addressing the opioid crisis, emerging technology that could help defend Taiwan, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - September 1, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Money, Markets, and Machine Learning: Unpacking the Risks of Adversarial AI
The consequences of ignoring the problem of adversarial attacks in algorithmic trading are potentially catastrophic. In a world increasingly reliant on machine learning models, the financial sector needs to shift from being reactive to proactive to ensure the security and integrity of our financial system. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 31, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Joshua Steier Source Type: blogs
A Four-Day School Week? Here Are the Costs and Benefits
Hundreds of small school districts across America have cut one day a week from their calendars. A shorter school week helps them compete for teachers and reduce costs. Teachers and parents love it. But is it really in the best interests of students? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 31, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
A Trilateral Summit to Deal with Trilateral Threats
The leaders of Japan, South Korea, and the United States held a trilateral summit in August, focused on countering military threats in East Asia. Not surprisingly, China and North Korea were upset by the summit, designed as it was to respond to their military build-ups. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 29, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Bruce W. Bennett Source Type: blogs
A Potential Alternative for Regulating Internet-Based Platform Services
The use of internet-based platform services like Amazon, DoorDash, and Uber Eats is increasing and can be helpful. But the companies that offer these services may be engaging in predatory practices that can harm users and local businesses. Some form of centralized policy action may help; local governments could play a more-active role. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 29, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Swaptik Chowdhury Source Type: blogs
Hard Times for U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control
New START is slated to expire in February 2026 and cannot be extended. The next chapter in U.S.-Russia nuclear arms control, if there is to be one, may not be written until rulers in Moscow ease repression at home, pull troops out of Ukraine, and recognize the mutual benefits of reducing, rather than stoking, nuclear tensions. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 28, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Frank G. Klotz Source Type: blogs
China Ponders Russia's Logistical Challenges in the Ukraine War
Any attempt by China to use military force to seize Taiwan would be an immense logistical undertaking requiring moving large quantities of troops and materiel across the Taiwan Strait. What then, are Chinese observers learning from the logistical realm of the war in Ukraine? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 28, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Lyle Goldstein Source Type: blogs
Five Charts That Tell Us About the State of Public Education Right Now
To monitor trends in public education, RAND fields over a dozen surveys annually to teachers, principals, and superintendents. Five charts tell us the most about the state of public education right now: staff turnover; teacher well-being; guns in schools; quality of academic instruction; and politics in schools. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 28, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Melissa Kay Diliberti Source Type: blogs
