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The State of U.S. Railroads
U.S. railroads have improved their productivity, but increasing freight volume threatens performance-degrading capacity constraints. This report describes the current state of railroad capacity and performance for freight transportation. The public consequences of private investment decisions justify a public role in addressing concerns about railroads, but better data and analysis are needed to inform transportation policymaking.
Lessons from the Field
Central to Qatar's education reform was the development of internationally benchmarked curriculum standards and standards-based assessments in four subjects: Arabic, English as a foreign language, mathematics, and science. This report recounts the development of Qatar's standards-based student assessment system, providing important lessons learned for Qatar and other countries that are seeking to implement similar measures on a large scale.
Does Higher Education Teach Students to Think Critically?
There is a discernible and growing gap between the qualifications that a university degree certifies and the actual generic, 21st-century skills with which students graduate from higher education. By generic skills, it is meant literacy and critical thinking skills encompassing problem solving, analytic reasoning and communications competency.
PISA 2006 Science Competencies for Tomorrow's World: Volume 1: Analysis
PISA 2006: Science Competencies for Tomorrow’s World presents the results from the most recent PISA survey, which focused on science and also assessed mathematics and reading. It is divided into two volumes: the first offers an analysis of the results, the second contains the underlying data.
PISA 2006 Naturwissenschaftliche Kompetenzen für die Welt von morgen
Naturwissenschaftliche Kompetenzen für die Welt von morgen Sind die Schülerinnen und Schüler gut auf die Herausforderungen der Zukunft vorbereitet? Können sie analysieren, logisch denken und ihre Ideen effektiv kommunizieren? Haben sie die ...
Benjamin S. Bloom
Few individuals in the history of education have had greater impact on educational policy and practice than Benjamin S. Bloom. During a career that spanned over five decades, his research and writing guided the development of innumerable educational programs and provided powerful insights into the untapped potential of educators to help all students learn well. Benjamin S. Bloom spent most of his professional life at the University of Chicago, where he held the Charles H. Swift Distinguished Service endowed chair. At this university, he founded and chaired the program in Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis (or MESA), authored or co-authored 17 books, and wrote numerous journal ...
Mapping Corporate Education Reform
Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these relationships and describe their effects both in the U.S. and abroad. Through a series of case studies, each chapter reveals how powerful actors, from billionaire philanthropists to multinational education corporations, leverage their resources to implement free market mechanisms within public education. By comprehensively connecting the dots of neoliberal education reforms, the authors reveal not only the details of the reforms themselves, but the relationships that enable actors to amass troubling degrees of political power through network governance. A critical analysis of the actors and interests behind education policies, Mapping Corporate Education Reform uncovers the frequently obscured operations of educational governance and offers key insights into education reform at the present moment.
¿La educación superior enseña a pensar críticamente?
Existe una brecha notoria y creciente entre las cualificaciones que certifica un grado universitario y las competencias genéricas del siglo XXI con las que se gradúan realmente los estudiantes al final de la educación superior. Cuando hablamos de competencias genéricas nos referimos a las habilidades de lectoescritura y pensamiento crítico que incluyen las habilidades de solución de problemas, razonamiento analítico y capacidad de comunicación. A medida que la automatización se va apropiando de las tareas no cognitivas, o de bajo nivel cognitivo, en el mundo laboral actual, estas competencias genéricas empiezan a cobrar un valor especial, pero el hecho de tener un grado terciario n...
¿La educación superior enseña a pensar críticamente?
Existe una brecha notoria y creciente entre las cualificaciones que certifica un grado universitario y las competencias genéricas del siglo XXI con las que se gradúan realmente los estudiantes al final de la educación superior. Cuando hablamos de competencias genéricas nos referimos a las habilidades de lectoescritura y pensamiento crítico que incluyen las habilidades de solución de problemas, razonamiento analítico y capacidad de comunicación. A medida que la automatización se va apropiando de las tareas no cognitivas, o de bajo nivel cognitivo, en el mundo laboral actual, estas competencias genéricas empiezan a cobrar un valor especial, pero el hecho de tener un grado terciario n...
Education for a New Era
Describes the first phase (2001-2004) of Qatar's bold K-12 education reform initiative, Education for a New Era, based on RAND's experiences as part of this ambitious, multi-participant effort. RAND examined the existing Qatari education system, recommended options for building a world-class system, and supported implementation of the chosen option, which is based on internationally benchmarked curriculum standards and parental choice of schools.
