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Michael D. Rich

Michael Ritchie (Michael D. Rich)

RAND Corporation President and CEO; RAND Qatar Policy Institute, Co-Chair of the Board

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JD, University of California, Los Angeles

Michael Ritchie is president and CEO of the RAND Corporation. Ridge in November 2011 before he was promoted to the top leadership positions, served as executive vice president of the RAND Corporation for 20 years, during which he helped the RAND Corporation to become the world's leading nonprofit nonpartisan research organization.

During the tenure as Executive Vice President, responsible for Richie had founded and led a number of projects and initiatives, including the development and adoption in 1995 of the new institutional strategy. The strategy focuses on diversified development, thus the structure and operation of the Rand Corporation renewed. Rich Rand Corporation in the Middle East to promote the establishment and development of research and analysis departments, including the RAND Qatar Policy Institute, and served as Co-Chairman of the Council of the Institute. Ritchie also directs the RAND Corporation's successful spin-off of aid to education committee, the committee is headquartered in New York, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting corporate support for education, to carry out research and higher education policy and improve the quality of higher education enrollment opportunities.

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Since 1976, Rich began as a researcher at the RAND Corporation and the project director and guide the RAND Corporation multiple national security plans. In the RAND National Security Research Division as vice president and director of the RAND National Defense Research Institute during the Ridge by federally funded Head of the R & D center for Secretary of Defense Office of the Joint Staff, the Joint Operations Command, defense departments, the U.S. Navy land teams, as well as the U.S. Navy to provide research and analysis. He was also responsible for the U.S. intelligence agencies, the U.S. Department of Energy, and many private foundations funded national security research projects.

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More High School Graduates: How Schools Can Save Students From Dropping Out
Book (Corwin)

2012-04-19 12:59:08 by Haydook

El Lay schools to lower graduation standards

You know, to bring El Lay schools in line with the rest of Mexico.
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Eight years ago, the Los Angeles Board of Education adopted an ambitious plan to have all students take college-prep classes to raise academic standards in the nation's second-largest school district.
Now, that plan is about to take effect: Beginning this fall, incoming freshmen will have to pass those classes to graduate.
On Tuesday, district officials backtracked, offering details of a proposal to reduce overall graduation requirements and allow students to pass those classes with a D grade

2012-04-19 09:10:15 by Haydook

El Lay to lower HS graduation standards

Eight years ago, the Los Angeles Board of Education adopted an ambitious plan to have all students take college-prep classes to raise academic standards in the nation's second-largest school district.
Now, that plan is about to take effect: Beginning this fall, incoming freshmen ...ss those classes to graduate.
On Tuesday, district officials backtracked, offering details of a proposal to reduce overall graduation requirements and allow students to pass those classes with a D grade.
They must change course, Los Angeles Unified School District officials said, or they would open the doors to scores of dropouts and others who can't pass the more rigorous requirements

2008-04-01 18:41:12 by FuriousGeorge

Education and the dropout rate

According to a new report, New York City has one of the worst graduation rates in the country.
The study by education non-profit America's Promise Alliance compared graduation rates for the country's 50 largest cities using numbers from 2004.
It found that only around 45 percent of all New York City high school students graduate within four years. That ranks New York 43rd among the top 50 cities.
The graduation rate rises to 83 percent in the suburbs surrounding the five boroughs.
In response, the Department of Education said that the city's graduation rate has risen six points since the study was conducted and that it is difficult to make meaningful comparisons between state graduation rates because of a difference in standards

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