Author: Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

The U.S. government supports programs to combat global HIV/AIDS through an initiative that is known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Reli...

Federal household surveys today face several significant challenges including: increasing costs of data collection, declining response rates, perce...

The recent movement in K-12 education toward common standards in key subjects represents an unprecedented opportunity for improving learning outcom...

Americans have long recognized that investments in public education contribute to the common good, enhancing national prosperity and supporting sta...

The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) is the principal federal agency supporting applied research, training, and...

Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves understood and to understand others to remain cognitive...

Financing Long-Term Services and Supports for Individuals with Disabilities and Older Adults is the summary of a workshop convened in June 2013 by ...

The Children's Health Act mandated the National Children's Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute o...

The National Science Foundation funded a synthesis study on the status, contributions, and future direction of discipline-based education research ...

In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, e...

Sociocultural Data to Accomplish Department of Defense Missions: Toward a Unified Social Framework summarizes presentations and discussions that to...

National Patterns of R&D Resources is an annual report issued by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the Nati...

The National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

A high level of literacy in both print and digital media is required for negotiating most aspects of 21st-century life, including supporting a fami...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) have had prominent roles in discussions of aging, disability, and technolog...

The United States is in the midst of a major demographic shift. In the coming decades, people aged 65 and over will make up an increasingly large p...

A Framework for K-12 Science Education and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) describe a new vision for science learning and teaching that is...

Federal household surveys today face several significant challenges including: increasing costs of data collection, declining response rates, perce...