Author: Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

Government statistics are widely used to inform decisions by policymakers, program administrators, businesses and other organizations as well as ho...

This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on ...

The Society Security disability program faces urgent challenges: more people receiving benefits than ever before, the prospect of even more claiman...

How do you get a fourth-grader excited about history? How do you even begin to persuade high school students that mathematical functions are releva...

Publicly available statistics from government agencies that are credible, relevant, accurate, and timely are essential for policy makers, individua...

This report examines the portfolio of research and development (R&D) expenditure surveys at the National Science Foundation (NSF), identifying ...

Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disabili...

This book reviews the evaluation research literature that has accumulated around 19 K-12 mathematics curricula and breaks new ground in framing an ...

The national income and product accounts that underlie gross domestic product (GDP), together with other key economic data—price and employment sta...

International trade plays a substantial role in the economy of the United States. More than 1.6 billion tons of international merchandise was conve...

The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Research Council (NRC) convened a workshop on June 15-16, 2004, to review federal res...

Many low-income families struggle with stable housing and frequently have to move due to foreclosures, rent increases, or other financial setbacks....

Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years, and have used the re...

Practitioners in informal science settings--museums, after-school programs, science and technology centers, media enterprises, libraries, aquariums...

Engineering education in K-12 classrooms is a small but growing phenomenon that may have implications for engineering and also for the other STEM s...

All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or "mine" personal data -- such as phone records or Web sites visited -- should be re...

U.S. business data are used broadly, providing the building blocks for key national-as well as regional and local-statistics measuring aggregate in...

In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large-scale tests of students as a mechanism for improvin...

The Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED) collects data on the number and characteristics of individuals receiving research doctoral degrees from all a...

Biosocial Surveys analyzes the latest research on the increasing number of multipurpose household surveys that collect biological data along with t...

U.S. public schools are responsible for educating large numbers of English language learners and students with disabilities. This book considers po...

Since 1992, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) has produced a book on principles and practices for a federal statistical agency, updatin...

The deficiencies that many children experience from birth to school age—in health care, nutrition, emotional support, and intellectual stimulation,...