Author: Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools, or programs to student test performance....

As the United States continues to be a nation of immigrants and their children, the nation's school systems face increased enrollments of students ...

Although people in the United States have historically been reasonably supportive of federal censuses and surveys, they are increasingly unavailabl...

Because of the role of innovation as a driver of economic productivity and growth and as a mechanism for improving people's well-being in other way...

Undergraduate research has a rich history, and many practicing researchers point to undergraduate research experiences (UREs) as crucial to their o...

Aging populations are generating both challenges and opportunities for societies around the globe. Increases in longevity and improvements in healt...

The American Community Survey (ACS) was conceptualized as a replacement to the census long form, which collected detailed population and housing da...

National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) of the National Science Foundation is responsible for national reporting of the rese...

Proposed Revisions to the Common Rule for the Protection of Human Subjects in the Behavioral and Social Sciences examines how to update human subje...

In the coming years, complex domestic and international environments and challenges to national security will continue. Intelligence analysts and t...

Science educators in the United States are adapting to a new vision of how students learn science. Children are natural explorers and their observa...

For children and youth, summertime presents a unique break from the traditional structure, resources, and support systems that exist during the sch...

One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produce...

Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by The Committee on Population of the National Research...

Accessible and affordable housing can enable community living, maximize independence, and promote health for vulnerable populations. However, the U...

The United States is responsible for nearly one-fifth of the world's energy consumption. Population growth, and the associated growth in housing, c...

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

Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in a democracy. For decades, sample surveys with ins...

In the U.S. criminal justice system in 2014, an estimated 2.2 million people were in incarcerated or under correctional supervision on any given da...

The term service-learning generally refers to projects planned as components of academic coursework in which students use knowledge and skills taug...

To examine the science, policy, and practice surrounding supporting family and community investments in young children globally and children in acu...

Note: This is the French translation of Recent Fertility Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fertility rates and population growth influence economic dev...