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The Workshop on the Role of Language in School Learning: Implications for Closing the Achievement Gap was held to explore three questions: What is ...

A mismatch between the federal government's revenues and spending, now and in the foreseeable future, requires heavy borrowing, leading to a large ...

Intangible assetswhich include computer software, research and development (R&D), intellectual property, workforce training, and spending to ra...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has played a key role over the past several decades in advancing understanding of Earth's systems by funding ...

Suicide prevention initiatives are part of much broader systems connected to activities such as the diagnosis of mental illness, the recognition of...

To explore how mobile technology can be employed to enhance the lives of older adults, the Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences of ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is resulting in widespread and ongoing changes to how the K-12 education system functions, including disruptions to science t...

The Board on Science Education and the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicin...

The United States is formally represented around the world by approximately 14,000 Foreign Service officers and other personnel in the U.S. Departm...

Widely available, trustworthy government statistics are essential for policy makers and program administrators at all levels of government, for pri...

Disparities in educational attainment among population groups have characterized the United States throughout its history. Education is sometimes c...

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, whic...

The world is transforming its energy system from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), th...

In the last twenty years, citizen science has blossomed as a way to engage a broad range of individuals in doing science. Citizen science projects ...

Every year roughly 100,000 fatal and injury crashes occur in the United States involving large trucks and buses. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety A...

Patterns of food consumption and nutritional intake strongly affect the population's health and well-being. The Food Economics Division of USDA's E...

Engineering education is emerging as an important component of US K-12 education. Across the country, students in classrooms and after- and out-of-...

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to u...

With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, E...

In July 2016 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop with the goal of bringing together industrial and or...

Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, people face an increasing need to integrate information ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is one of the United States' leading federal science, technology, engineering, and mathema...