Author: National Research Council

Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is a...

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 U.S. military does not believe its soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines should be engaged in combat with adversaries on a level playing field...

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

This report offers a summary of the substantive presentations during an international workshop, Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Bi...

In the last 20 years, there has been a remarkable emergence of innovations and technological advances that are generating promising changes and opp...

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

The goal of this study was to assess the value and feasibility of developing and implementing content standards for engineering education at the K-...

Assessment of Supercritical Water Oxidation System Testing for the Blue Grass Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant reviews and evaluates the resu...

Driven by discoveries, and enabled by leaps in technology and imagination, our understanding of the universe has changed dramatically during the co...

Extremely hazardous substances can be released accidentally as a result of chemical spills, industrial explosions, fires, or accidents involving ra...

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

Animals are widely used in neuroscience research to explore biological mechanisms of nervous system function, to identify the genetic basis of dise...

Motivated by the explosion of molecular data on humans-particularly data associated with individual patients-and the sense that there are large, as...

Much of the ecological research in the past decades has focused on rural or wilderness areas. Today, however, ecological research has been taking p...

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...

Review of the Research Program of the U.S. DRIVE Partnership: Fourth Report follows on three previous NRC reviews of the FreedomCAR and Fuel Partne...

Climate change, driven by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, poses serious, wide-ranging threats to human societie...

For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a str...

International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY) was an intense, coordinated field campaign of observations, research, and analysis. It was the largest, mo...

Early childhood care and education (ECCE) settings offer an opportunity to provide children with a solid beginning in all areas of their developmen...

The U.S. Congress charged the National Academies with conducting a review of the Internal Revenue Code to identify the types of and specific tax pr...

The Chemical Sciences Roundtable (CSR) was established in 1997 by the National Research Council (NRC). It provides a science oriented apolitical fo...

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

Computing and information and communications technology (ICT) has dramatically changed how we work and live, has had profound effects on nearly eve...

Chemistry graduate education is under considerable pressure. Pharmaceutical companies, long a major employer of synthetic organic chemists, are dra...

Derelict satellites, equipment and other debris orbiting Earth (aka space junk) have been accumulating for many decades and could damage or even po...

Young adulthood - ages approximately 18 to 26 - is a critical period of development with long-lasting implications for a person's economic security...

During the 1980s and 1990s, the National Weather Service (NWS) undertook a major program called the Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR...

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...