How summer programs can boost children’s learning
2011 study by RAND Corporation on the potential of educational programs in minimizing summer learning losses and their associated costs.
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Displaced and dispossessed of Darfur: Explaining sources of genocide
2011 report in the British Journal of Sociology on underlying and environmental factors that fueled the mass killing in Darfur.
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Collective efficacy and major depression in urban neighborhoods
2011 study in American Journal of Epidemiology on how depression rates are affected by types and qualities of city neighborhoods.
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Migrating to opportunities: How family migration motivations shape childrens’ academic trajectories
Study in Journal of Social Issues on differences in family priorities and learning outcomes for immigrant children.
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World Health Organization: World Health Statistics 2011
2011 report from the World Health Organization on progress in meeting the U.N.’s health-related Millennium Development Goals.
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Body norms and fat stigma in global perspective
2011 study by Arizona State University published in Current Anthropology how body norms and fat stigma are evolving worldwide.
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U.S. human trafficking incidents, 2008-2010
2011 report by U.S. Department of Justice on crimes involving human smuggling, forced labor and prostitution.
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Family income and child brain growth
2011 study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Harvard University published in the online journal Plos ONE on impacts of poverty on child brain growth.
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Community information and civic engagement
2011 survey by Pew, Knight and Monitor Institute on how information sharing can spur community engagement and satisfaction.
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Causes of gender differences in political knowledge
2009 study by the University of Missouri in Political Behavior on the origins of the male-female divide in knowledge of politics.
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