The role of socioeconomic status in SAT score, grades and college-admissions decisions
2012 study from the University of Minnesota published in Psychological Science on socioeconomic status, SAT scores and college admissions.
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Persistent cannabis users show neuropsychological decline from childhood to midlife
2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the potential relationship between the long-term use of marijuana and IQ declines.
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Pew report: The high cost, low return of longer prison terms
2012 Pew Center on the States report on incarceration rates in the United States, strategies and costs they impose, from 1990 to 2009.
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Creating “no excuses” (traditional) public schools: Evidence from Houston
2011 study from Harvard University examining whether techniques used to raise scores in charter schools can be successfully transplanted to traditional public schools.
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Pew Research Center: The lost decade of the middle class
2012 report from the Pew Research Center on survey data relating to middle-class Americans, with economic context from government data.
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Voter ID, voting rights and election 2012: Research roundup
2012 review of relevant studies, reports and media resources relating to voter disenfranchisement, fraud and other issues.
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Unauthorized alien students: Issues and “DREAM Act” legislation
2012 report by the CRS summarizing the proposed immigration reforms on permanent residency status for unauthorized alien students in the United States.
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“Social science done on deadline”: Research chat with ASU’s Steve Doig on data journalism
2012 interview between News21 collaborators ASU professor Steve Doig and Alex Remington, of Journalist’s Resource.
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Influence of Democratic and Republican conventions on opinions of the presidential candidates
2012 study from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in American Political Research on the impact of conventions on opinions of the nominees.
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Evangelical elites’ changing responses to homosexuality, 1960-2009
2012 study from researchers at Purdue University published in Sociology of Religion on the evolution in attitudes of evangelicals toward gays over time.
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