How does your kindergarten classroom affect your earnings?
2010 study from Harvard, Northwestern, and the University of California, Berkeley, researchers on the potential long-term effects of high-quality early education.
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Epidemiology of HIV infection in large urban areas in the United States
2010 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others on HIV/AIDS trends and ways to improve prevention and treatment programs.
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Disparities in obesity patterns among adolescents
2010 study by researchers from UCSF, the University of Oklahoma and UC Berkeley on the prevalence of obesity among California public school students.
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Disparities faced by boys and men of color in California
2009 RAND Corporation study on the disparities between Latino and African-American males and their white counterparts in California.
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School crime control and prevention
2009 Duke University and the University of Maryland study looking at school characteristics that influence the level of crime.
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Geographic and ethnic patterns of metropolitan planning boards
2006 paper by the Brookings Institution exploring the potential for bias in the structure of metropolitan planning organizations.
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Perceptions of minority residents on coalition building in South Los Angeles
2007 Tomas Rivera Policy Institute paper examining the sources of tension between African-Americans, Latinos and others in South L.A. June, 2007
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Charter school effects on achievement, integration and competition
2009 RAND Corporation study based on data from more than 600 charter schools.
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