2010 study by University of Pittsburgh and University of Maryland on outcomes for youth placed in alternate forms of foster care.

2010 study from Harvard, Northwestern, and the University of California, Berkeley, researchers on the potential long-term effects of high-quality early education.

2010 study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others on HIV/AIDS trends and ways to improve prevention and treatment programs.

2010 study by researchers from UCSF, the University of Oklahoma and UC Berkeley on the prevalence of obesity among California public school students.

2009 RAND Corporation study on the disparities between Latino and African-American males and their white counterparts in California.

2009 Duke University and the University of Maryland study looking at school characteristics that influence the level of crime.

2006 paper by the Brookings Institution exploring the potential for bias in the structure of metropolitan planning organizations.

2007 Tomas Rivera Policy Institute paper examining the sources of tension between African-Americans, Latinos and others in South L.A. June, 2007

2009 RAND Corporation study based on data from more than 600 charter schools.