Neighborhood circumstances and children’s life chances: Landmark study from Harvard
2015 study from Harvard showing how neighborhood circumstance can have a substantial impact on a child’s future earnings.
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Measuring the dispositions that make teachers effective: Research brief
2015 research brief on best practices for finding and developing effective teachers, by Nicholas D. Hartlep, Christopher M. Hansen and Brian R. Horn of Illinois State University.
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What children experience when mothers, fathers or both parents are incarcerated: Research brief
2015 research brief on the experiences of boys and girls who have had incarcerated parents compared to those who had not, by Allison Dwyer Emory of Cornell University.
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Child cognitive development and socioeconomic status: What do we know?
2015 study in Nature Neuroscience showing the relationship between a child’s family income and parental education levels and the amount of brain surface area.
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Urban charter schools and student gains: 2015 findings from Stanford University
2015 study from Stanford researchers suggesting overall gains for urban charter schools, relative to traditional schools; growth was particularly strong for disadvantaged students.
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Millennials, news and important trends: Research data from the Media Insight Project
2015 report from the American Press Institute and the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research on how persons age 18 to 34 engage with news and their online habits.
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The law and social science of stop-and-frisk tactics by the police
2014 study by Yale examining recent scholarship on the effectiveness of “stop, question and frisk” and how it affects public perceptions of and interactions with the police.
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Violent media and real-world behavior: Historical data and recent trends
2015 study from Stetson University published in Journal of Communications that explores violence in movies and video games and rates of societal violence over the same period.
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Juvenile incarceration and its impact on high school graduation rates and adult jail time
2015 study in The Quarterly Journal of Economics showing how early incarceration hurts high school graduation rates and increases the chances of further contact with the criminal justice system.
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The contested field of violent video games: Research roundup
2013 review of scholarly studies that examine possible positive and negative outcomes of violent video game play, including links to aggressive behavior.
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