This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Urban Alliance, launched in 1996, is building a diverse next-generation workforce by providing job skills training, mentoring, and paid internships to high school youth from under-resourced communities, predominantly youth of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Diverse representative leadership in the United States is taking on deeper meaning in 2022 – especially for the nation’s 22.9 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders who call the country home. Anti-Asian…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The governing of public schools in many communities is nearing total collapse. From coast to coast, border to border, local school boards are fighting over matters ranging from painting over…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Nearly three decades after contracting malaria multiple times in childhood, Dr. Rose Jalang’o is now spearheading Kenya’s rollout of the groundbreaking malaria vaccine. The RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine was approved by the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers analyzed and mapped soil lead concentrations along 25 miles of streets in Durham, North Carolina, a city of about 270,000 people. They found that while soil lead levels have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Climate change is not just an environmental crisis but a human crisis. It is an umbrella issue that will impact every facet of society and exacerbate existing problems like inequality…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All students have unique strengths and needs that vary over time and are expressed differently. This year, the world has experienced extraordinary unforeseen challenges with the dual pandemics of COVID-19…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The discontinuation of the Biden administration’s monthly payments of the child tax credit could leave millions…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As an environmental psychologist who works to improve young people’s access to nature, I recently completed a review that brings two bodies of research together: one on connecting children and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic, which began as a shock to our lives in 2020 and continues to affect everything we do as a nation, changed the fabric and rituals of daily…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This month marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of No Child Left Behind, President George W. Bush’s landmark education legislation championed by bipartisan leaders ranging from Ted Kennedy to John…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. D.C. has experimented with flexible benefit programs, including a “shallow rental subsidy” kicked off in 2017 that offered families $7,200 at the start of the year and allowed families to spend…