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After decades of stability from the 1920s to the early 1970s, the rate of imprisonment in the Uni...

The Determinants of Brazil's Recent Rapid Decline in Fertility

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The Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERF) is a bold, ambitious plan that proposes a rev...

Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children explores...

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This book brings together in one volume what researchers have learned about workers, employers, a...

'The National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), at the U.S. National Foundat...

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This book examines the human factors issues associated with the development, testing, and impleme...

Everyone is in favor of 'high education standards' and 'fair testing' of student achievement, but...

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Since 1992, the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) has produced a book on principles and p...

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Many people believe that environmental regulation has passed a point of diminishing returns: the ...

Since the late 1970s when Congressman Claude Pepper held widely publicized hearings on the mistre...

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'Since 1969, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has been providing policymake...

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On October 14 and 15, and December 8, 2021, the Board on Science Education at the National Academ...

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Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an...

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Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the famil...

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The National Academies Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on Environmen...

'In 2018, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated 70.8 million people could b...

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Cybercrime Classification and Measurement

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