Adding It Up explores how students in pre-K through 8th grade learn mathematics and recommends ho...

For the first time, a report focuses specifically on middle childhood--a discrete, pivotal period...

With literacy problems plaguing as many as four in ten children in America, this book discusses h...

In November 2000, the Board on International Comparative Studies in Education (BICSE) held a symp...

In response to the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), Systems for State Science Assessment ...

Special education and gifted and talented programs were designed for children whose educational n...

The Value of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences to National Priorities

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) live in the American imagination as prom...

The AIDS virus is spread by human behaviors enacted in a variety of social situations. In order t...

Being able to communicate is a cornerstone of healthy aging. People need to make themselves under...

Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that affect ...

Do child care centers and family day care homes provide quality care for the children they serve?...

More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half giv...

Is it possible for people to register and retain what is said in their presence while they sleep?...

With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through Mar...

'Research shows that that children learn science and engineering subjects best by engaging from a...

Our current information ecosystem makes it easier for misinformation about science to spread and ...

More than 1 million teenage girls in the United States become pregnant each year; nearly half giv...

In this summary of a unique conference on urban violence, mayors, police chiefs, local, state, an...

Is it possible for people to register and retain what is said in their presence while they sleep?...

Federal government statistics provide critical information to the country and serve a key role in...

The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES),...

'Using Science as Evidence in Public Policy encourages scientists to think differently about the ...

A Common Destiny

'How Students Learn is also available in three paperback versions of the original title. Each vol...

The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for the...

'Standards' offers a vision of scientific literacy, describing what all students should understan...

'The U.S. government supports programs to combat global HIV AIDS through an initiative that is kn...

Because of the role of innovation as a driver of economic productivity and growth and as a mechan...

On May 23, 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Behaviora...

The workplace is where 156 million working adults in the United States spend many waking hours, a...

This is a report on changing patterns of sexual behavior and intravenous drug use, the distributi...

There are numerous reasons to hasten the introduction of new and improved contraceptives--from he...

Indigenous communities experience higher risks for suicide compared to the general U.S. populatio...

Procedures for Testing Color Vision

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and ot...

The integration and coordination of health, education, nutrition, social protection, and other se...

In the early years of robotics and automated vehicles, the fight was against nature and not again...

Adolescence--beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20s--is a critical period ...

In 1982 the Census Bureau requested the Committee on National Statistics to establish a panel to ...

With examples, insights, and practical criteria, this volume reviews the most popular approaches ...

Based on the National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Sci...

There are many reasons to be curious about the way people learn, and the past several decades hav...

For NASA and other federal science agencies, concerns about workforce and public understanding of...

Transforming education into an evidence-based field depends in no small part on a strong base of ...

'As the demographics of the United States shift toward a population that is made up of an increas...

In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to devel...

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030 strive for a world that is 'just, ...