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Future Directions for the Demography of Aging
Almost 25 years have passed since the Demography of Aging (1994) was published by the National Research Council. Future Directions for the Demography of Aging is, in many ways, the …

America's Lab Report
Laboratory experiences as a part of most U.S. high school science curricula have been taken for granted for decades, but they have rarely been carefully examined. What do they …

Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade
In 1993 the National Research Council released its landmark report Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (NRC, 1993). That report identified child maltreatment as a devastating …

Cultivating Interest and Competencies in Computing
Computing in some form touches nearly every aspect of day to day life and is reflected in the ubiquitous use of cell phones, the expansion of automation into many industries, and …

Advancing Sustainability of U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Drylands
The drylands region shared by the United States and Mexico currently faces multiple sustainability challenges at the intersection of the human and natural systems. Warming and …

Engaging Schools
When it comes to motivating people to learn, disadvantaged urban adolescents are usually perceived as a hard sell. Yet, in a recent MetLife survey, 89 percent of the low-income …

Developing and Evaluating Methods for Using American Community Survey Data to Support the School Meals Programs
The National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program, administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), are key components …

Toward a 21st Century National Data Infrastructure: Enhancing Survey Programs by Using Multiple Data Sources
Much of the statistical information currently produced by federal statistical agencies - information about economic, social, and physical well-being that is essential for the …

ICT Fluency and High Schools
Information and communications technology (ICT) pervades virtually all domains of modern lifeeducational, professional, social, and personal. Yet although there have been numerous …

Small Populations, Large Effects
In the early 1990s, the Census Bureau proposed a program of continuous measurement as a possible alternative to the gathering of detailed social, economic, and housing data from a …

Assessing the Role of K-12 Academic Standards in States
Every state in the United States, the District of Columbia, and the Department of Defense Education Activity now has its own academic standards, at least in core subjects. These …

Human Factors Research Needs for an Aging Population
This book describes the demographic, sociological, and ecological background of the aging society, identifies human factors problems associated with aging, summarizes currently …