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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 …
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 …
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 …
Training the Future Child Health Care Workforce to Improve the Behavioral Health of Children, Youth, and Families
Increasing numbers of evidence-based interventions have proven effective in preventing and treating behavioral disorders in children. However, the adoption of these interventions …
Data Needs for the State Children's Health Insurance Program
The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was established by Congress to provide health insurance to uninsured children whose family income was too high for Medicaid …
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 …
Advancing Risk Communication with Decision-Makers for Extreme Tropical Cyclones and Other Atypical Climate Events
Atypical weather events, such as extreme tropical cyclones, pose substantial threats to life, property and livelihoods in the U.S. and worldwide. Despite major advances in …
Monitoring Progress Toward Successful K-12 STEM Education
Following a 2011 report by the National Research Council (NRC) on successful K-12 education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Congress asked the National …
Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life
In their later years, Americans of different racial and ethnic backgrounds are not in equally goodor equally poorhealth. There is wide variation, but on average older Whites are …
Training the Future Child Health Care Workforce to Improve the Behavioral Health of Children, Youth, and Families
Increasing numbers of evidence-based interventions have proven effective in preventing and treating behavioral disorders in children. However, the adoption of these interventions …
Best Practices for State Assessment Systems, Part I
Educators and policy makers in the United States have relied on tests to measure educational progress for more than 150 years. During the twentieth century, technical advances, …
Fostering Independence, Participation, and Healthy Aging Through Technology
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) have had prominent roles in discussions of aging, disability, and technology for decades. In 1978, Aging and …