In this slim volume, Tough pulls together
decades of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior, and makes a cogent, convincing argument for why this research should lie at the center of any discussions about reform.
In Helping Children Succeed, Paul Tough pulls together decades
of social science research on the impacts of poverty and trauma on kids» brains and behavior to make a cogent, convincing argument for why we need to stop blaming kids for their learning difficulties or simply push them to become more «gritty.»
The IRRC Institute ensures the availability of its funded research through the sponsorship
of the Social Science Research Network's Corporate Governance Network that serves as an online repository for thousands of research papers and abstracts.
The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold
standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.
Prewitt, president
of the Social Science Research Council in New York, would succeed Martha Farnsworth Riche, who resigned last January after years of battling Congress over the issue of statistical sampling.
The most rigorous
piece of social science research on what happens to such veterans when they return looked at people from conflicts in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya and other jihadist battlefronts (American Political Science Review, vol 107, p 1).
ESRC Society Today offers free access to a broad
range of social science research and presents it in a way that makes it easy to navigate and saves users valuable time.
Building relationships, raising the
profile of social science research and identifying opportunities for collaboration will be the main focus of the team made up of three Knowledge Navigators.
«You don't need an awful
lot of social science research to prove that common - sense proposition: If you waste money you're not going to see results.»»
Way back in 2001, Northwestern Professor Tom Cook penned an article for Education Next that implored education researchers to embrace randomized experiments, complaining that education was the one
area of social science research that was lagging behind in this regard.
And
reams of social science research show that strong unions do much more than that: They bolster regional economies, increase democratic participation, and even strengthen the social safety net for non-unionized workers.
Darren Sherkat was indeed the scholar engaged by the
editor of Social Science Research, James Wright, to conduct an internal audit of the review process that led to the publication of Regnerus's findings in the New Family Structures Study.
A popular
strain of social science research conceptualizes interracial unions as social exchanges, with the implicit assumption that white is «better,» at least in the eyes of the romantic partners.
Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee and Sir Andrew Dilnot, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority, will also speak at the event, providing their views on the
importance of social science research to the understanding of society today.
On their 50th anniversary we're reminded not only of the quality and
value of social science research in the UK, but also of the central role the ESRC plays in maintaining and advancing the strength of social science, making the UK a partner of choice for world - class research.
The evening forms the flagship event of the ESRC Festival of Social Science, a week - long series of free events around the country, allowing members of the public to interact with academics at the
forefront of social science research.
Decades
of social science research describing the harms of racially isolated schools and the benefits of diverse schools has informed the development of federal policy — and even many states» charter school legislation.
Kirp's analysis lacks the power to answer these questions because it violates a central
tenet of social science research — it selects on the dependent variable.
Diane Ravitch received the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, created to honor those individuals whose careers in the academic or public area have been dedicated to the
use of social science research to improve public policy in New York on June 2, 2011.
In either case, it appears that NCAR, having removed almost all
signs of social science research from its programs, is unwilling and unprepared to be societally relevant in the coming years.
While I may not be unbiased, since the author draws upon work Aaron McCright and I have done, I think this is a very insightful use and
extension of social science research that is packaged in a manner that is likely to be effective in reaching a crucial audience — presumably a heavily conservative, white male one.
Too often, Mooney concludes, scientists lack much understanding of a substantial body
of social science research explaining the many reasons for the gap between information and understanding.
This denier
pre-emption of social science research echoes Frank Luntz» infamous 2002 memo advising Republicans to attack the scientific consensus on climate change in order to erode public support for climate policies - long before social scientists began researching the link between perception of consensus and support for climate action.
Editor, Legal Scholarship Network (
division of Social Science Research Network) «Immigration, Refugee, and Citizenship Law Abstracts» Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bar of the District of Columbia Hispanic National Bar Association; Amicus Curiae Committee (Member) Law and Society Association
Ocean scores have been used in a wide
swath of social science research, including many of the long - term studies that look at people who've lived into their 90s or 100s and assess the kinds of personality traits they have in common.