In its latest look at teacher staffing in the Providence Public School District, the Annenberg Institute at Brown University says it finds cause “for optimism” in how teachers are being retained in the state’s largest school district and an equal cause “for concern.”

With numbers for January showing that inflation stands at 3.1 percent down from 9.1 percent inflation peak in mid-2022, the “soft landing” scenario — reducing the post-COVID era inflation without tipping into a recession—has become the most likely one.

Researchers studying the COVID-19 pandemic will maintain wide access to this paradigm-shifting historical record at its new placement at Syracuse University

No perfect parenting method exists. But a number of decades ago, educators thought differently – so much so that they acquired babies from local orphanages for home economics students to "parent."

Many of those displaced also reported food shortages and predatory scams, according to new data from the Census Bureau.

The Pandemic Journaling Project (PJP) offers insight into people’s lives and experiences from May 2020 to 2022 in 55 countries through nearly 27,000 online journal entries of text, images, and audio.

"About half of American adults have hypertension and of them only half of them have it under control," said Dr. Eric Loucks, director of the mindfulness center at Brown, who designed this study.

Compared to students entering kindergarten before the pandemic, current students started school with weaker math and reading skills and were less likely to start school at grade level, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Oxfam International published its inequality report this month, detailing a slew of grim predictions about the ever-widening wealth gap.

Once program co-founder asks, ‘Why couldn't you just teach every kid in America to read one-on-one?’

Sociologist Ananda Martin-Caughey is re-examining social survey data to analyze the impacts of job title stratification.

Suicide and overdoses are among the leading causes of maternal death in the U.S.

Most part-time workers in America are women — leaving them with less access to retirement plans and less money to sock away.

An ongoing project will help the School of Public Health generate recommendations for how to handle another event like COVID-19.

By reevaluating existing data, researchers find the procedure is even more valuable than consensus had indicated.

John Papay's and colleagues' research on "Understanding High Schools’ Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes" was chosen as the most important education study of 2023 by Amber Northern, Vice President of Research for the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, during the Research in Review segment of the Institute's last podcast of the year.

To help students regain academic ground lost during the pandemic, schools have often rearranged their class schedules to eke out more time for instruction in individual subjects. But new research suggests adding extra time to the school calendar—rather than rescheduling classes—is what really adds up for students over time.

PSTC researcher Daniel Jordan Smith’s 2022 book documents how citizen-government relationships in Nigeria have been impacted by the state’s infrastructural shortcomings.

The top 1% of American earners now control more wealth than the nation’s entire middle class, federal data show.

Brown University’s Emily Oster says Zelma could democratize school performance data as schools struggle to recover from pandemic.

Brown University analysis of test data shows that ‘recovery is possible,’ but many states lag behind.

A research project called MAPPS is convening a wide array of community members to better understand how social mixing contributes to virus spread, and how that may inform future pandemic response.

Using innovative survey techniques, the project aims to comprehensively document the experiences of migrants to the U.S. from Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Before rushing to build the next DARPA, we need to assess the R&D model we have.