Since the 1960s, the academic achievement gap between black and white students in the United States has been prevalent. Black student academic achievement is on average two grade levels below whites. In the last 30 years, ...

For more than twenty-five hundred years of recorded history the creation and communication of knowledge has increased in quantity and complexity. The method of communicating that knowledge has evolved in difficulty along ...

Between “movers” who transfer schools, and “leavers” who exit the profession, teacher attrition rates have hovered around 16 percent for the past several decades. This is exceptionally high compared to other industrialized ...

We report results of a randomized control trial in which parents of primary school leavers were encouraged to open a convenient bank account operated over a mobile money platform. A lock savings account (LSA) was randomly ...

There is a marked underrepresentation of women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) careers. Fewer women enter STEM fields in college and persistence rates are lower among female STEM majors than among their ...

It is estimated that 43% of women suffer from sexual dysfunction. Women expect their providers to evaluate their sexual health, yet most clinicians do not because they feel they do not have the time, training, or knowledge ...

Economic restructuring changes the distribution of labor earnings and family incomes, with

Previous studies have concluded that residential segregation is negatively associated with educational attainment for blacks, but new research indicates that it may also be related to Bachelor’s Degree attainment for whites ...