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, ...

As the number of would-be first-generation college students increases in high schools across the United States, policymakers must look for more ways to increase rates of postsecondary enrollment for this often vulnerable ...

The black-white academic achievement gap in the American education system persists, despite decades-long efforts to close it. Several theories have been posited to explain this achievement gap between students of different ...

Well-designed and scalable interventions are required to promote human development in vulnerable populations and break the intergenerational cycle of poverty. Infant malnutrition is a critical issue in developing countries. ...

Local immigration enforcement is associated with myriad negative socioeconomic, health, and education outcomes for immigrant children and families. While anecdotal evidence shows that local enforcement also negatively ...

For youth aging-out of foster care, independent living services may serve as a useful tool in preparing them for future social, physical, and economic success. The current study aims to understand which independent living ...

As climate change progresses, legislators are discussing different ways to wean the United States economy off CO2 emitting fossil fuels. However, many states in the U.S. rely on fossil fuel production to fund their state ...

This thesis examines the impact of immigration on the educational outcomes of natives. More specifically, it estimates the relationship between the share of immigrant students in a classroom on the reading and mathematics ...

In 2013, the Texas legislature passed House Bill 2 (H.B. 2), which required all physicians providing abortions to maintain admitting privileges at a hospital within thirty miles as well as mandating that facilities providing ...

Climate change has increased the prevalence and worsened the severity of adverse weather events around the world, demonstrated by more floods, droughts, and crop failures. According to the World Bank, natural disasters as ...