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The Most Frequently Cited Topics in Urban Planning Scholarship
(MDPI, 2020-01-17)
Analyses of faculty citation activity usually focus on counts as a function of author characteristics, such as rank, gender, previous citation levels, and other factors influencing productivity and career path. Citation ...
Community Social Polarization and Change: Evidence from Three Recent Studies
(MDPI, 2020-05-29)
This review article analyzes three major recent books (written by Robert Wuthnow, Arlie R. Hochschild, and James and Deborah Fallows, respectively) concerning ongoing political, economic and social change in United ...
Urban Residential Building Energy Consumption by End-Use in Malawi
(MDPI, 2020-02-18)
Buildings account for about 40% of the global energy consumption and this energy demand is projected to continue growing over the next few decades. Residential buildings are responsible for over 60% of this consumption ...
Development of a Responsible Policy Index to Improve Statutory and Self-Regulatory Policies that Protect Children’s Diet and Health in the America’s Region
(MDPI, 2020-01-13)
In 2010, 193 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) endorsed World Health Assembly Resolution WHA63.14 to restrict the marketing of food and beverage products high in fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) to children ...
2019 College Senior Survey
(Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA, 2020-02-01)
The Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP) has administered the College Senior Survey since 1993; this year marked the 27th administration of the survey. This report highlights data from 17,363 seniors graduating ...
How has COVID-19 impacted FAFSA submissions?
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-07-01)
COVID has led colleges to brace for potential enrollment declines in the Fall, which would devastate budgets and potentially decrease the likelihood a student ever earns a degree. We take an early look at California’s FAFSA ...
Why Have College Completion Rates Increased?
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-07-01)
College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed--since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. The authors investigate the reasons for the increase in ...
Segregation Forever?
(The Education Trust, 2020-07-21)
While the COVID-19 pandemic and the police killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks have shined a bright light on systemic racism in U.S. public health and policing, there is less awareness of the many ...
Incentivizing Equity? The Effects of Performance-Based Funding on Race-Based Gaps in College Completion
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-08-01)
Performance-based funding models for higher education, which tie state support for institutions to performance on student outcomes, have proliferated in recent decades. Some states have designed these policies to also ...
The Effects of Educational Supports for the "Missing One-Offs" in Vocational High Schools
(Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-07-01)
A growing body of evidence suggests that vocationally focused programs of study substantially improve high-school completion and longer-run economic success. However, the corresponding recommendations to expand vocational ...