Hotspot Policing: Results from Colombia – The Lunch @ DC with Don Green
How do we deter crime? Hotspot policing, or when police spend increased time in higher-crime areas, has become one of the most common approaches to crime reduction. But is it effective or does it...
View ArticleSupporting Educational Achievement with Innovations Outside the Classroom:...
Elementary school students in the U.S. spend less than 25 percent of their waking hours in school over the course of a year. Coupled with the large influence of outside-of-school factors in shaping...
View ArticleHow Evidence Can Transform the Fight Against Poverty – The Lunch @ DC with...
How Evidence Can Transform the Fight Against Poverty Despite spending billions of dollars fighting poverty in America, we know very little about the effectiveness of programs that target those most in...
View ArticleRedirect: Changing People’s Behavior by Editing their Stories: The Lunch @ DC...
In the past few years a new way of changing people’s behavior has been discovered: Helping them to revise the stories they tell about themselves and their social environment. I will describe this...
View ArticleResearch Transparency: Finding Effective Solutions – The Lunch @ DC with...
Transparency and reproducibility are core principles of research and not (yet) part of daily practice. Failures of transparency and reproducibility retard progress on creating knowledge. The Center for...
View ArticleData, Delusion & the American Classroom – The Lunch @ DC
Data, Delusion & the American Classroom When it comes to education, intuition is a busted compass. We just can’t trust our gut when it comes to judging a school, a policy reform or a teacher. Why...
View Article14th Annual AERA Brown Lecture In Education Research With Alfredo J. Artiles
Alfredo J. Artiles has been selected to present the 2017 Brown Lecture. The Annual Brown Lecture in Education Research is designed to feature the important role of research in advancing understanding...
View ArticleNational Research Summit on Care, Services and Supports for Persons with...
The National Research Summit on Care, Services, and Supports for Persons with Dementia and Their Caregivers is a two-day meeting sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the...
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