School Climate and Student Wellbeing: What Research Shows About the Learning Environment
School climate encompasses the quality and character of school life. Research shows it is among the strongest predictors of student outcomes, both aca...
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Understanding Trauma: More Than What Happened to You
Trauma is widely discussed and frequently misunderstood. A clearer picture of what it is, how it works, and what recovery actually involves is essenti...
Immigration Policy and Public Health: What the Evidence Shows
Immigrants make up a substantial share of the US population and healthcare workforce. Policy decisions affecting immigrants have direct public health ...
Food Insecurity on College Campuses: Scope, Causes, and What Institutions Can Do
Research has documented that substantial numbers of college students face food insecurity. Understanding the scope and causes of the problem is essent...
Volunteer Management: The Underinvested Infrastructure of Civil Society
Volunteers are the largest human resource in the nonprofit sector. Most organizations manage them with minimal training and few systems, leaving signi...
Personality Psychology: What the Big Five Tells Us and Its Limits
The Big Five personality framework is the dominant model in personality research. Understanding what it measures, what it predicts, and where it falls...
Behavioral Health Integration: Why Primary Care Is the New Frontier
Most mental health treatment happens in primary care settings, by providers who often lack adequate training and systems that weren't designed fo...
The For-Profit College Sector: What Research Shows About Outcomes and Accountability
For-profit colleges have faced significant scrutiny. The evidence on student outcomes, debt, and institutional accountability shapes ongoing policy de...
First Generation College Students: What Institutions Owe Them
First generation students navigate college without inherited knowledge of how it works. Institutions that treat this as an individual student's p...
HIV Prevention Research: What Studies Show About PrEP, Testing, and Persistent Disparities
HIV prevention has been transformed by pre-exposure prophylaxis. Research on PrEP effectiveness, testing barriers, and why disparities persist despite...