Artificial Intelligence in Education: Early Evidence and Open Questions
Generative AI is rapidly entering education. Early evidence on its effects on learning is mixed, and important questions about implementation, equity,...
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Capacity Building in the Social Sector: What Funders and Nonprofits Get Wrong
Capacity building, improving organizational systems, leadership, and infrastructure, is widely endorsed and systematically underfunded. The gap betw...
The Student Debt Crisis: How We Got Here and What Policy Options Exist
Student debt in the United States has exceeded 1.7 trillion dollars. Understanding how the system produced this outcome is essential for evaluating re...
The Teacher Pipeline Problem: Why Shortages Are Structural, Not Accidental
Teacher shortages are treated as a recruitment problem. The evidence suggests they are primarily a retention problem, and the causes are addressable....
Housing Policy and Public Health: What Stable Housing Does for Wellbeing
Housing stability is one of the most powerful social determinants of health. Policy decisions about housing have direct consequences for health outcom...
Social Anxiety Disorder: Research on Prevalence, Causes, and Effective Treatment
Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common mental health conditions in the United States. Research on what drives it and what works to treat it...
Cognitive Biases and Decision-Making: What Research Shows About How We Actually Think
Behavioral economics and cognitive psychology research has documented systematic patterns in how people deviate from rational decision-making. Underst...
Value-Based Care: The Evidence on Payment Reform in Healthcare
Value-based care models attempt to align financial incentives with patient health outcomes rather than service volume. The evidence on whether they ac...
The Chronic Disease Burden and Why Lifestyle Medicine Is Gaining Ground
Chronic diseases account for the majority of U.S. healthcare spending. A growing body of evidence supports lifestyle interventions as primary treatmen...
Mindfulness Based Interventions: What the Evidence Actually Shows
Mindfulness has moved from contemplative tradition to clinical protocol to consumer product. The research distinguishes meaningful from marginal appli...