Students' grades are important mechanisms for advancement and success in life. Grades are criteria for college admission and academic awards, and they undoubtedly influence the encouragement and advice students receive ...

This research note presents data on the replication of a carefully planned intervention to increase the commitment of department chairs in the physical sciences to the hiring and career advancement of women. Three separate ...

Surveys given to participants in five Transformational Resilience Leaders Self-Care workshops in 2014 show an extremely positive response from participants especially in terms of how much they learned and the usefulness ...

The project will investigate the relative influence of school size, community type, and school climate on students’ achievement. The results will be relevant to policymakers concerned with enhancing student achievement and ...

Climate disruption is a profoundly moral issue. The consequences of uncontrolled climate disruption reek socioeconomic and ecological devastation and the decisions about how to respond to the crisis will ultimately be based ...

This paper offers the first birth-cohort test of the Wilson-Willis model of black-white differences in nonmarital childbearing. Cohort data are uniquely suited to the model, and unlike prior evidence, support the power ...

In a recent book, Anthony Biglan describes how strong social research can be used to build a compassionate and more caring society that promotes the well-being of all. This article asserts that a strong educational system ...

This project will examine the ability of human capital and internal labor market theories to account for sex inequities in the education profession. The project will also examine the impact of the women's movement and ...

Today I want to tell you about work that I, and my colleague Robert O’Brien, have done on lethal violence. We have focused on violence directed toward others, homicide, and violence directed toward one’s self, suicide. ...

In November 2015 COACh sponsored a Women in Science Summit at Argonne National Laboratory that brought together 29 women scientists from 14/17 laboratories. At the end of the summit a short questionnaire was distributed ...