African Americans suffer disproportionately high rates of maternal and infant death in part as a result of the stress caused by institutional racism and sexism, an issue brief from the Center for American Progress finds. Based on a literature review, the brief, Exploring African Americans' High Maternal and Infant Death Rates (HTML, 13 pages,...

The nascent field of climate adaptation in the United States is not yet equal to the task, or evolving quickly or deliberately enough, to manage worsening climate threats, a report from the Kresge Foundation finds. Based on interviews, surveys, and a literature review, the report, Rising to the Challenge, Together (106 pages, PDF), found that...

Schools are not adequately teaching the history of slavery in the United States and the impact it continues to have on race relations, a report from the Southern Poverty Law Center finds. Based on a survey of high school seniors and social studies teachers, as well as an analysis of fifteen state standards and ten widely used U.S. history books,...

Realizing the benefits of collaboratively designed online college courses and teaching resources requires significant support from participating institutions and a backbone organization, a report from Ithaka S+R finds. The report, Faculty Collaboration and Technology in the Liberal Arts: Lessons From a Teagle Grant Program (14 pages, PDF),...

After a decade of increases under the Bush and Obama administrations, changes to and proposed funding cuts for U.S. global health policy under the Trump administration will have significant implications for global health and development, an issue brief from the Kaiser Family Foundation finds. Based on the January 2018 Kaiser Health Tracking Poll...

Americans' acceptance of and comfort with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals fell in 2017, a report from LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD finds. The report, Accelerating Acceptance 2018 (executive summary, 3 pages, PDF), found that for the first time since GLAAD began commissioning Harris to poll on the issue in 2014, the...

Educators' home visits with their students' families can help both educators and parents change their behaviors in ways that support student achievement, a report from Parent Teacher Home Visits (PTHV) finds. Funded by the Flamboyan, W.K. Kellogg, and Stuart foundations and the National Education Association, the report, Mindset Shifts and Parent...

While criminal justice reforms have helped reduce the total number of people incarcerated in state prisons since 2009, women's prison populations in some states have increased so much as to cancel out any reduction in male prison populations, a report from the Prison Policy Initiative finds. Based on data from all fifty states going back to 1978,...

The Kresge Foundation's decision to focus its arts and culture program on creative placemaking required not only agility but a sea change in its approach to grantmaking, a report from the foundation finds. The first in a series of studies focused on creative placemaking, the report, The Kresge Foundation Arts & Culture Program: The First...

While just over half (53 percent) of college students believe their course of study will lead to a good job, only about a third are confident they will graduate with the skills and knowledge to be successful in the job market (34 percent) or the workplace (36 percent), a survey from the Strada Education Network and Gallup finds. Based on...

More than a third of Asian Americans report having been subjected to racial or ethnic slurs (11 percent) and negative assumptions or insensitive or offensive comments about their race/ethnicity, a survey by National Public Radio, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation finds. According to the report,...

More than sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education ruled segregation in public education to be unconstitutional, the U.S. education system remains profoundly unequal, a report from the United States Commission on Civil Rights finds. According to the report, Public Education Funding Inequity in an Era of Increasing Concentration of Poverty...

The path to Ireland's 2015 referendum to legalize same-sex marriage required forming a consensus among the LGBTQ community, bringing in technical expertise as well as lived experience, and forging a simple message that resonated with a large part of the electorate, a case study from Atlantic Philanthropies, which funded major LGBTQ organizations...

Federal funding to support a basic level of preparedness for public health emergencies has been cut by more than half since 2002, with only nineteen states and the District of Columbia maintaining or increasing public health funding commitments in fiscal year 2016-17, a report from the Trust for America’s Health finds. The annual report, Ready...