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A fund offered through Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs will support creative, interdisciplinary research projects, and programs addressing important issues in education.In the second year of this award, the Overdeck Education Innovation Fund will award up to $350,000 for multiple…

Princeton University and the Brookings Institution released “Universal Approaches to Promoting Healthy Development” on May 29.This is an issue of the journal The Future of Children that examines how universal programs offered to all parents in a community — as opposed to programs that target only the families most at risk for…

Reproductive rights are now front and center in the 2020 campaign, as a number of states recently have tried to restrict or regulate abortions in some way. We discussed the wave of abortion bills being passed with Elizabeth M. Armstrong, associate professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow…

A group of researchers at Princeton University will receive funding to work on innovative, cross-disciplinary education research projects over the next two academic years.More than $300,000 was awarded to Anne Catena, Michael Celia, Adam Kapor, Christopher Neilson, Daniel Rubenstein, and Maria Micaela Sviatschi by the Overdeck…

Today, only half of children grow up to earn more than their parents, as opportunities for upward mobility continue to decline. Meanwhile, more than 15 percent of children live in poverty.Understanding what is behind these problems has been a challenge, as each pocket of the United States faces particular struggles. The…