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Knowledge in Action Efficacy Study
- Project-based learning confronts students with uncertainty. Finally. (Washington Post, Jay Mathews, April 3, 2021)
- Reinventing AP Courses With Rigorous Project-Based Learning (Edutopia video, February 2021, 100k+ views)
Stanford Civic Online Reasoning National Portrait
- You can’t believe everything you read online. Many students don’t seem to know that. (Washington Post, November 2019)
- High school students are unprepared to judge the credibility of information on the internet, according to Stanford researchers (Stanford News, November 2019)
- “Deep Fakes” pose threat in identifying online information. (MSNBC video, December 2019)
Understanding America Study, Education Module
- Schools Are Banning AI. Students Are Using It Anyway. Designing Tomorrow. (March, 2026)
- The Drivers of the Absenteeism Crisis: New Evidence from the Understanding America Study. USC EdPolicyHub. (March, 2006)
- School cellphone bans: Teens open to moderate restrictions, research finds. Chalkbeat (January 2026).
- How Cellphone Bans Have Affected Students’ Lives: What Teens Say Edweek (January 2026).
- Study: 98% of Teens Attend Schools Limiting Cellphones, but Most Still Use Them. The 74 (January 2026).
- AI Is Moving Fast—But School Responses and Parent Opinions Are Not. Center on Reinventing Public Education (November 2025).
- New Parent Research Helps Explain Causes of Post-Pandemic Absenteeism Crisis. FutureEd (September 2025).
- 40 Parents Weigh in on Why Kids Are Missing More School Now Than Before COVID. The 74 (September 2025).
- USC survey shows lack of public support for student protests, Inside Higher Ed (March 2025).
- Agreement_Across_The_Aisle: Schools Should Prepare Students for the Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship. USC Center for Applied Research in Education (February 2025).
- What Do Parents Know about Generative AI in Schools? Center on Reinventing Public Education (January 2025).
- Students with mental health struggles linked to absenteeism and lower grades, showing clear need for more in-school support. The Conversation (August 2024).
- K12 parents’ concerns and preferences. EdWeek (July 2024).
- How school districts can better manage disagreement about difficult topics. EdSource (May 2024).
- School absenteeism has become a big problem but we can do something about it. Forbes (April 2024).
- Parents are not fully aware of, or concerned about, their children’s school attendance. Brookings (March 2024).
- There’s a path to parental support on LGBTQ issues at schools. Santa Monica Daily Press (March 2024).
- Chronic Absenteeism Is a Crisis. Do Parents Get It? EdWeek (March 2024).
- Teachers and students are wary about discussing gender identity, study finds. USA Today (February 2024).
- Deep political divide around race, LGBTQ+ topics in schools, new USC study finds. EdSource (February 2024).
- Survey finds bipartisan support for public schools, wide gaps on LGBTQ, race issues in education. Forbes (February 2024).
- Support for teaching gender identity in schools is split, even among Democrats. New York Times (February 2024).
- How Americans really feel about the teaching of controversial topics in schools.USC Today (February 2024).
- Support for Teaching Gender Identity in School Is Split, Even Among Democrats. The New York Times (February 2024).
- Searching for Common Ground: Widespread Support for Public Schools but Substantial Partisan Divides About Teaching Contested Topics. USC Center for Applied Research in Education (February 2024).
- Kids Should Learn about LGBTQ Issues at School? Chalkbeat (February 2024).
- The “Un-Average”: Not Every Child Bounced Back After COVID. USC Schaeffer (January 2024).
- The reality of COVID-19 learning loss.USC Rossier School of Education (December 2023).
- Many families don’t know how much the pandemic harmed their child’s learning; that’s a problem. EdSource (August 2023).
- Lines Have Been Drawn, A Loud Minority Has been Heard, Now What? Harvard Usable Knowledge (December 2022).
- National Survey Findings Shed Light on Dimensions of Teen Mental Health Concerns. USC Schaeffer (November 2022).
- Most Americans don’t believe young kids should read or learn LGBTQ themes. Hechinger Report (November 2022).
- ‘Channeling the Mama Bear’: How Covid Closures Became Today’s Curriculum Wars. The New York Times (November 2022).
- Deep Partisan Divide Over LGBTQ+ Content in Schools. Yahoo (October 2022).
- Americans divided on LGBTQ representation in high school curriculum. The Hill (October 2022).
- Study: Parents want high schoolers to learn both sides of controversial issues. Spectrum News (October 2022).
- Poll finds sharp partisan divides over teaching LGBTQ issues. Washington Post (October 2022).
- Must battle over civics education? Fordham Institute (October 2022).
- Republicans and Democrats Agree: High Schools Should Teach ‘Controversial’ Issues. Education Week (October 2022).
- Half of Americans Know Little About CRT, What’s Actually Taught in Schools. The 74 (October 2022).
- “Critical race theory” is being weaponised. What’s the fuss about? The Economist (July 2022).
- Both Supply and Demand for COVID-Related Academic and Social Interventions Are Insufficient to Address the Negative Effects of the Pandemic. Urban Institute (June 2022).
- Teens are Divided on Teaching Race, Gender Identity – Like Their Parents. The 74 (February 2022).
- Bogus claim that school closures will doom democrats. The New Republic(January 2022).
- How some families of color remain wary of returning to classrooms as new school year begins Washington Post (September 2021).
- Back to school with the threat of the delta variant. MarketWatch(September 2021)
- America’s history wars. The Economist (July 2021).
- More students of color are expected to return for in-person classes in the fall but reluctance lingers. Washington Post(June 2021).
- What’s behind racial differences in attitudes toward school reopening (and what to do about them) American Enterprise Institute(April 2021).
- What’s at stake in the fight over reopening schools. New Yorker(February 2021).
- California parents continue to disagree on return to school as Covid-19 cases decline. EDsource (March 2021).
- More non-white than white parents prefer remote learning for their children. The Economist(March 2021).
- Parents struggle with a new dilemma: Is it safe to send kids back to school? Los Angeles Times(March 2021).
- This high school reopened two months ago, with no COVID-19 outbreaks? Los Angeles Times (March 2021).
- What’s at stake in the fight over reopening schools. New Yorker (February 2021).
- Rhode Island kept its schools open. New York Times(February 2021).
- Schools in more affluent areas move faster to reopen than those in low-income communities. Los Angeles Times (February 2021).
- Parents are getting the type of instruction they want for their kids. Chalkbeat(February 2021).
- Why reopening schools in minority neighbourhoods is hard. The Economist (January 2021).
- What’s the Likely Impact of COVID-19 on Higher Ed? Inside Higher Ed (August 2020).
- K12 parents’ concerns from the end of April. EdWeek (April 2020).