Bullying in a Networked Era: A Literature Review
The suicide of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi in September 2010 brought increased national attention to the issues of cyberbullying and bias-based bullying. A number of states and localities...
View ArticlePreschool, Head Start and early education policies: Research review
President Obama’s call in his 2013 State of the Union address for making high-quality preschool available for all children has prompted many in the news media to probe the existing research on...
View ArticleUniversity Based Service Learning: Relating Mentor Experiences to Issues of...
Most colleges have instituted a service learning requirement that connects students with community groups or schools. The benefits for those groups being served can vary widely, of course, depending on...
View ArticleThe (Non)Violent World of YouTube: Content Trends in Web Video
The user-generated content posted to YouTube and other video-sharing sites is sometimes criticized for its shallowness. But according to a 2012 study in the Journal of Communication, one charge that...
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Laws and Policies that Attempt to Reduce Firearm Violence: Research Review...
Nearly 13,000 homicides were committed with weapons — 8,775 with firearms — in the United States in 2010, the latest year of available FBI data. Of the murders where firearm types were identified,...
View ArticleTeacher performance, compensation and measurement: Research roundup
One of the core questions at issue in the September 2012 teachers’ strike in Chicago was how to properly and fairly measure teacher performance and structure personnel and compensation plans...
View ArticlePew Internet: Teens and Technology 2013
How we communicate has changed rapidly over the last few years, and some of the greatest changes in behavior have been seen among teenagers, who are often “early adopters” of technologies. New...
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Double Majors: Influences, Identities and Impacts
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the average cost of a four-year university degree in the U.S. has increased nearly 250% since 1980. While college graduates still earn more...
View ArticleThe contested field of violent video games: Research roundup
Since the December 2012 school shooting in Newtown, Conn., a variety of legal, policy and moral issues have been debated in the news media, including ones relating to video games and their possible...
View ArticleUnintended Pregnancy and Taxpayer Spending
In 2006, the median rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States was 51 per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, with the rates in most states varying between 40 and 65 per 1,000 women. Although much of...
View ArticleMemory Tests Reduce Mind Wandering and Improve Learning of Online Lectures
The rise of online education and massive open online courses, or MOOCs, is bringing about a fundamental reassessment of how learning should be conducted in a digital age, forcing institutions to...
View ArticleCollege Mission and Diversity Statements: What They Do and Do Not Say
U.S. colleges have steadily seen more racial minorities walk through their gates in recent decades. As the National Center for Education Statistics notes, over the period 1976 to 2010 Hispanics rose...
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Dog bites and canine-related injuries: Research review
As the weather warms and more children play outside, the unfortunate but predictable phenomenon of dog bites and attacks inevitably comes back into the news. Conditioned to find the proverbial “man...
View ArticleThe Missing ‘One-Offs’: The Hidden Supply of High Achieving, Low Income Students
Many of the most selective colleges in the United States have policies that now make tuition free or very inexpensive for low-income students. This includes Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford....
View ArticleSex Differences in Mathematics and Reading Achievement Are Inversely Related
Gender inequality is a fact around the globe. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, women occupy nearly half of all U.S. jobs, yet represent less than 25% of those in science, technology,...
View ArticlePrivacy Protection Strategies on Facebook
Users of social networking sites are learning to strike a balance between personal privacy and public sharing, recent studies suggest. The extent to which personal attributes can be gleaned from such...
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Online information, credibility and the “Google generation”: Research review,...
It’s been 15 years since Google was incorporated as a company, yet the public still seems to be feeling its way toward a more sophisticated understanding of how to harness online search technology to...
View ArticleInvesting in Children: Changes in Parental Spending on Children
Americans have been shifting the way they approach parenting and family dynamics over the past few decades. Parents are having fewer children, but they are also spending more “intensive” time with...
View ArticlePerformance-enhancing drugs in athletics: Research roundup
Performance-enhancing drugs have a long history in sports, of course, but pharmacological research has lead to a surge in the number of substances available, each with its own potential for misuse....
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Urs Gasser of Harvard’s Berkman Center on youth, digital media and tech...
Urs Gasser is the Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. In 2008, he and John Palfrey published the...
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