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      People Person: The Story of Sociologist Marta Tienda

      Diane O'Connell,National Academy of Sciences

      Marta Tienda sees life stories in numbers. She is a sociologist, a scientist who studies human society. Numbers are the tools she uses to uncover information about people and their…

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      Bone Detective: The Story of Forensic Anthropologist Diane France

      Lorraine Jean Hopping,National Academy of Sciences

      Diane France is a forensic anthropologist, a bone detective. She has the science skills and know-how to examine bones for clues to a mystery: Who was this person and how…

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      Sharing Research Data to Improve Public Health in Africa: A Workshop Summary

      National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Population

      Sharing research data on public health issues can promote expanded scientific inquiry and has the potential to advance improvements in public health. Although sharing data is the norm in some…

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      International Education and Foreign Languages: Keys to Securing America’s Future

      Committee to Review the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays International Education Programs,National Research Council,National Academy of Sciences

      Reviews the Department of Education’s Title VI and Fulbright-Hays Programs, which provide higher education funding for international education and foreign language programs. This book also examines the federal government’s proposal…

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      Improving Schooling for Language Minority Children: A Research Agenda

      Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited-English-Proficient and Bilingual Students,National Research Council and Institute of Medicine,National Academy of Sciences

      How do we effectively teach children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken? This book focuses on this central question, striving toward the construction of a…

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      Ethical Considerations for Research on Housing-Related Health Hazards Involving Children

      Committee on Ethical Issues in Housing-Related Health Hazard Research Involving Children, Youth, and Families,National Academy of Sciences

      Explores the ethical issues posed when conducting research designed to identify, understand, or ameliorate housing-related health hazards among children. Such research involves children as subjects and is conducted in the…

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