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From Vision to Practice
Topics Availability: Non-RAND Year: 2026 Pages: 9 Document Number: EP-71532 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.
From Support to Priority
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Everyone wants kids to learn civics. No one wants the backlash.
Opinion By: Lisa Chu Date: August 25, 2026 Share post: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Against the backdrop of America’s 250th birthday, civics education is top of mind. Politicians on both sides invoke it. School boards pass resolutions about it. State legislatures rewrite the standards for it.
A Mile Wide, an Inch Deep
Topics Availability: Non-RAND Year: 2026 Pages: 9 Document Number: EP-71411 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.
AI Use in Schools Is Quickly Increasing but Guidance Lags Behind
This research was conducted within RAND Education and Labor in partnership with the Center on Reinventing Public Education and the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, and funded by gifts from RAND supporters and income from operations. This publication is part of the RAND research report series. Research reports present research findings and objective analysis that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors.
What Counts as Civics?
Topics Availability: Non-RAND Year: 2025 Pages: 20 Document Number: EP-71054 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. RAND's publications do not necessarily reflect the opinions of its research clients and sponsors.
Chronic Absenteeism Still a Struggle in 2024-2025
Key Findings Chronic absenteeism in the 2024–2025 school year remained above prepandemic levels. In roughly half of urban school districts, more than 30 percent of students were chronically absent—a far higher share of students than in rural or suburban school districts. One-quarter of youths in K–12 districts do not think being chronically absent from school is a problem. Youths’ most commonly reported reason for missing school was sickness.
Your donation will help us produce journalism like this. Please give today. One California teacher used an artificial intelligence tutor to support students below grade level. Another used AI to create lesson plans. A third tried the technology for sorting students into small groups. AI has the potential to address many fundamental barriers in education — if it’s implemented effectively.
Opinion: What California Teachers Are Trying, Building, and Learning with AI
One California teacher used an artificial intelligence tutor to support students below grade level. Another used AI to create lesson plans. A third tried the technology for sorting students into small groups. AI has the potential to address many fundamental barriers in education — if it’s implemented effectively.
What California Teachers Are Trying, Building, and Learning with AI Original
Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter One California teacher used an artificial intelligence tutor to support students below grade level. Another used AI to create lesson plans. A third tried the technology for sorting students into small groups. AI has the potential to address many fundamental barriers in education — if it’s implemented effectively.
Effect of switching from intermittently scanned to real‐time continuous glucose monitoring on glycaemic outcomes in adults with type 1 diabetes: A real‐world, Canadian retrospective study - Chu - Diabetic Medicine - Wiley Online Library
What is already known? Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) improves glycaemia in people living with diabetes. Recent studies showed further glycaemic improvement after switching from intermittently scanned CGM (isCGM) to real-time CGM (rtCGM). The real-world effectiveness of switching from isCGM to rtCGM in a Canadian population is underreported. What this study has found?
Chronic absenteeism: Addressing the cultural shifts behind a new normal
Almost 20% of students are now absent at least 10% of the time, according to our new research. More than that, this new era of chronic absenteeism may be in part the result of a cultural shift, meaning that current intervention strategies won’t work to get all kids back in school. To address the new causes of chronic absenteeism, we need new strategies—which we explore at the end of this commentary.
Districts Try with Limited Success to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism
Key Findings About one in ten districts reported chronic absenteeism levels of 30 percent or more and another two in ten districts reported rates between 20 and 30 percent in the 2023–2024 school year. Although high, these rates were lower than the pandemic peak. In the 2023–2024 school year, nearly all districts (93 percent) tried at least one approach to combat chronic absenteeism.
Lisa Chu: Building a National Biomanufacturing Training Centre in British Columbia
This column was originally published in Life Sciences Magazine. Read the full digital edition here. The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) and Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL) are partnering to create the National Biomanufacturing Training Centre (NBTC), a state-of-the-art training facility located on the grounds of the BCIT Aerospace Technology Campus in Richmond.
English Second Language Classes in Dounda Hall
UW-Platteville offers ESL, English as a Second Language, classes Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6-8pm free for community members and students. Those who teach these courses are usually volunteers. I first became introduced to these classes in Spring 2022 through one of Dr. Yuanyuan Hu’s classes, Second Language Acquisition. One of my classmates, Justice Corpora, was teaching the two-hour class for the new Afghani refugees, and my curiosity got the better of me.
My Exponent Infiltration
How the Exponent works and what to do to fit in Lisa Chu, General Reporter I gladly present my notes on the Exponent after my months-long investigation. I am a graduating senior with a double major in English-Professional Writing and English-Literature and a minor in TESOL. I infiltrated the Exponent as one of three interns this semester.
Guardian Angels of the NY Subway
The Guardian Angels are a non-profit, volunteer-based organization created to keep the New York Subway system safe for residents. They are identified by the “red beret and white t-shirts or red jackets with the Guardian Angels logo of an eye inside a pyramid on a winged shield,” Rare Historical Photos states. The group first appeared in the New York subways in 1979 after the crime rate in the subway system was increasingly becoming more dangerous for residents.
Movie Review: Wakanda Forever
The second Black Panther movie revolved around T’Challa’s death and how Wakanda carries on after his legacy. The movie was heavily laced with tributes to the late Chadwick Boseman, who played T’Challa in the first Black Panther movie. Boseman died on Aug. 28, 2020 during the filming of the second movie. Since the heart-shaped herb that initiated the Black Panther powers were all destroyed by Erik Killmonger in the first movie, Wakanda was left without any way to reproduce a Black Panther.
LGBTQ+ Pride at Rainbow Rave Conference
The annual Rainbow Rave conference and drag show was held on Saturday Nov. 19. The event was sponsored by the History Club, Alliance, History Department, Doyle Center and Gay Studies Program. The morning was dedicated to the conference from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Doudna Hall, and the drag show was held in the evening from 7:30 to 10:30pm in Ullsvik Hall.
National ABC President, CEO Visited Campus
Special guest speaker Michael Bellaman, Associated Builders and Contractors National president and CEO, gave a talk in the Lundeen Hall from 6-7 p.m. on Nov. 9. The talk was initially scheduled to last from 6-7:30 p.m. However, the speaker was able to deliver his message and even hold a discussion with students in just under an hour. Bellaman’s journey up through the corporate ladder at ABC began at a golf outing.
Helios Program Implemented on Campus
Lisa Chu , General Reporter The Helios Program for Integrated Liberal Arts on campus is co-directed by Dr. Amanda Tucker, Professor of English and Director of General Education, and Dr. Katie Kalish, Professor of English and Director of First Year Writing.
Multicultural Affairs Announces Affinity Housing
The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs has recently been implementing more opportunities and accommodations for students of color on campus including two support groups and a new housing project called Affinity Housing, which will be a living space for students of color. This is to connect with each other and build a sense of community.
Review of Disappointing Movie “Smile”
“Smile” (2022) is a supernatural horror movie directed by Parker Finn as his feature directorial debut. It is based on his short film “Laura Hasn’t Slept” (2020), which can be treated as a sort of prequel to “Smile” and features the same lead actor and character. The movie follows Rose Cotter, a psychiatrist, who is assigned to treat Laura Weaver after she witnesses the gruesome suicide of her professor.
Gamma Phi Beta Organizes Donation Drive
Gamma Phi Beta collaborated with The Red Basket Project in a donation drive for feminine hygiene products in Heritage Hall from11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Oct. 17 through Oct. 21. TRBP addresses the global issue of “period poverty,” meaning that feminine hygiene products are inaccessible to many women and girls due to their price. The cost of having a period over a lifetime varies drastically depending on multiple factors, including preferred products, medication and replacement garments.
Poet Danez Smith Performs at UW-Platteville
As part of the Helios Program Speaker Series, award-winning poet and performer Danez Smith visited UW-Platteville in the Lundeen Lecture Hall in Doudna on Oct. 18 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Smith earned their bachelor’sfrom UW-Madison as a First Wave Urban Arts Scholar. Smith is a black, queer, non-binary and poz (HIV positive) poet who uses their work to contexualize past political and moral issues in order to connect to an audience on a personal level for topics that are difficult to think about.
UW-Platteville 2022 Alumni Awards Ceremony
The UW-Platteville 2022 Alumni Awards Ceremony took place in Brodbeck Concert Hall on Oct. 14, celebrating important figures in the College of Business, Industry, Life Sciences and Agriculture; the College of Liberal Arts and Education; the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Science; and the Alumni Association. Dr. Chuck Steiner, Interim Dean, presented the awards for BILSA.
Classic Cars at AEC Annual Car Show
The Automotive Enthusiast Club held its annual car show in the A&W parking lot on Oct. 16. Approximately 115 vehicles entered this season’s car show. The club has been holding a car show for the past 10 years. Along with checking out the project cars, pristine classics and custom beauties that gathered in the A&W parking lot, visitors voted for their favorite car in nine categories: New School Car, New School Truck, Classic Car, Classic Truck, Euro, JDM/Asian, Sport Bike, Cruiser Bike and Sh!tbox.
How 100 large and urban districts are attracting and retaining staff
The 2022-2023 school year’s staff shortages have dominated back-to-school conversations and gained the attention of the Biden-Harris administration. While educator shortages existed before the pandemic, this year’s recruitment challenges have been marked by increased teacher stress and burnout, additional positions to fill, enrollment declines in teacher-training programs, and competition from other job sectors.
Dr. Scott Ringgenberg Obituary
On Thursday July 21, 2022, Dr. Scott Ringgenberg passed away. He was a professor at the UW-Platteville for 22 years, and was the Department Chair of Health and Human Performance for the past five years. One of the most memorable contributions from Dr. Scott Ringgenberg was the ropes course that he developed in the Pioneer Activity Center. The ropes course has been the center of many HHP lessons.
Dr. David Van Buren Obituary
Retired professor had lasting influence Lisa Chu, General Reporter Professor Emeritus David Van Buren passed away on August 19, 2022.His illustrious career and involvement with the UW-Platteville began in the Criminal Justice Department. However, his influence and passion were widespread throughout all disciplines, especially the liberal arts. Even after his retirement, Dr. Van Buren continued to have deep connections and an everlasting impact on the workings of the university.
Streetlights Turn Purple in Milwaukee
People who have driven through the Milwaukee area recently may have noticed the purple-tinted streetlights lining I-94 or I-43. A significant number of streetlights on the highway now have a purple tinge, especially in the southeast region of Wisconsin.
Weighted Student Funding and Outcomes: Implementation in 18 School Districts
Over the last 20 years an increasing number of districts have implemented weighted student funding (WSF) policies that distribute resources to schools in ways that more accurately reflect the level students may require and provide principals with expanded flexibility in the use of funds. This study uses an event study model to examine whether student academic performance trends for a sample of 18 districts between 2009 and 2016 outpaced those in districts that did not implement WSF.
Analysis: Many Districts Doing Less This Summer to Make Up for Lost Learning
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. Despite national attention on bolstering summer school options for students who lost learning time during the pandemic, most large districts have not expanded or improved their 2022 summer programming, according to a review by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Investigating resilience and its association with stress, anthropometrics, and metabolic health in adolescents with obesity: a pilot study
ABSTRACT The increasing prevalence of children with obesity has contributed to a higher risk of developing cardiometabolic comorbidities. Adversity and chronic stress are negatively linked to cardiometabolic outcomes, and resilience is positively associated with improved outcomes. However, whether resilience is protective against metabolic disturbances preceding disease presentation is less understood.
Analysis: Data From 100 Large Urban Districts Show Half Facing Shortages in Key Positions. Fixing That Will Mean Rethinking Teaching & Working in Schools
Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism. In 2020-21, Albuquerque Public Schools saw an 85 percent increase in school staff retirements from the year prior. This August, it opened the school year with 300 unfilled teaching positions, and by October, its superintendent described districtwide shortages “in schools and offices, kitchens and maintenance shops.
Learning Pods’ Lessons For Schools About Supporting Effective Teacher-Student Relationships
Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. When schools closed down last spring, some parents and educators responded by forming “pandemic pods,” or small groups of students who came together outside of school to learn during the pandemic.
Analysis: Many Kindergartners Aren’t Showing Up as Schools Reopen in Person. How Some Large Urban Districts Are Trying to Re-engage Families
Center on Reinventing Public Education Get essential education news and commentary delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. While most schools are back in person this spring, they continue to grapple with lagging enrollment. Pre-K and kindergarten have been hit especially hard. California’s missing kindergartners, for example, are driving the state’s largest K-12 enrollment drop in 20 years.
Analysis: School Districts Are Slow to Communicate What Will Happen After the School Year Ends. Here Are 4 Areas to Watch
A version of this essay appeared on the Center on Reinventing Public Education blog. The end of an unusual school year is on the horizon, yet few districts have provided details on what, if any, summer learning opportunities their students will have. Summer school is typically used to make up missed credits, provide enrichment or give working families much-needed child care. This year, there are new, urgent needs.
Early weight loss in adolescents following bariatric surgery predicts weight loss at 12 and 24 months
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Measuring serum melatonin in postmenopausal women: Implications for epidemiologic studies and breast cancer studies
Circulating melatonin is a good candidate biomarker for studies of circadian rhythms and circadian disruption. However, epidemiologic studies on circulating melatonin are limited because melatonin is secreted at night, yet most epidemiologic studies collect blood during the day when melatonin levels are very low, and assays are lacking that are ultrasensitive to detect low levels of melatonin reliably.
The Music Within Us
You can be both organized and cluttered at the same time. Have you ever thought about that? A friend sent me a link to an article discussing the difference between organization and uncluttering . It arrived in my life at a time when I was open to receiving an "aha" moment. Even though I have found a place to store and/or organize many items in my home, I have noticed that so many of these items are ones I don't need or love anymore. At one time, they held an important place in my life.
What doctors can learn from artists and entrepreneurs
Since leaving medicine, I’ve been an entrepreneur and an independent artist. They are similar pursuits, and both have taught me about the experience of living in creative rather than reactive mode. How do you know if you’re living in reactive mode? If you define and measure yourself based on external circumstances, and you believe you really are limited by what’s happening outside yourself, you are in reactive mode.
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