@BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Aarion Franklin and Elizabeth Bechtel and Emily Webb and Janai Williams and Amy Wiles", title = "Inclusive Public Participation in Transit Decision-Making", abstract = "Each transit agency must integrate into its public participation plan the strategies, procedures, and outcomes that will ensure participation of their entire communities, including people of color, people with disabilities, and low-income populations, among others, when dealing with its transportation planning issues. This requirement is established under federal laws and regulations.\nThe TRB Transit Cooperative Research Program's TCRP Synthesis 170: Inclusive Public Participation in Transit Decision-Making documents current, effective, ongoing public participation mechanisms resulting in, and instilling participation from, communities of color; communities with limited English-language proficiency and low-income populations; and people with disabilities.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26940/inclusive-public-participation-in-transit-decision-making", year = 2023, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Who Are These People?: A Guide for Child Care Professionals", abstract = "As children spend an increasing portion of their day outside the home, it has become even more important that they are consistently exposed to positive and productive experiences, especially during their formative years. High-quality care is no longer a plus\u2014it's a must. \nWith the goal of making daily caregiving easier and more enjoyable, the National Academies and the McCormick Tribune Foundation have partnered to produce this useful and informative booklet. Based on key findings described in two recent reports on early childhood development and education from the National Academies\u2014From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development and Eager to Learn: Educating Our Preschoolers\u2014it offers helpful suggestions and practical guidance to child care providers, educators, and even interested parents. \nConcentrating specifically on infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, Who Are These People?: A Guide for Child Care Professionals provides information and inspiration to everyone who interacts with young children on a regular basis. \nCopies are available free of charge in English or Spanish. Get yours today by phoning Customer Service toll free at 1-800-624-6242.\n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10696/who-are-these-people-a-guide-for-child-care-professionals", year = 2003, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP editor = "Diane August and Kenji Hakuta", title = "Educating Language-Minority Children", isbn = "978-0-309-06414-9", abstract = "In the past 30 years, a large and growing number of students in U.S. schools have come from homes in which the language background is other than English. These students present unique challenges for America's education system.\nBased on Improving Schooling for Language-Minority Children, a comprehensive study published in 1997, this book summarizes for teachers and education policymakers what has been learned over the past three decades about educating such students. It discusses a broad range of educational issues: how students learn a second language; how reading and writing skills develop in the first and second languages; how information on specific subjects (for example, biology) is stored and learned and the implications for second-language learners; how social and motivational factors affect learning for English-language learners; how the English proficiency and subject matter knowledge of English-language learners are assessed; and what is known about the attributes of effective schools and classrooms that serve English-language learners.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6025/educating-language-minority-children", year = 1998, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Survey Summary: Students and Scholars From the People's Republic of China in the United States, August 1981", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/19688/survey-summary-students-and-scholars-from-the-peoples-republic-of", year = 1981, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Language and Machines: Computers in Translation and Linguistics", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/20813/language-and-machines-computers-in-translation-and-linguistics", year = 1966, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Lauress L. Wise and Robert M. Hauser and Karen J. Mitchell and Michael J. Feuer", title = "Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests: Phase 1", isbn = "978-0-309-07696-8", abstract = "In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that would provide reliable information about student performance at two key points in their educational careers. According to the U.S. Department of Education, the Voluntary National Tests (VNT) would create a catalyst for continued school improvement by focusing parental and community-wide attention on achievement and would become new tools to hold school systems accountable for their students' performance. The National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) has responsibility for development of the VNT. Congress recognized that a testing program of the scale and magnitude of the VNT initiative raises many important technical questions and requires quality control throughout development and implementation. In P.L. 105-78, Congress called on the National Research Council (NRC) to evaluate a series of technical issues pertaining to the validity of test items, the validity of proposed links between the VNT and the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), plans for the accommodation and inclusion of students with disabilities and English-language learners, plans for reporting test information to parents and the public, and potential uses of the tests. This report covers phase 1 of the evaluation (November 1997-July 1998) and focuses on three principal issues: test specifications and frameworks; preliminary evidence of the quality of test items; and plans for the pilot and field test studies, for inclusion and accommodation, and for reporting VNT results.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6324/evaluation-of-the-voluntary-national-tests-phase-1", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Michael M. Meyer and Stephen E. Fienberg", title = "Assessing Evaluation Studies: The Case of Bilingual Education Strategies", isbn = "978-0-309-04728-9", abstract = "Bilingual education has long been the subject of major disagreements in this country. This book provides a detailed critique of the two largest studies of U.S. bilingual education programs. It examines the goals of the studies and what can be learned from them. In addition, using these studies as cases, this book provides guidelines on how to plan large evaluation studies to achieve useful answers to major policy questions about education.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2014/assessing-evaluation-studies-the-case-of-bilingual-education-strategies", year = 1992, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Language and Machines: Computers in Translation and Linguistics", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9547/language-and-machines-computers-in-translation-and-linguistics", year = 1966, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Alexandra Beatty", title = "Common Standards for K-12 Education?: Considering the Evidence: Summary of a Workshop Series", isbn = "978-0-309-12524-6", abstract = "Standards-based accountability has become a central feature of the public education system in each state and is a theme of national discussions about how achievement for all students can be improved and achievement gaps narrowed. Questions remain, however, about the implementation of standards and accountability systems and about whether their potential benefits have been fully realized. Each of the 50 states has adopted its own set of standards, and though there is overlap among them, there is also wide variation in the ways states have devised and implemented their systems. This variety may have both advantages and disadvantages, but it nevertheless raises a fundamental question: Is the establishment of common K-12 academic standards, which states could voluntarily adopt, the logical next step for standards-based reform?\n\nThe goal of this book is not to answer the policy question of whether or not common standards would be a good idea. Rather, the book provides an objective look at the available evidence regarding the ways in which standards are currently functioning, the strategies that might be used to pursue common standards, and the issues that doing so might present. \n", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12462/common-standards-for-k-12-education-considering-the-evidence-summary", year = 2008, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Transit Agency Compliance with Title VI: Limited English Proficiency Requirements", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Research Results Digest 97: Transit Agency Compliance with Title VI: Limited English Proficiency Requirements explores the legal issues associated with transit operators\u2019 limited English proficiency (LEP) compliance efforts. The digest is designed to serve as a single source of information concerning the development and current status of transit LEP implementation efforts by state and local legislative and operational bodies.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14476/transit-agency-compliance-with-title-vi-limited-english-proficiency-requirements", year = 2011, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Barry Edmonston", title = "Statistics on U.S. Immigration: An Assessment of Data Needs for Future Research", isbn = "978-0-309-05275-7", abstract = "The growing importance of immigration in the United States today prompted this examination of the adequacy of U.S. immigration data. This volume summarizes data needs in four areas: immigration trends, assimilation and impacts, labor force issues, and family and social networks. It includes recommendations on additional sources for the data needed for program and research purposes, and new questions and refinements of questions within existing data sources to improve the understanding of immigration and immigrant trends.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4942/statistics-on-us-immigration-an-assessment-of-data-needs-for", year = 1996, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Memoir: Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/27456/memoir-upon-the-formation-of-a-deaf-variety-of-the", year = 1883, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP title = "Improving Social Science in the Former Soviet Union: The U.S. Role", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10465/improving-social-science-in-the-former-soviet-union-the-us", year = 1992, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "Lauress L. Wise and Richard J. Noeth and Judith A. Koenig", title = "Evaluation of the Voluntary National Tests, Year 2: Final Report", isbn = "978-0-309-06788-1", abstract = "In his 1997 State of the Union address, President Clinton announced a federal initiative to develop tests of 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics that could be administered on a voluntary basis by states and school districts beginning in spring 1999. The principal purpose of the Voluntary National Tests (VNT) is to provide parents and teachers with systematic and reliable information about the verbal and quantitative skills that students have achieved at two key points in their educational careers. The U.S. Department of Education anticipated that this information would serve as a catalyst for continued school improvement, by focusing parental and community attention on achievement and by providing an additional tool to hold school systems accountable for their students' performance in relation to nationwide standards.\nShortly after initial development work on the VNT, Congress transferred responsibility for VNT policies, direction, and guidelines from the department to the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB, the governing body for the National Assessment of Educational Progress). Test development activities were to continue, but Congress prohibited pilot and field testing and operational use of the VNT pending further consideration. At the same time, Congress called on the National Research Council (NRC) to assess the VNT development activities. Since the evaluation began, the NRC has issued three reports on VNT development: an interim and final report on the first year's work and an interim report earlier on this second year's work. This final report includes the findings and recommendations from the interim report, modified by new information and analysis, and presents our overall conclusions and recommendations regarding the VNT.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9684/evaluation-of-the-voluntary-national-tests-year-2-final-report", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Erin Hammers Forstag", title = "Taking Stock of Science Standards Implementation: Proceedings of a Virtual Summit", isbn = "978-0-309-68807-9", abstract = "On October 14 and 15, and December 8, 2021, the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual Summit entitled Taking Stock of Science Standards Implementation. Participants explored the landscape of state science standards implementation, identified where there have been successes and challenges, and determined next steps and the resources needed for continuing or re-invigorating implementation efforts. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the event.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26549/taking-stock-of-science-standards-implementation-proceedings-of-a-virtual", year = 2022, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", editor = "M. Susan Burns and Peg Griffin and Catherine E. Snow", title = "Starting Out Right: A Guide to Promoting Children's Reading Success", isbn = "978-0-309-06410-1", abstract = "A devastatingly large number of people in America cannot read as well as they need for success in life. With literacy problems plaguing as many as four in ten children in America, this book discusses how best to help children succeed in reading. This book identifies the most important questions and explores the authoritative answers on the topic of how children can grow into readers, including:\n\n What are the key elements all children need in order to become good readers?\n What can parents and caregivers provide all children so that they are prepared for reading instruction by the time that they get to school?\n What concepts about language and literacy should be included in beginning reading instruction?\n How can we prevent reading difficulties starting with infants and into the early grades?\n What to ask school boards, principals, elected officials, and other policy makers who make decisions regarding early reading instruction.\n\nYou'll find out how to help youngsters build word recognition, avoid comprehension problems, and more\u2014with checklists of specific accomplishments to be expected at different ages: for very young children, for kindergarten students, and for first, second, and third grade students. Included are 55 activities to do with children to help them become successful readers, a list of recommended children's books, and a guide to CD-ROMs and websites.\nGreat strides have been made recently toward identifying the best ways to teach children to read. Starting Out Right provides a wealth of knowledge based on a summary of extensive research. It is a \"must read\" for specialists in primary education as well as parents, pediatricians, child care providers, tutors, literacy advocates, policy makers, and teachers.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6014/starting-out-right-a-guide-to-promoting-childrens-reading-success", year = 1999, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "National Research Council", title = "Saragosa, Texas, Tornado May 22, 1987: An Evaluation of the Warning System", isbn = "978-0-309-04435-6", abstract = "The small community of Saragosa, Texas, was devastated by a violent multiple-vortex tornado on Friday, May 22, 1987. Despite the extensive warning dissemination efforts, which are documented in this book, the overall warning system in Saragosa failed to reach most of the residents in time for them to take effective safety measures.\nThe primary purpose of this book is to combine the information provided by the respondents to a postdisaster survey with the facts surrounding the tornado in order to understand and evaluate the severe weather warning procedures used in Reeves County, Texas, where Saragosa is located.\nThe evaluation of this survey is intended to determine ways of adjusting existing warning systems and better prepare the citizens, public officials, and news media in Reeves County, as well as in every city, county, and township where severe weather threatens lives and property.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/1766/saragosa-texas-tornado-may-22-1987-an-evaluation-of-the", year = 1991, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Mary Vigilante", title = "Economic and Social Sustainability at Airports", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Conference Proceedings on the Web 23: Economic and Social Sustainability at Airports is a compilation of the presentations and a summary of the ensuing discussions at May 7-8, 2018, forum in Washington, D.C.The meeting brought together individuals from airports, airlines, academia, consulting, local and regional government, general sustainability professionals, and others. The forum included sessions on social sustainability, economic sustainability, keynotes on mitigating human trafficking and innovative development at airports, and interactive breakout discussions delving into myriad social and economic sustainability topics.ACRP organized the event as part of its series of convening activities titled \u201cACRP Insight Events.\u201d ACRP Insight Events are forums that foster dialogue among professionals across sectors, institutions, and industries.ACRP Insight Events convene airport industry leaders and subject matter experts in various fields to encourage discussion and promote broader and deeper insight on topics of significance to airport operators. These in-depth, face-to-face gatherings are designed to promote communication and collaboration, foster innovation, and help identify areas of future interest and research, especially for topics of emerging importance.Copies of the slides of presentations made at the form are available online. The literature review prepared for the event is also available online. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25408/economic-and-social-sustainability-at-airports", year = 2019, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", editor = "Mary Vigilante", title = "Economic and Social Sustainability at Airports", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Conference Proceedings on the Web 23: Economic and Social Sustainability at Airports is a compilation of the presentations and a summary of the ensuing discussions at May 7-8, 2018, forum in Washington, D.C.The meeting brought together individuals from airports, airlines, academia, consulting, local and regional government, general sustainability professionals, and others. The forum included sessions on social sustainability, economic sustainability, keynotes on mitigating human trafficking and innovative development at airports, and interactive breakout discussions delving into myriad social and economic sustainability topics.ACRP organized the event as part of its series of convening activities titled \u201cACRP Insight Events.\u201d ACRP Insight Events are forums that foster dialogue among professionals across sectors, institutions, and industries.ACRP Insight Events convene airport industry leaders and subject matter experts in various fields to encourage discussion and promote broader and deeper insight on topics of significance to airport operators. These in-depth, face-to-face gatherings are designed to promote communication and collaboration, foster innovation, and help identify areas of future interest and research, especially for topics of emerging importance.Copies of the slides of presentations made at the form are available online. The literature review prepared for the event is also available online. ", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25597/economic-and-social-sustainability-at-airports", year = 2019, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" } @BOOK{NAP author = "Transportation Research Board and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine", title = "Driver Selection Tests and Measurement", abstract = "TRB\u2019s Commercial Truck and Bus Safety Synthesis Program (CTBSSP) Synthesis 21: Driver Selection Tests and Measurement synthesizes information on the use of tests, measurements, and other assessment methods used by commercial truck and bus companies in the driver selection process. The report also identifies and describes driver selection methods and instruments and their potential usefulness in predicting driver crash risk.", url = "https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14632/driver-selection-tests-and-measurement", year = 2012, publisher = "The National Academies Press", address = "Washington, DC" }