Youth in education research, limiting the growth of the U.S. defense budget, and missed opportunities to aid domestic violence survivors.
Making the invisible epidemic visible Domestic violence is dramatically underreported around the world and in the United States. To shed light on this "invisible epidemic," Rachel Graber and co-authors examine data from a large urban trauma center in Chicago. Important opportunities to provide aid and protection to domestic violence survivors are being missed, they find. | Potential or essential? Youth as partners in education research "Youth-centered research pushes scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from doing research on youth to doing research with youth." Omaer Naeem and Emily Markovich Morris share principles to collaborate with young people on education research and highlight the benefits of doing so. | A strategy for America's defense budget Amid international peril, cutting U.S. defense spending is unrealistic and unwise, Michael O'Hanlon says. Instead, the most sensible path forward is to provide very modest real growth in the defense budget—about 1% a year above inflation for the next two years and perhaps beyond, he contends. | The conclusions and recommendations of any Brookings publication are solely those of its author(s), and do not reflect the views of the Institution, its management, or its other scholars. | |