School buses do more than just help students get to school—they could impact academic outcomes like test scores and attendance, too. To assess these effects, Sarah Cordes, Christopher Rick, and Amy Ellen Schwartz share findings from their New York City study of children who use school buses to get to school.

Though Europe’s approach to the Ukraine refugee crisis is very different from its approach to the Syrian refugee crisis, there are important lessons to be learned from the latter to ensure that displaced Ukrainians get the help they need, writes Omer Karasapan.