Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf).
“Iraqi Civilian, Police, and Security Forces Casualty Statistics,” September 17, 2009.
“Iran’s Nuclear Program: Status,” September 18, 2009.
“Military Recruitment on High School and College Campuses: A Policy and Legal Analysis,” September 22, 2009.
“The Second Amendment and Incorporation: An Overview of Recent Appellate Cases,” September 21, 2009.
“Legal Standing Under the First Amendment’s Establishment Clause,” September 15, 2009.
tudents in the 21st century need strong critical thinking skills like reasoning, questioning, and problem-solving, before they can meaningfully engage with more advanced domains like digital, data, or AI literacy.
When the U.S. government funds the establishment of a platform for testing hundreds of behavioral interventions on a large diverse population, we will start to better understand the interventions that will have an efficient and lasting impact on health behavior.
The grant comes from the Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) to investigate, alongside The British American Security Information Council (BASIC), the associated impact on nuclear stability.
We need to overhaul the standardized testing and score reporting system to be more accessible to all of the end users of standardized tests: educators, students, and their families.