Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include these (all pdf).
“Diplomacy for the 21st Century: Transformational Diplomacy,” August 23, 2007.
“U.S. Foreign Aid to East and South Asia: Selected Recipients,” updated August 22, 2007.
“The Role of National Oil Companies in the International Oil Market,” August 21, 2007.
“The War Crimes Act: Current Issues,” updated July 23, 2007.
“Manipulating Molecules: Federal Support for Nanotechnology Research,” updated August 2, 2007.
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.