Recent reports of the Congressional Research Service on the 2008 budget appropriation cycle obtained by Secrecy News include the following (all pdf).
“Homeland Security Department: FY2008 Appropriations,” updated July 17, 2007.
“Federal Research and Development Funding: FY2008,” updated July 26, 2007.
“Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies: FY2008 Appropriations,” July 20, 2007.
“Financial Services and General Government (FSGG): FY2008 Appropriations,” updated July 20, 2007.
“Energy and Water Development: FY2008 Appropriations,” updated July 13, 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.