Some noteworthy new (or newly acquired) reports of the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf).
“Homeland Security Department: FY2008 Request for Appropriations,” May 17, 2007.
“U.S.-Funded Assistance Programs in China,” May 18, 2007.
“North Korean Provocative Actions, 1950-2007,” updated April 20, 2007.
“North Korea: Terrorism List Removal?,” updated April 6, 2007.
“The North Korean Economy: Overview and Policy Analysis,” updated April 18, 2007.
“Presidential Directives: Background and Overview,” updated April 23, 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.