Noteworthy new products of the Congressional Research Service that have not been made readily available to the public include the following (all pdf).
“Defense: FY2008 Authorization and Appropriations,” updated September 17, 2007.
“Presidential Claims of Executive Privilege: History, Law, Practice and Recent Developments,” updated September 17, 2007.
“Arms Sales: Congressional Review Process,” updated September 12, 2007.
“Afghanistan: Post-War Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy,” updated September 10, 2007.
“Extraterritorial Application of American Criminal Law,” updated September 10, 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.