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Kindergarten Needs a Revamp to Provide Better Learning Outcomes

In its early days, kindergarten was considered a radical approach to education. The foundation of the kindergarten curriculum included developmentally appropriate practice through hands-on engaging activities designed for the developmental…

09.14.23 | 6 min read
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Environment
Issue Brief
Seeing Through the Haze: How the federal government does (and doesn’t) work to reduce public exposure to wildland fire smoke

Media coverage of wildfire often focuses on the brutality of death and destruction – but alongside these horrific outcomes is the often overlooked and underestimated danger of smoke. This insidious…

09.13.23 | 24 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Buying in Bulk: Electrifying Fleets Across the Country

The Electrification Coalition (EC) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that develops and implements a broad set of strategies to facilitate the widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) to overcome the…

09.11.23 | 15 min read
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Global Risk
Article
Culture Blast at the Kurt Vonnegut Museum

Charlotte Yeung is a Purdue student and New Voices in Nuclear Weapons fellow at FAS. Her multimedia show, Culture Blast, opens this week at the Kurt Vonnegut Museum in Indianapolis….

09.07.23 | 7 min read
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Emerging Technology
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Trust Issues: An Analysis of NSF’s Funding for Trustworthy AI

Below, we analyze AI R&D grants from the National Science Foundation’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (NSF CISE) directorate, estimating those supporting “trustworthy AI” research. NSF hasn’t offered an…

09.05.23 | 15 min read
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