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Recent NCES Reports
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The National Center for Education Statistics has recently issued two reports, Out-of-Pocket Net Price for College and The Condition of Education 20...
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The 2013 Tuition Discounting Study
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The tuition discount rate (institutional grant dollars as a share of gross tuition and fee revenue) for first year students at private, non-profit,...
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Snapshot Report: Postsecondary Student Mobility Rate: 2011-2013
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A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center examined student mobility rates from 2011-2013. The student-mobility rate is t...
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Comments on Protecting and Promoting the Open Internet
The following is the executive summary of the comments. Download a PDF of the full comments here. Strong open Internet protections are needed to en...
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Youth Financial Inclusion: Reframing the Work for a Wider Audience
“We [need to] make the conscious decision to be on a different trajectory and to never, ever talk about young people as a problem, as a threat, as ...
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Emerging Market Portfolio Globalization
The Next Big Thing
In 2014 emerging markets have shown remarkable resiliency despite negative news and record foreign investor outflows. Jay Pelosky, founder of J2Z A...
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Google Plus finally gives up on its ineffective, dangerous real-name policy
After three years, Google finally got it. Google now admits it was wrong to require real names on Google Plus, and it’s apologized for taking so lo...
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The Wizard of Jobs
How the U.S. Could Generate Over 1.3 Million Private Sector Jobs in Six Months and Still be in a Slump
At first glance, the U.S job picture continues to improve with the U.S. economy generating an average of 222,000 new private sector jobs a month in...
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High School Exit Exams Hinder Common Core Implementation, New Report Finds
Washington — In the 2013-14 school year, twenty-four states required students to be proficient on standardized tests in order to graduate from high...
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Beyond Subprime Learning
Education policymakers must put more focus on teaching and learning in the early years and continue that work up through third grade, according to ...
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The Case Against Exit Exams
In the 2013-14 school year, twenty-four states required students to be proficient on standardized tests in order to graduate from high school. But ...
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OTI Analysis of Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA, S. 2588)
The following is the introduction to the Open Technology Institute's analysis of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA, S. 2588),...
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The CISPA-Zombie Won’t Die
Instead, It Changed Its Name to CISA and It’s Here to Violate Your Privacy.
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee met in secret and approved the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2014 (CISA)(S. 2588). The bil...
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How Data Caps Are Bad For Cybersecurity
A number of high-profile tech policy issues are dominating the summer headlines, including the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cabl...
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Abdullah Holds Powerful Cards in Afghan Election Crisis | Radio Free Europe
Anand Gopal, author of "No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes" and a fellow at the Washington-based N...
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Thrown Out of Court
Late last year a massive data hack at Target exposed as many as 110 million consumers around the country to identity theft and fraud. As details of...
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Democratic Party’s Divide On Education Policy Gets Worse
http://ourfuture.org/20140709/democratic-partys-divide-on-education-policy-gets-worse
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Bush Trifecta Lands on Obama: Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan Imploding
Anand Gopal has argued convincingly that US troops left in Afghanistan got drawn into tribal feuds and destabilized the south and east of the count...
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“Banking on Girls: From Piggy Banks to Savings Accounts” - Should girls be considered a separate segment when designing youth savings programs?
Is it more difficult to financially include girls? Data from some programs seeking to increase girls’ participation in formal savings seems to sugg...
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National Insecurity Agency: How the NSA Undermines Internet Security
On the heels of the latest NSA disclosures from The Washington Post, the Open Technology Institute hosted an event on Monday about how the agency’s...