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Rebalancing the Scales
The 2015 Assets Budget
The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty naturally prompts reflection on how much progress has been made and how to chart a path forward. While t...
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Did terrorists take control of Flight 370?
Could the mystery of Malaysia Airlines 370 then be explained as an act of terrorism?
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Plane takeovers a dangerous reality
Air Safety Week, an aviation industry magazine, ran a story in January 2001 observing that, "the number of cases where the sanctity of the cockpit ...
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Sharpening Our Focus on Learning: The Rise of Competency-Based Approaches to Degree Completion
A recent paper from the National Institute for Learning Outcomes Assessment examines competency-based education (CBE) in the United States. CBE cre...
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sheri Fink Win Book Awards
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sheri Fink were among the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, named Thursday night in New York City. T...
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Peer-to-Peer Financial Education Takes Off in Kenya Project
Peer education has been defined as: "An approach which empowers young people to work with other young people, and which draws on the positive stren...
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Dianne Feinstein is no bomb thrower
In an angry speech, Feinstein asserted that the CIA has violated federal laws by covertly removing classified documents from her committee's comput...
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When passenger jets mysteriously disappear
Nothing gets conspiracy theorists going more than a passenger plane crashing under mysterious circumstances.
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College Blackout
How the Higher Education Lobby Fought to Keep Students in the Dark
Ever-rising college costs, more than $1 trillion in outstanding federal student loan debt, and graduates doubtful that they’ll be able to earn enou...
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D.C. Is Debbie Dingell’s Town
Earlier this winter, Debbie Dingell made time for a chat over lunch at Bistro Bis, a Capitol Hill watering hole not far from the office of her husb...
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The Weekly Wonk: Our War with Teachers
Most of us can easily remember our favorite teachers. Yet as a whole, American society devalues the profession – eroding the enthusiasm of educator...
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Cyberwar hits Ukraine
Ukrainian security officials are complaining that unknown attackers are interfering with the mobile phone services of members of Ukraine's parliame...
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Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates – Fall 2007 Cohort PART TWO
The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center has released its second annual report on student attainment rates for students who first enrolle...
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“Bringing the Bank to the Unbanked, While Making Bank” Blog Series to Launch This Month
For the past four years YouthSave has worked with partner financial institutions in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal to extended tailored savings p...
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No Exit: The Digital Edition
Privacy advocates say we should care about privacy because its erosion threatens liberty. "A human being who lives in a world in which he thinks he...
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The Bright Continent
Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa
Africa is a continent on the move. It’s often hard to notice, though—the Western focus on governance and foreign aid obscures the individual dynami...
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Key Questions: Education Policy in the President's Fiscal Year 2015 Budget
President Barack Obama submitted his fiscal year 2015 budget request to Congress on March 4, 2014. The proposal, which includes $1.014 trillion in ...
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The U.S. Economy After The Great Recession
America's Deleveraging and Recovery Experience
The bursting of the housing bubble in 2008 plunged the U.S. economy into a serious crisis, leaving American households with a huge debt overhang an...
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OTI seeks new Field Operations Director
The Open Technology Institute is seeking a new Director of Field Operations. The DFO leads OTI's participatory research and technology implementati...
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The Financial Health Check
A Behavioral Approach to Financial Coaching
Managing day-to-day finances is about as complex as changing the oil in a car – with some skill and instruction we can manage it, but there’s a goo...