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This Week: "Transparency Reporting for Beginners" in San Francisco and Austin
This afternoon in San Francisco at the Internet and human rights conference Rightscon, OTI's policy director Kevin Bankston will be appearing on th...
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Overwhelmed
Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time
Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time? According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true...
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How Full-Time are “Full-Time” Students
Complete College America has released a policy brief reporting the results of a survey looking at enrollment patters of “full-time” and “part-time”...
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How the Politics of Language Can Get In the Way of Policy: On Convergence and Framing
In a recent expert survey, we examined the effect of Stuxnet on the Internet governance debate. One of the most common responses was that Stuxnet a...
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Civil Rights in the Age of Big Data
Digital information about who we are and what we do is the currency of our digital economy and the substrate of our digital society. As the flow of...
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Forecasts of terrorist apocalypse? Never mind
One topic where pundits, politicians and prognosticators of every persuasion don't have any problem about making pessimistic predictions is terrorism.
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Connected Communities in an Age of Digital Learning
The need to upgrade America’s Internet infrastructure to support innovative digital learning tools and services has never been greater. In the past...
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Paternity Leave: Why Men Don't Take It, But Should
New mothers usually take at least some time off after delivering a baby, but dads are less likely to take leave. Advocates are pushing more dads to...
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Connecting Tax Time to Financial Security
Designing Public Policy with Evidence from the Field
The ability to accumulate and access savings is a fundamental determinant of economic security for many families, especially those with low incomes...
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Raising Arizona: Lessons for the Nation from a State’s Experience with Full-Day Kindergarten
Though recently much attention has been given to the importance of early childhood education, one stubborn shortcoming of education in the early gr...
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Comcast and Netflix Reach Deal on Service
Others, including Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor and advocate for net neutrality, said the interconnection agreement between Comcast and N...
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STEM Attrition: College Students’ Paths into and out of STEM Fields
The National Center for Education Statistics has released a study looking at undergraduate student attrition in the STEM fields (science, technolog...
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5 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Work Too Hard
Forget Russian figure skater Julia Lipnitskaia spinning in a blur with her leg impossibly held straight up against her ear. The sight of skier Bode...
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YouthSavers in Nepalgunj, Nepal Share Their Thoughts
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting with a few of the over 5,000 young Nepalis who are currently saving in CYBY accounts at YouthSave’s pa...
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Monica Lewinsky, Reconsidered
Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul and the new politics of an old sex scandal.
Like it or not, we’re having a national flashback to the 1990s—replete with images of thong underwear near the Oval Office, semen-stained blue dres...
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Roundtable: A Trove of Clinton Documents in Arkansas | CNN
Liza Mundy: "[Hillary] uses the phrase 'pain threshold,' and she talks about how people in Washington have a pain threshold that is too low. It sou...
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Will the U.S. negotiate with terrorists?
The U.S. government's long-stated position is that it won't negotiate with terrorists. But are there exceptions?
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A Saudi Woman Is Threatened After Tweeting About Beards
The controversy began—as virtually all political and religious debate in Saudi Arabia does these days—with a provocative tweet. On January 18th, So...
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Now I Know Who My Comrades Are
Voices from the Internet Underground
In China, university students use the Internet to save the life of an attempted murder victim. In Cuba, authorities unsuccessfully try to silence a...
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The Student Debt Review
Student debt is not a new concern. But it is a complex story, the details of which vary greatly depending on the type of college a student attends,...
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NPSAS Price Estimates for Attending Postsecondary Education: First Look
Using data from the 2011-2012 National Postsecondary Study Aid Study (NPSAS:12), the National Center for Education Statistics has released a report...