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Jan 28 2020
Analysis
Whatever Happened to the Classroom of the Future?
The runaway success of Khan Academy, which launched in 2008, showed the potential of online learning to revolutionize K-12 education. It meant that a great classroom lecture could be experienced by anyone, anywhere. The same year, the legendary business consultant and academic Clayton Christensen—who passed away last week at the age of 67—co-authored Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation
ReasonMay 26 2020
News
Questions about COVID-19 test accuracy raised across the testing spectrum
For Sarah Bowen, it all started with a sore throat. Not the kind of searing pain she’d feel with strep, she said, but a throat irritation that just didn’t feel right.
“By the end of the day, it just got a little worse and I didn’t feel great. I felt like I might be coming down with something. And the next day, things got worse,” Bowen, 31, of Portland, Oregon, said.
Bowen works
NBC News (Online)May 26 2020
News
The Pandemic Is Driving America's Schools Toward A Financial Meltdown
Austin Beutner looked haggard, his face a curtain of worry lines. The superintendent of the second-largest school district in the nation sat at a desk last week delivering a video address to Los Angeles families. But he began with a stark message clearly meant for another audience:
Lawmakers in Sacramento and Washington, D.C.
"Cuts to funding at schools will forever impact the
NPR (Online News)Jul 17 2013
News
Senate Crisis Averted Where Clinton Impeachment Planned
The brinkmanship and personal recrimination pointed to a Senate in crisis. After weeks of deadlocked partisan talks over President Barack Obama’s choice to run a consumer financial protection bureau born of the worst recession since the Great Depression, Democratic leaders threatened to strip Republicans of their power to block Richard Cordray’s confirmation.
BloombergMar 10 2021
Analysis
As relief bill expands safety net, are views of welfare state shifting?
As President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan speeds toward final passage this week, Democrats are hailing the bill as one of the most sweeping pieces of progressive legislation in decades – one that they say will lift millions of Americans, particularly children, out of poverty, and could herald a deeper and more long-term shift in public attitudes toward government assistance
Christian Science MonitorJun 27 2019
News
Winners and losers from the Democratic presidential debate’s first night
The first night of the first debate of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is over, with the first 10 candidates jousting Wednesday night in Miami.
Below are our winners and losers.
Winners
Elizabeth Warren: The Massachusetts senator went into the debate with the biggest target on her back as the highest-polling candidate onstage. But she largely skated. Other
Washington PostJun 17 2012
News
Romney Revs Up Drive in Michigan
Barack Obama breezed to victory in Michigan in 2008 and, until recently, his bailout of the state's auto industry looked to have armored him well for November. But signs of trouble are brewing in the Great Lakes State. If they grow, they would signal broader problems for the president in the industrial Midwest.
Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 29 2013
News
W.H. calls on Egypt to stop rapes
White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest on Friday condemned a spate of sexual violence during protests in Egypt and called on the Egyptian government to intervene. quotSexual violence including gang rape has occurred during recent demonstrations in Egypt and this is a cause of great concern to the United States the international community...
PoliticoNov 29 2021
Perspectives Blog
When Democrats Start Thinking About Life After Biden
Joe Biden would not be the first president whose party lost Congressional seats in his first mid-term election. Nor would he be the first president to lose seats in Congress during his first midterms and then win re-election for himself two years later. But as Biden’s poll numbers continue to decline, nervous Democrats are worrying greatly about how their party can hold onto the White House in
Dan SchnurMar 04 2020
Analysis
What Went Down On Super Tuesday
Well, it’ll still be days or weeks before we have the full vote total in California, and it’s still too close to call in Maine, but with Texas now in the win column for Biden, this evening’s top-line takeaway is even clearer: Biden mounted a comeback and won Super Tuesday.
In total, Biden won nine of the 15 primary contests at stake tonight, pulling off a number of upset victories,
538 (ABC News)