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America's Declining Global Influence, COVID-19 and Schools, Pardoning Snowden: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on America's declining status on the world stage, why schools need long-term plans to address COVID-19, what Shinzo Abe's resignation means for the U.S.-Japan alliance, and more.
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Sep 11, 2020

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Schools Need to Be Planning for the Next 9 Months, Not the Next 9 Weeks
Schools cannot simply wait out this pandemic, nor will short-term planning and ad-hoc infrastructure get them successfully through this academic year. If schools are to minimize educational losses, large-scale investments should be made now.
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Sep 8, 2020
The Hill
Shelly Culbertson @SC_Culbertson, Shanthi Nataraj, et al.
Educational Institutions

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To Reopen Schools Safely, Prepare for New COVID-19 Test Capabilities
Safely reopening K–12 schools for in-person instruction requires complicated protocols ranging from symptom monitoring to physical distancing, as well as containment of transmission in the community. State policymakers and school leaders could begin planning now to draft, pilot, and evaluate protocols for reopening schools that incorporate rapid testing.
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Aug 28, 2020
The RAND Blog
Peter S. Hussey, John J. Rydzewski
Education Facilities

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Engaging Learning Spaces Are Important, Even During a Pandemic
While considering new uses for and formations of school space, planners might also consider whether these spaces will be conducive to learning. Research links the physical condition of learning spaces to improved student physical health and academic performance.
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Aug 18, 2020
The RAND Blog
Elizabeth D. Steiner @ED_Steiner
Refugees

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Help Syria Avoid a 'Lost Generation'
Young Syrian refugees are brimming with potential, but lack the educational and livelihood pathways through which to channel their energy and aspirations. As the international community looks for ways to end the violence in the region, it must not overlook the plight or the potential of these children.
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Jul 17, 2015
U.S. News & World Report
Shelly Culbertson @SC_Culbertson, Tom Ling, et al.
Refugees

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Syria's Simmering Crisis
At least half of Syrian refugee children aren't in school. Those who are face risks to the quality of education they receive, a risk they share with host-country children. But by making long-term investments, the international community can help ensure education isn't another casualty of the war.
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Jan 21, 2015
CNN
Shelly Culbertson @SC_Culbertson
Parenting

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Germs Go Back to School, Too: Five Ways to Protect Your Kids
With kids working and playing in close contact and sharing supplies and equipment, schools can be hotbeds for infection. Each year, K-12 students miss about 60 million school days due to colds and the flu combined. But these five approaches can help reduce their chance of spreading infections and getting sick.
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Aug 25, 2014
The RAND Blog
Jeanne S. Ringel @JeanneRingel
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Public Libraries Are Needed Now More Than Ever
What Pittsburgh attraction provides $3 of economic output for every public dollar invested? The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. If you find this factoid unlikely, it is because the research that discovered it received an astounding lack of attention, write Susan Everingham and Sally Sleeper.
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May 29, 2009
Pittsburgh Business Times
Susan M. Sohler Everingham, Sally Sleeper

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The Biden administration's lack of a competitive economic strategy, not just in Oceania but throughout the Indo-Pacific, is providing China with unique opportunities to leverage its Belt and Road Initiative to deepen trade, investment, and infrastructure development. Chinese economic overtures tend to be successful, given that Pacific Island countries are overwhelmingly small and impoverished.

Derek Grossman

Senior Defense Analyst

Source: Foreign Policy

While neurodivergent diagnoses are not automatically disqualifying from Army service, any new recruit who reveals a diagnosis jumps through hoops to serve. Some described having to prove that their diagnoses do not impede their ability to serve, which puts the burden on an eighteen-year-old to prove a negative for which the Army has no assessment criteria.

Cortney Weinbaum

Senior Management Scientist

Source: Modern War Institute (West Point)

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Education Facilities

America's Declining Global Influence, COVID-19 and Schools, Pardoning Snowden: RAND Weekly Recap

Schools Need to Be Planning for the Next 9 Months, Not the Next 9 Weeks

To Reopen Schools Safely, Prepare for New COVID-19 Test Capabilities

Engaging Learning Spaces Are Important, Even During a Pandemic

Help Syria Avoid a 'Lost Generation'

Syria's Simmering Crisis

Germs Go Back to School, Too: Five Ways to Protect Your Kids

Public Libraries Are Needed Now More Than Ever

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