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Trolls, Bots and Co-Opts: How Foreign State Actors Interact With Our Society
Our current media and social landscape has been influenced in no small way by these foreign actors. Divisive, hateful and unproductive language has seeped into our political discourse at all levels, distracting from real solutions and bringing about an age of unparalleled social backlash. How can we distinguish between voices of good intent and those merely trying to injure our entire nation by pulling it apart?
Young Children CAN Spread COVID-19 to Adults
A new CDC analysis has raised alarms as analysis of daycare centers confirms that young children can spread COVID-19 to adults without showing symptoms of the virus themselves.
Reopening schools during COVID-19
Should we allow local schools to reopen? Science Magazine clarifies the rules we can follow, on Sep 4, 2020.
Beware of the Mental Health Toll from COVID-19
The cost of mental health illness from COVID-19 is in the hundreds of billions and strikes at the heart of ourselves, our families and our friends.
Racial Cycles, by George Friedman
Tracing the cycles of racism in America. Where do we go from here?
Part 1 in Zeitgeist Playbook: Navigating the COVID Pandemic
COVID-19 surging again. How do we manage our careers in the midst of such uncertainty? By Becka Roberts, Karen Toro and Leigh Teece, Beacon Media, July 9, 2020.
The American Chemical Society's Gift to Learning & Society
If you're a life-long learner and you haven't discovered this organization, it's worth exploring.
Mentoring in a Time of Crisis and Uncertainty
This is a time for Connection. Mentoring is a great way to connect. Whether you are a mentor or a mentee, reach out with intention and compassion to make your mentoring relationship stronger.
Embracing Our Independence: Learning to Grow from Uncertainty
What are the lessons from COVID-19 that can lead to creation, confidence and community?
Playbook For The New Zeitgeist: A New Spirit Of The Times
A series to navigate our new reality. Let's share ideas. By Becka Roberts, Karen Toro and the Beacon Media team.
A Better Answer for Career-Seekers is an Open-Economy Response to Covid-19
We need to turn to other models to control the spread of Coronaviruses that don't cost us our economic affluence, or even economic survival. Millennials especially will be hit with high tax rates for generations unless we re-ignite the economy without enormous high-cost measures with questionable destinations.
The Profits of Standardized Testing: a Billion Dollars Plus
The Profits of Standardized Testing: a Billion Dollars Plus
Education Today Adheres to Mandates of "Committee of Ten" of Year 1892
A prescient Nation at Risk report, issued over 30 years ago, remarked that “if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.”
Developing a Solutions Mindset in the Digital Age
Progressive Liberty strives to empower us to make progress by finding solutions that give us the liberty to think for ourselves. To be able to live and let live by bridging gaps in our understanding and values.
California schools chief recommends that schools prepare for distance learning for rest of school year
“Due to the current safety concerns and needs for ongoing social distancing, it appears that our students will not be able to return to school campuses before the end of the school year,” Thurmond wrote in a letter sent to the state’s 58 county superintendents of schools on Tuesday morning. Referring to Thurmond’s letter, Alameda County’s Monroe said, “we are grateful for the push and acknowledgment that distance learning will take our entire focus to make it work well.”
