How the U.S. failed its way to counterterrorism success, impacts of online coursework on college students, and helping working parents.
| How does virtual learning impact students in higher education? Though much of the public discourse around learning loss has focused on K-12, there are reasons to be worried about college students as well. Stephanie Riegg Cellini discusses preparedness, GPAs, course completion rates, and overall learning among postsecondary students forced to transition to online coursework. Read more |
| America failed its way to counterterrorism success “[A medium-footprint strategy] offers only incremental and incomplete solutions to the political problems underlying extremist violence. It also necessitates tradeoffs with other priorities, such as competing with China, and is politically vulnerable because of its association with long, frustrating wars. Yet the experience of the past two decades suggests that the medium-footprint strategy is still the best of bad options available to the United States,” argue Hal Brands and Michael O’Hanlon. Read in Foreign Affairs |
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