Via American Council of Trustees and Alumni – “…ACTA’s new report, No U.S. History? How College History Departments Leave the United States out of the Major, reveals that less than 1/3 of the nations leading colleges and universities require students pursuing a degree in history to take a single course in American history. Only 23 undergraduate history programs at the U.S. News & World Report’s top 25 national universities, top 25 public institutions, and top 25 liberal arts colleges require a single U.S. history class. And many of the same institutions that do not require history majors to take a course on United States history do specify that they must complete coursework on areas outside the United States. “Historical illiteracy is the inevitable consequence of lax college requirements, and that ignorance leads to civic disempowerment,” observed Michael Poliakoff, ACTA’s president-elect. “A democratic republic cannot thrive without well-informed citizens and leaders.”
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Daily Archives: July 4, 2016
National Security Archive – President Obama Signs Freedom of Information Act Improvements Into Law
National Security Archive posting June 30, 2016: “At 4:00 PM today President Barack Obama signed the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016 (S. 337) into law. The bipartisan, bicameral bill – introduced by Senators John Cornyn, Chuck Grassley, and Patrick Leahy, and supported by Representatives Jason Chaffetz and Elijah Cummings in the House – will improve… Continue Reading
Can Catastrophic Insurance Improve Financing for Long-Term Services and Supports?
Urban Institute – Brief – Can Catastrophic Insurance Improve Financing for Long-Term Services and Supports? Melissa M. Favreault; Howard Gleckman; Richard W. Johnson. June 9, 2016 – “A catastrophic insurance program could improve the way long-term services and supports are financed. The program would require enrollees who need care to wait a few years before… Continue Reading
Paper – The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization
Acemoglu, Daron and Robinson, James A. and Torvik, Ragnar, The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization (May 5, 2016). MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 16-04. Available for download at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2783571 “We provide a potential explanation for the absence of, and unwillingness to create, centralized power in the hands of a national state… Continue Reading
House Homeland Security Report – Going Dark, Going Forward: A Primer on the Encryption Debate
June 29, 2016: “Terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have sparked a public debate on the use of encryption in our society because the attackers used encrypted communications to evade detection, a phenomenon known as “going dark.” Today, the Majority Staff of the House Homeland Security Committee released a new report entitled, Going Dark,… Continue Reading
The Changing Landscape of American Life Expectancy
Brookings – The Hamilton Project – The Changing Landscape of American Life Expectancy By: Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Ryan Nunn and Lauren Bauer “Life expectancy—the average remaining years an individual of a particular age can be expected to live—is perhaps the most valuable indicator of social progress. In the past 100 years Americans have enjoyed an… Continue Reading
The Urban Water Blueprint Report
“The Nature Conservancy’s Urban Water Blueprint examines the state of water in more than 500 cities around the world. Our research reveals that there’s an enormous potential for nature to improve water quality for cities. In fact, cities could potentially save $890 million a year in water treatment costs by investing in nature–based solutions in… Continue Reading
LocationSafe: Granular Location Privacy for IoT Devices
LocationSafe: Granular Location Privacy for IoT Devices – Joshua Joy, Minh Le, Mario Gerlaar; Xiv:1606.09605v1 [cs.CR] for this version), submitted 30 June 2016. “Today, mobile data owners lack consent and control over the release and utilization of their location data. Third party applications continuously process and access location data without data owners granular control and… Continue Reading
Leakedsource collects hacked data from across the globe
Follow up to previous posting on this database – Leakedsource – “There are currently 1,933,304,758 accounts in our database” – users may search by term or type. Via ET Tech – “If you have an account online regardless of the country you reside in, chances are you have been hacked or will be hacked at… Continue Reading
