Good jobs in the nation's 21st century economy require advanced literacy skills such as categorizing, evaluating, and drawing conclusions from written texts. The adoption of the Common Core State Standards by nearly all states, combined with tough literacy assessments that are now under development, will demonstrate that the literacy skills of average students fall below international standards and that the gap in literacy skills between students from advantaged and disadvantaged families is … [Read more...]
Children’s Literacy: Raising the Bar – October 2 at Princeton U
September 29, 2012 by Team Celebration
Filed Under: AMERICAN [U.S.A.], FEATURED, FEATURED EVENTS Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, children, Children’s Literacy: Raising the Bar, Common Core State Standards, conference, education, education of children, educational, future generations, kids, kids learning, Princeton University, Richard Murnane, Ron Haskins of Brookings, seminars, The Brookings Institute, The Future of Children, universal education, USA, Washington, WORKSHOPS
No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, and International Security
July 2, 2011 by admin
North Korea, Nonproliferation, Nuclear Weapons, Northeast Asia, Arms Control Jonathan Pollack, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, John L. Thornton China Center Routledge Abstract: In his latest publication No Exit: North Korea, Nuclear Weapons and International Security, Jonathan Pollack chronicles the political-military development of the Korean Peninsula since 1945, with particular attention to North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear technology and nuclear weapons. Pollack focuses on how North … [Read more...]
Filed Under: ASIA, INSPIRATIONAL BOOKS, WORLD ISSUES Tagged With: A Celebration of Women, Diplomat in Residence, Evans Revere, Former Director of Policy Planning, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Han Sung-joo, International Affairs, International Security, Jonathan D. Pollack, Mitchell Reiss, No Exit, North Korea, Nuclear Weapons, President, Princeton University, Republic of Korea, U.S. Department of State, Washington College, Woodrow Wilson School of Public
