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Teachers Love 4-Day School Weeks. Do They Work?

Four-day school weeks are increasingly being offered as a way to recruit teachers, but the research is mixed on the advantages and disadvantages of the schedule. Now some states are reconsidering it.

Tech&Learning · Feb 1, 2024

Francis Wilkinson: We already know which gun policies work

Rand Corporation, the think tank with origins in Cold War military planning, recently issued its latest update on gun policy research. Rand has been sifting through gun research, offering generally conservative assessments of its utility and findings, since 2018. As strictures on gun violence research have fallen, and more such…

Tribune News Service · Jan 24, 2023

EXPLAINER: How impoverished N. Korea finances testing spree

North Korea’s recent barrage of missile tests, including Wednesday’s record of at least 23 launches, is raising an important question about its weapons program: How does the impoverished country pay for the seemingly endless tests

The Independent UK · Nov 4, 2022

Study: US Could Have Done More to Limit Civilian Toll in Raqqa Battle

The US military could have done more to limit civilian casualties and damage during the battle for the Syrian city of Raqqa that marked ISIS’ fall in 2017, according to a report commissioned by the Pentagon. At the end of the nearly five-month battle to free the city from ISIS,…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 2, 2022

Do Studies Show Gun Control Works? No.

Out of 27,900 research publications on gun laws, only 123 tested their effects rigorously.

Reason · Mar 31, 2022