Tag: house
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New State Laws Will Ease Housing Burdens on Home-Based Child Care Providers
[ad_1] In addition to the wide array of challenges that child care providers in America already face — low wages, few if any workplace benefits, lack of respect and professionalization — those who care for and educate young children in their own homes face an additional burden: housing. As EdSurge has been chronicling in recent ... -
Defense Business Brief: Space Command to stay in Colorado; House and Senate pass NDAA; Some personal news; and more.
[ad_1] JUST IN: The Biden administration will keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado, the Pentagon announced just a little bit ago, reversing a Trump administration decision to move it to Huntsville, Alabama. You can read our breaking news coverage here. Despite what anyone tells you, all basing decisions, small and large, are political. They are ... -
How the US is using open-source intel to track Russia’s war in Ukraine
[ad_1] The Pentagon’s lead military intelligence agency has been relying on public and commercially available information to keep tabs on Russia’s movements in Ukraine. The Defense Intelligence Agency recently invited a small cadre of reporters to view recovered remnants of unmanned aerial vehicles made in Iran and used by Russia in its war on Ukraine, ... -
Tanker program adds 9 ships to fuel US military in a crisis
[ad_1] Nine ships have joined a Defense Department program that puts them on call to haul fuel in a crisis, giving the Pentagon options beyond the handful of commercial tanker ships available now. The Tanker Security Program was created by the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, and enables the Department of Transportation to set up ... -
Dealing with defense travel is a one-way ticket to frustration for lawmakers
[ad_1] The Pentagon’s handling of the failed transition to a new defense travel system has resulted in “bipartisan frustration,” lawmakers said Wednesday during a House oversight and accountability hearing. “Many of us are frustrated by the lack of accountability, the lack of transparency concerning what happened here. It’s a bipartisan frustration. And, in fact, I ... -
‘More capable than anything we have’: lawmakers, witnesses, express alarm on UFO phenomenon
[ad_1] Three witnesses to unidentified aerial phenomena told Congress on Wednesday about objects performing maneuvers beyond what any known aircraft could achieve—aerial events that pose a rising threat to civilian aircraft, they said. But the unusually wide-ranging testimony also gave stage to uncorroborated accusations of a massive government cover up, expositions on the existence of ... -
How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research
[ad_1] Ian Cook, a longtime professor and social anthropologist, still remembers the first podcast he ever heard. It was a podcast version of the BBC radio show In Our Time, where a panel of academics discussed the history of ideas. The podcast included not just the radio show, but an extended conversation, where the guests ... -
Latino Teachers Share How Their Communities Can Reshape Education — If Given the Chance
[ad_1] This is the second in a three-part series of conversations with Latino educators and edtech experts. Read the first part here. As Latino children make up a growing proportion of public school students in the United States, they’re also facing unique challenges. Education researchers now know that Latino students were dealt an outsized blow ...











