How demeaning is retail work from an insider’s perspective? What does Facebook’s purchase of Oculus mean for virtual education? Will Al Qaeda’s latest tactic to radicalize Western fighters work? Programs at the Aspen Institute have been scouring their respective issue areas to find and share the most insightful and informative links to answer these questions, and more.
Scroll down to see tweets from across the Institute this week about what’s topical right now. Follow our @AspenInstitute list on Twitter for updates and to keep up with each program’s events, video, and experts, and let us know what you’re reading in the comments section below.
READ: New post from @GVanderZanden on how Boston charters are meeting the rising demand for quality #ELL education | http://t.co/hLcVJUhJqk
— NewSchools (@nsvf) March 27, 2014
Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop http://t.co/aorseULXLG – @HarvardBiz #ImpInv
— AMP (@AMPGlobal) March 27, 2014
Facebook buys virtual reality company Oculus. Could this be a big boom for education? Say hi to virtual classrooms. http://t.co/Ms4C1KbT25
— Aspen Task Force (@AspenTaskForce) March 27, 2014
Employers can afford higher wages that raise families out of poverty & bear closer relation to local living costs via http://t.co/uZZkBvAfvB
— Aspen Ascend (@AspenAscend) March 26, 2014
.@EricSchmittNYT: Qaeda Militants Seek Syria Base and Radicalizing Western Fighters, U.S. Officials Say http://t.co/aLjRFRTXBt
— Aspen Security Forum (@AspenSecurity) March 26, 2014
WEEKEND READ: Life as a Retail Worker: Nasty, Brutish, and Poor http://t.co/QTJFJ95v9p @TheAtlantic
— Aspen BSP (@AspenBizSociety) March 22, 2014
