Think Tanks
 
 
Brookings [to 22 Jan 2022]
http://www.brookings.edu/
Accessed 22 Jan 2022
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Chatham House [to 22 Jan 2022]
https://www.chathamhouse.org/
Accessed 22 Jan 2022
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CSIS
https://www.csis.org/
Accessed 22 Jan 2022
Report
Will America Squander Its New Sputnik Moment?
January 19, 2022 | By Walter G. Copan, Andrei Iancu
 
 

Kaiser Family Foundation
https://www.kff.org/search/?post_type=press-release
Accessed 22 Jan 2022
January 20, 2022 News Release
How are Large Private Insurers Covering At-Home Rapid Tests?
Less than a week after a new federal mandate to cover such products took effect, about half of the nation’s largest private insurers allow enrollees to directly obtain rapid at-home COVID-19 tests from specific sources without having to pay anything upfront, a new KFF analysis finds. The new coverage requirement…

January 19, 2022 News Release
Biden Counties Continue to Have Higher Vaccination Rates Compared to Trump Counties, As the Omicron Variant Surges Across the U.S.
An updated KFF analysis finds that counties that voted for Biden continue to have higher COVID-19 vaccination rates compared to counties that voted for Trump. As of January 11, 65% of those in Biden counties were fully vaccinated versus 52% of those in Trump counties. Even with the Omicron variant…
 
 
Rand [to 22 Jan 2022]
https://www.rand.org/pubs.html
Reports, Selected Journal Articles
Report
Changes in School Composition During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for School-Average Interim Test Score Use
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has exacerbated concerns about using school-aggregate test scores to monitor school performance. In this report, researchers investigate how changes to school composition may contaminate aggregate scores.
Jan 19, 2022
Jonathan Schweig, Megan Kuhfeld, Melissa Kay Diliberti, Andrew McEachin, Louis T. Mariano
 
 
Urban Institute [to 22 Jan 2022]
https://www.urban.org/publications
Publications
Support for Mask and Vaccine Policies in Schools Falls along Racial and Political Lines
As COVID-19 rates rise again with the emergence of the omicron variant and roil school reopening plans, local educational leaders are faced with tough decisions about school policies. Though arguably these decisions should be informed by science, administrators must also consider how parents will respond. As the pandemic persists and new variants emerge, the partisan divide over COVID-19 mitigation strategies
Dan Silver, Michael Fienberg, Morgan Polikoff
January 13, 2022
Brief