Truman National Security Project

Truman Project Partner Jason Stanford discusses standardized testing in Texas. The Texas legislature is poised to reduce the number of standardized tests required to graduate from high school from 15 to as few as five. This comes amid a national backlash against high-stakes testing that many parents, teachers and students argue has corrupted classroom instruction [...]

Truman Project Fellow Lionel Beehner talks about the need to listen and learn. Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook fame has a powerful message for working women: lean in. She has launched “Lean In Circles,” instructional pow-wows whereby women can share work experiences and learn how to speak and even sit properly. Not to be confused with [...]

While in-the-loop intelligence and defense insiders have been preaching about the dangers of cyberwar for more than a decade (think Richard Clarke) most of the world is just starting to catch up. And they are scared. Because even though it’s great to think about cyberwar when you might be on the winning side (Stuxnet? What’s [...]

In my last visit to Pakistan, I stayed, as usual, with a close cousin and his family.  Himself a physician, his twin sons had also recently graduated from medical school and were preparing to begin their residency programs.  The mother of the family founded and ran a number of private primary and secondary schools, and [...]