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This practical guide provides a scalable, step-by-step plan for creating and maintaining a successful library social media strategic plan.

Jane Austen and Masculinity is an eclectic collection of contemporary scholarship addressing the representation of men and masculinity in the fiction and popular adaptations of Austen. This anthology includes work by a variety of esteemed and emergent Austen scholars from around the world who engage in a dialogue on critical questions surrounding her fictional treatment of men and masculinity, such as historical (post-French Revolutionary) changes in social expectations for men and women, brothers and fathers, male lovers, soldiers and the military, queer and alternative sexualities, violence, and male devotees of Austen. The collection addresses Austen’s fiction, including her juvenilia, as well as the ongoing popular appeal of her work and the enduring Austen vogue. The work in this anthology builds on established critical discourses in Austen scholarship as well as important conversations in Masculinity Studies.

In this report, we share insights from a national scan and more than 80 interviews with early adopters of COVID-19 testing in K-12 schools as of December 2020. We describe the characteristics of early adopter schools and districts and their varied approaches to testing. We provide concrete examples of key facilitators of feasible, acceptable, and effective COVID-19 testing. Through ten detailed profiles of schools, districts, and states that have implemented COVID-19 testing in the K-12 setting, we illustrate how these facilitators enabled schools to establish their testing programs. The experiences of early adopters of COVID-19 testing during the fall 2020 semester show that, despite the absence of a comprehensive national K-12 testing strategy, testing can be effectively integrated into schools' COVID-19 response plans and can help families and staff feel comfortable participating in in-person instruction. However, even for well-resourced districts and schools, launching a COVID-19 screening testing program was a major undertaking that required access to rapid-turnaround tests, additional staffing or strong partners for logistical support, technical assistance for the design and execution of testing programs, and a strategy for successfully engaging the school community to participate in testing. Based on these findings, we conclude with several recommendations for school and district leaders and for policymakers to support the implementation of school-based COVID-19 testing programs that can achieve their intended goals. (1) To support feasible COVID-19 testing in schools, policymakers can expand federal and state funding and resources for testing in schools - facilitating schools' access to tests, as well as staffing and logistical support to administer tests; continue to streamline requirements (e.g., CLIA certification waivers) to reduce barriers for schools to implement testing; and convene learning networks to share promising practices. (2) To support schools to make COVID-19 testing acceptable to their communities, policymakers can convey clear, consistent, and science-based messages around the risk of COVID-19 transmission in schools and how testing can help to mitigate that risk; provide incentives for teachers (e.g., paid sick leave) and families to be tested and to isolate if infected; and build on existing guidance to help school and district leaders design a testing approach that best meets their needs. (3) To support schools to implement COVID-19 testing programs that achieve their intended goals, policymakers can enact policies to expand laboratory capacity and access to tests that return results rapidly; establish state and regional technical assistance networks for schools and districts; promote the use of standardized metrics and of robust data and reporting platforms to support decisionmaking; and provide resources to strengthen state and local public health departments, ensuring they are equipped to help schools and districts respond appropriately to positive tests. This research was supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.

It’s Christmas of 2002. Joseph Steiner, a New York television executive, has just lost his job in the economic downturn that followed September 11. America is about to invade Iraq, and the world is losing sympathy for its only superpower. As for Steiner, his run of good luck and privilege seems to be coming to an end. Steiner and his wife, Mary, a severe yet alluring former fashion editor who now publishes left-wing political books, are visiting Paris, a city Steiner knows well from his annual visits with his family and his time there as a student. The couple’s son, Michael, has stayed behind in New York to protest the coming war. Steiner and Mary are borrowing the apartment of journalist friends who are on assignment in the Middle East. Compared to the worldly careers of his absent hosts, Steiner’s preoccupations with his own professional and personal woes feel small-minded. Additionally, everyone he meets seems to be leading a fuller life than Steiner. Steiner sees old friends and revisits familiar locales, haunted by his own history, as well as the uncannily contemporary worldview of Honoré de Balzac, the genius whose work obsesses Steiner. As he distractedly pursues the familiar rituals of an American in Paris, including quite a bit of shopping—thanks to Mary’s unembarrassed interest in fashion—Steiner meets two outspoken American war correspondents and a nightmarishly articulate Parisian attorney who pick away at his increasingly frail sense of self. While Mary continues as her husband’s most lovingly unforgiving critic, he contemplates the ways that he is being buffeted by history and economics. It is not until encountering a young Russian crippled in the war in Chechnya, and a comic denouement at the hands of the American Customs Service that Steiner begins to make sense of his decidedly unsentimental Christmas in Paris.

RAND Project Air Force assisted the Air Force Warfighting Integration Capability (AFWIC) in conceptualizing analytical and other products to support concept development, options for future force design, and capability development planning.

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