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AIR Researchers to Discuss a Range of Education Issues at the Comparative and International .
American Institutes for ResearchApril 20, 2021 GMT
Arlington, Virginia, April 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Experts from the American Institutes for Research (AIR) and IMPAQ, an AIR affiliate, will present at several sessions during the annual conference of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES), being held virtually April 25 to May 2, 2021.
The theme for this year’s conference is “Social Responsibility within Changing Contexts,” and focuses on closely examining the work of the field and how others experience the work in a changing environment with a growing variety of people who may or may not share the same visions for the future. CIES is the largest and oldest comparative and international society in the world, with more than 3,000 members representing over 1,000 univ
spier, former editor in chief of the new york observer, a publisher that jared kushner used to own. were you hired by him? yeah, yeah. so you worked very closely with him. what in is experience is relevant from what you saw there to what he might be doing in government now? it s a bit of a mystery to some people. i think the biggest thing is that he assumes that a lot of his past experience is directly transferable to whatever he s working on at the moment. the observer translated into jared taking practices that were pretty common in commercial real estate and trying to apply them to a media business, which is completely different kind of business. so you see him doing that a little bit now that he s in a government position, and he s coming into it with no experience and, frankly, no prior qualifications. so he s taking what he understands from commercial real estate and trying to apply it. which is interesting because that is what donald trump also knows. yes. so what ar
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end. there are a lot of people, particularly in the private sector, who really view things like that. i think jared does as a matter of course. i also have to examine the possibility that he was lying to me about that because he thought it would be on some level a more palatable answer. it was a strange conversation. at the time trump was running for president but i considered him a fringe candidate, so i didn t think it was going to be significant. and now, you know, i had no idea this is where we would end up, so fascinating. fascinating if you put into context the idea that your word is your bond. elizabeth, thank you so much for sharing your personal and professional experience with the kushner family, i appreciate that. next, we woke up to a new word this morning, covfefe. president trump tweeted it overnight leading to a number of
president trump s birtherism claims and i guess how the observer was covering it. can you tell us about that? jared and i were going back and forth about how the paper should cover trump. one of the things that jared said to me whenever i refused to tone down the coverage or make it gratuitously positive was if you spent more time with him, you would really like him. i said, well, jared, it doesn t matter because that wouldn t affect the paper s coverage. i said i have to be honest with you, there are things that your father-in-law has done that i find deeply disturbing. he said like what? i said, well, the birtherism stuff. i thought it was blatantly racist. jared kind of rolled his eyes and said, oh, elizabeth, he doesn t believe that, he s just saying it because republicans will buy it. and i didn t think that was a more palatable answer. and jared was comfortable with that. he was comfortable with the idea trump doesn t believe in birtherism, he s selling, he s playing to the