And former Vice President joe biden getting tighter. The abc News Washington post survey of registered voters is a virtual dead heat with biden favored by 49 , trump by 47 . Those are some of our top stories on this monday, march 30th. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We do begin with help on the way for new york city. The u. S. Navy hospital ship comfort is set to arrive today in new york harbor equipped with 1,000 beds and a full medical staff. It will be used for noncovid19 patients to free up space in overwhelmed hospitals. The Javits Center in manhattan is opening its doors today with 3,000 beds on hand. In california the Los Angeles Convention center also serving as an overflow hospital as President Trump pushes back the deadline for social distancing. Abcs rachel scott has more. Reporter President Trump, who had hoped to get things back to normal by easter, now extending the voluntary National Guidelines until april 30th. Nothing would be worse than declaring vi
And Public Policy events from washington dc and around the country. So you can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1979, cspan is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Up next hearing examines the effects of trauma on children and their mental and physical developments held by the house education and labor subcommittee, this is about two hours 15 minutes. The committee on education and labor will come to order. Will come everyone. I note that a quorum is present. The committee is meeting today in a hearing to hear testimony on the importance of trauma in education to assist students impacted by gun violence and other adverse events. I note for the subcommittee that miss of oregon, miss , miss wilde of pennsylvania and mr. Castro of texas are permitted to participate in todays hearings with the understanding that their questions will come only after all members of the subcommittee on both sides of the aisle who are pr
You see my hand, raise your hand please if you can see my hand raise your hand. See my hand, raise your hand. There we go. That was my k through 12 persona. Terrific, we are going to get started for our afternoon session. We were founded by the Colonial Assembly in the colony of massachusetts, they passed authority to the State Government at the time of writing of the state constitution so harvard is in the massachusetts state constitution. People have come to think its a private university. Go figure how that transpired, but Public University. Pleasure to be here and we are here also as one of coauthors of the educating for american democracy road map for k through 12 education and really a lot of the colleagues, jim are here who worked on that, peter levine as well and maybe some others who participated in that project, checker finn who is currently working with us was here earlier and as i think about the issue of Civic Education in the university, for me it boils to something very
There we go. That was my k through 12 persona. Terrific, we are going to get started for our afternoon session. We were founded by the Colonial Assembly in the colony of massachusetts, they passed authority to the State Government at the time of writing of the state constitution so harvard is in the massachusetts state constitution. People have come to think its a private university. Go figure how that transpired, but Public University. Pleasure to be here and we are here also as one of coauthors of the educating for american democracy road map for k through 12 education and really a lot of the colleagues, jim are here who worked on that, peter levine as well and maybe some others who participated in that project, checker finn who is currently working with us was here earlier and as i think about the issue of Civic Education in the university, for me it boils to something very simple. The road map released in 2021 was the product of about 300 educators and scholars from around the coun
A half. [inaudible conversations] good morning, if everyone could go ahead and take their seats. So let me im ben story, senior fellow here at the American Enterprise institute, i want to welcome you all to aeis, American University conference. So when jenna, scholar here and i were talking about what we wanted to do by founding a new Conference Series on the American University here at aei, we wanted to focus on the ways that universities can help themselves and help the rest of us by doing better the things that they are best built to do. We want today focus on how thinks that universities can be better universities. Now Society Social changes but institutions dedicate today the discovery and transmission of wisdom and awakening and development of the most profound powers of the human mind. Weve been working on this with the help of many people in this room who are on the ground on campus working to make universities more like their best se lves, our goal is to gather the best that i