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This resource is designed to help state education leaders identify potential actions focused on fostering social and emotional development and school connectedness and is not intended to offer one-size-fits-all recommendations.

How can people exercise and return to play in a manner that minimizes the prospect of contracting or transmitting COVID-19? The Aspen Institute has created this tool with the support of medical experts to help people of all ages assess risk in a variety of common sport and recreational activities.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, technology companies are playing a key role in providing innovative services and platforms for communities to come together, filling the gaps left by overstretched NGOs and government entities.

The U.S. has long rationed health care—by factors that include income, immigration status, age, and disability—but it’s rarely explicit or acknowledged.

In this paper, the Institute’s Education & Society Program proposes five principles to guide recovery and renewal.

Watch Dr. Tom Frieden, President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, discuss the strategies governments must prioritize to “box in” COVID-19, lessons from other countries, and what we can expect as a “new normal”, with Alison Kodjak, U.S. Investigations Editor at the Associated Press.

President & CEO, Dan Porterfield, talks with Oliver Sharpe from The Aspen Daily News about how the Aspen Institute is reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic and how the organization is making an impact socially, economically and politically.

Digital technology, its pervasiveness in our lives, its impact on how we think and remember, its central role in mediating our relationships, has been a growing concern for parents navigating raising children in a rapidly changing landscape. Physical distancing, brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic, has accelerated the use of these technologies, with classes going virtual and social activities moved online. How will this collective leap to functioning virtually affect our children’s lives, ability to learn and to relate to others?