--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 4 description: ISIS's recruiting power, privacy for police body cameras, a university recognizes the gender 'neutral,' an Indian state's success and more. canonical: https://time.com/3695314/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-4/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-04T17:01:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:51.683Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: ISIS's recruiting power, privacy for police body cameras, a university recognizes the gender 'neutral,' an Indian state's success and more og:url: https://time.com/3695314/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-4/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas twitter:description: ISIS's recruiting power, privacy for police body cameras, a university recognizes the gender 'neutral,' an Indian state's success and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 4 by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 4, 2015 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 4, 2015 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**ISIS is bringing recruits onto the battlefield faster than we can kill them.**](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/02/03/isis-recruits-thousands-of-new-fighters-despite-u-s-bombs.html) By Tim Mack and Nancy A. Youssef in the Daily Beast **2\.** [**If body cameras become standard issue for police officers, how will we protect the privacy of people being recorded?**](http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Passcode-Voices/2015/0203/Opinion-Privacy-could-be-the-victim-if-police-body-cameras-aren-t-more-hack-proof) By Paul Rosenzweig in The Christian Science Monitor **3\.** [**A university recognizes a third gender: Neutral.**](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/education/edlife/a-university-recognizes-a-third-gender-neutral.html) By Julie Scelfo in the New York Times **4\.** [**Can the rest of the nation — and the world — learn from one Indian state’s incredible success reducing poverty and improving quality of life?**](http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2015/01/28/himachal-pradesh-secrets-of-success) By the World Bank **5\.** [**Want better schools? Leadership matters. Invest in high-quality professional development for school principals.**](http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/01/21/for-principals-continuous-learning-critical-to-career.html) By Arianna Prothero in Education Week  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3695314/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-4/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3695314/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-4/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 4","datePublished":"2015-02-04T17:01:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:51.683Z","description":"ISIS's recruiting power, privacy for police body cameras, a university recognizes the gender 'neutral,' an Indian state's success and more.","url":"https://time.com/3695314/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-4/","keywords":["Innovation","gender","Education","India","Syria","Iraq","police","poverty","ISIS","Turkey","Schools","Security","privacy","Students","development","LGBTQ","University","Islamic State","body cameras"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3695314/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-4/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 4"}}]}] ```