--- title: Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 24 description: How farming eases the return from war, fighting sexual harassment on campus in Egypt, how parents block tech progress at school and more. canonical: https://time.com/3720215/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-24/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-24T17:01:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:05:26.258Z article:section: Ideas og:title: These Are Today's Best Ideas og:description: How farming eases the return from war, fighting sexual harassment on campus in Egypt, how parents block tech progress at school and more og:url: https://time.com/3720215/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-24/ 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: How farming eases the return from war, fighting sexual harassment on campus in Egypt, how parents block tech progress at school 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 24 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 24, 2015 5:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 24, 2015 5:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**For some returning from war, a ‘G.I. bill for farming’ eases the transition home.**](http://harvestpublicmedia.org/article/back-war-farm "undefined") By Abby Wendle at Harvest Public Media **2\.** [**In Egypt, a class project to fight sexual harassment has grown into a campus-wide movement encouraging women to “Speak Up.”**](http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/02/egypt-university-harassment-female-students-campaign.html "undefined") By Ahmed Fouad in Al-Monitor **3\.** [**Your kid’s school is missing the tech revolution, and it’s all your fault.**](http://www.wired.com/2015/02/kids-school-missing-tech-revolution-fault/ "undefined") By Jason Tanz in Wired **4\.** [**Community courts focus on rehabilitation and compassion for non-violent offenders.**](http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2015/0110/Community-courts-let-the-punishment-fit-the-crime-compassionately "undefined") By Henry Gass in the Christian Science Monitor **5\.** [**A new ‘Uber for packages’ service is partnering with Waffle House to build a network of delivery points around the south.**](http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/24/8098759/waffle-house-roadie-delivery-app-partnership "undefined") By Amar Toor in the Verge  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3720215/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-24/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3720215/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-24/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 24","datePublished":"2015-02-24T17:01:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:05:26.258Z","description":"How farming eases the return from war, fighting sexual harassment on campus in Egypt, how parents block tech progress at school and more.","url":"https://time.com/3720215/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-24/","keywords":["Innovation","women","Veterans","College","Drugs","PTSD","war","Farming","FedEx","Tech","Schools","Startups","Egypt","Silicon Valley","Uber","sexual harassment","farms","UPS"],"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/3720215/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-february-24/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: February 24"}}]}] ```