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By Elisabeth Stock
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If you ask an adult, “What is the education system?” they’ll typically respond, “Well, there is the superintendent, the principals, the teachers union, and so on.” But if you ask a student who helps them learn, they’ll say, “Oh that’s easy—my teachers and family.” Yet education in our country does not support students, teachers, and families functioning as a system.
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By Michael J. Petrilli
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“Parental engagement” is one of those self-evidently appealing ideas for improving education. Who doesn’t want to engage parents? What child isn’t well served by more of it? Yet doing it well is hard, because it means shooting straight with parents about how their daughters and sons are performing, and committing to making hard changes and expending real resources to help those children do better. It’s not a program. It’s a promise: to be honest and do right by all kids.
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By Claudia Frittelli
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Nineteen Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program alumni based at universities in the Northeast (and Delaware) participated in a roundtable discussion to share their perspectives during a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program Stakeholder Forum, which took place at the Corporation’s New York City office on October 4, 2018.
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By Claudia Frittelli
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Tertiary education enrollment in sub-Saharan Africa nearly doubled from approximately 4.5 million in 2000 to 8.8 million in 2016 (UNESCO UIS). To meet the needs of new and expanding universities, several African governments aim to increase the number of doctoral graduates who can become qualified staff. African universities have deployed innovative models of academic diaspora linkages in building the next generation of academics.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on September 13, 2018, Carnegie Corporation of New York's Board of Trustees approved 47 grants totaling $35,762,000. Brief descriptions of each Board-approved grant are provided below.
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By Stephen J. Del Rosso
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This philanthropic indifference to the broader societal impact of developments in quantum is not only shortsighted, it’s baffling. Quantum developments could transform our lives in mind-boggling ways.
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By Adrienne Faraci
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Make National Voter Registration Day one of your Favorite National Holidays!
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By Adrienne Faraci
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As Americans prepare to go to the polls for the 2018 midterm elections, a new report from the National Academy of Sciences highlights the threat of disruption from cyberattacks on electoral infrastructure across the country.
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McCain's bipartisan leadership in the U.S. Senate was instrumental in several key issues in which Carnegie Corporation of New York has invested for more than two decades
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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The board of trustees, president, staff, and the entire Carnegie Corporation of New York community mourn the death of Kofi Annan, an exemplary leader, a man of peace, a former trustee of the Corporation, and a friend and trusted advisor to many at our foundation.
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By Claudia Frittelli
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Adam Habib discussed the 2015–2017 #FeesMustFall student protests in South Africa at the Carnegie Corporation of New York on August 1, 2018.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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In June 2018, Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded three grants for innovative projects, led by African institutions, to collect and share conflict data.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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They represented roughly 50 countries of origin and a wide range of immigration stories, but on July 18, the 200 people gathered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston shared one unforgettable moment: they stood side by side, holding small American flags, and they became naturalized United States citizens.
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By Vartan Gregorian
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We know America is not perfect, but we see it as perfectible. For us, America is not just a past; it is also a future. It is not just an actuality — it is always a potentiality. America’s greatness lies in the fact that all its citizens, both new and old, have an opportunity to work for that potentiality, for its unfinished agenda.
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By Celeste Ford
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Carnegie Corporation of New York released its annual list of Great Immigrants today comprised of 38 naturalized citizens who enrich the fabric of American culture and strengthen our democracy through their lives, their work, and their example.
By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Great Immigrants: Social media toolkit with videos, infographics, and banners.
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By Claudia Frittelli
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Past Carnegie African Diaspora program fellows convened at the Corporation this past May to share perspectives and provide feedback on their fellowship experiences at African universities.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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The African nation-state is in a period of profound transformation, according to African experts interviewed for episode 8 of Carnegie Corporation’s Peacebuilders podcast series. In this episode: Alagaw Ababu Kifle (African Leadership Centre), Pamela Mbabazi (Institute for Peace and Security Studies in Addis Ababa), and Sagal Abshir (Somali lawyer and former government advisor).
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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At its quarterly meeting held in New York City on June 14, 2018, Carnegie Corporation of New York's Board of Trustees approved 40 grants totaling $25,502,000. Brief descriptions of each Board-approved grant are provided below.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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Displacement has become a common feature of life in East Africa over the past decade, leading to a wide range of creative solutions, according to Caroline Njuki, senior program coordinator at the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s regional secretariat on forced displacement and mixed migration. Njuki discusses the socioeconomic integration of displaced populations in this seventh episode of the Peacebuilders podcast series.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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As Africa’s newest state, South Sudan was meant to be an example of what cooperation between the international community and African political actors could achieve. According to the African experts interviewed in this sixth episode of the Peacebuilders podcast series, South Sudan’s devastating descent into civil conflict has instead transformed the young country into a laboratory for competing security solutions and a humanitarian catastrophe with no clear end.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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The violence that attended Kenya’s 2007 elections shocked the nation’s media as well as the larger society. According to African experts interviewed in this fifth episode of Peacebuilders, Kenyan media has become both more responsible as a result and more oriented toward reaching ethnic-group audiences rather than national ones. Whether this will lead to an increase or decrease in the importance of ethnicity for Kenyan politics remains to be seen.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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The African Union continues to play an important role in enforcing peace and security on the continent, but the political momentum is shifting toward “coalitions of the willing” and regional economic commissions, according to Africa experts interviewed in Nairobi and Addis Ababa for episode four of Peacebuilders, a nine-part series produced by Carnegie Corporation of New York for its podcast Diffusion.
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By Carnegie Corporation of New York
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The militarization of policing and counterterrorism operations in East and West Africa has chiefly multiplied the numbers of people seeking vengeance against the state, contend regional experts Nanjala Nyabola and Obi Anyadike in the third episode of Peacebuilders, a Carnegie Corporation podcast series. The militarization of regional security policy, partly in response to foreign funding agendas, is abetting insecurity and encouraging corruption from Somalia to Nigeria.
