Publication Carnegie Corporation of New York Annual Report FY2020–2021Letter from the Chairman | Report on Programs | Report on Finances | Report on Administration | Report on Investments | Trustees and Staff
Publication Carnegie Reporter Vol 14/Number 1 The Winter 2022 edition of the Carnegie Reporter magazine, “The Voting Issue,” steps into one of the sacred places in American democracy, the place where its citizens exercise their right to vote. In...
Publication K–12 Science Education in the United States: A Landscape Study for Improving the FieldTo better understand the state of K–12 science education today, Carnegie Corporation of New York commissioned Horizon Research to develop a landscape study. The report K–12 Science Education in the United States: A Landscape Study for Improving the Field assesses …
Publication Few Russians Are Anxious about Western SanctionsThe Chicago Council on Global Affairs, with support from Carnegie Corporation of New York, has published a series of opinion surveys designed to assess American and Russian public opinion on the war in Ukraine. The findings follow a previous Chicago …
Publication Majority in the U.S. Interested in Boosting Their Nuclear KnowledgeCarnegie Corporation of New York and the Chicago Council on Foreign Affairs partnered to conduct the benchmark study Majority in the U.S. Interested in Boosting Their Nuclear Knowledge, which gauges American awareness and interest in learning more about U.S. …
Publication Scan of Promising Efforts to Broaden Faculty Reward Systems to Support Societally-Impactful ResearchThe Scan of Promising Efforts to Broaden Faculty Reward Systems to Support Societally-Impactful Research outlines strategies that—by better rewarding publicly facing research—may help universities retain talented faculty, deepen public trust, and increase the impact of their research on issues of …
Publication Connecting Civic Education and a Healthy DemocracyConnecting Civic Education and a Healthy Democracy highlights the need for state-level policies that expand and improve K–12 civic learning. The report calls for greater investment in civics and features examples of how coalition building has been used to advance …
Publication Carnegie Corporation of New York Annual Report FY2022–2023Letter from the President | Report on Programs | Report on Finances | Report on Administration | Report on Investments | Trustees and Staff
Publication High School Students at Risk: The Challenge of Dropouts and PushoutsHispanic, African American and American Indian youngsters have the highest dropout rates in the country, often hovering around the 50 percent mark. The problem is particularly acute in large urban areas—among others, Chicago, Las Vegas and New York.
Publication Carnegie Corporation of New York 2009 Annual ReportThis annual report covers the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009 and includes a listing of approved grants accompanied by brief abstracts as well as reports on finances, investments and administration. The reports also provides a list of current trustees …
Publication Promoting the Health of Adolescents: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century The three parts of this book, "The Adolescent, Health, and Society," "Topical Areas for Promoting Health" and "The Future of Adolescent Health Promotion: Next Steps," offer a new framework for examining the status of adolescent health in the United States.
Publication Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts A useful survey of the burgeoning academic field of ethnic studies and the dynamics of ethnic conflicts. It offers practical advice regarding approaches which might or might not work in attenuating ethnic disputes. It is also realistic in seeking to …
Publication Sustainable Peace: The Role of the UN and Regional Organizations in Preventing Deadly Conflict This book seeks an integrative agenda for preventing deadly conflict by fostering a dynamic interplay between theory and practice. It delineates effective preventive diplomacy to keep disputes from turning into violent conflict and backs this up with a long-term approach …
Publication The Costs of Conflict: Prevention and Cure in the Global Arena When it comes to conflict resolution, is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Leading scholars lay out an analytical and methodological framework for evaluating this question, and case studies on global hotspots from Bosnia to Somalia, Rwanda, …
Publication Light Weapons and Civil Conflict: Controlling the Tools of Violence A common feature of conflict in the 1990s is death and suffering from small arms and light weapons. The global diffusion of assault rifles, machine guns, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades, which can be easily carried by an individual or transported …
Publication Opportunities Missed, Opportunities Seized: Preventive Diplomacy in the Post-Cold War World The basic logic of preventive diplomacy is unassailable. Act early to prevent disputes from escalating; reduce tensions that could lead to war; deal with today's conflicts before they become tomorrow's crises. Yet as we look at the record of these …
Publication Immigrant Students, Urban High Schools: The Challenge Continues The United States is closing the 20th century the way it began, with a large influx of immigrants who are not only reshaping the country's ethnic composition but once again challenging the nation's schools to find new and innovative ways …
Publication Carnegie Reporter Vol. 1/No. 1 In this issue: A Bright Future for Russian Higher Education. Academic Freedom in the Former Soviet Union. Between the Lions Rates a Roar of Approval. Liberal Arts for a New Millennium. Overturning Buckley. Democracy for Everyone. Narciso Matos: An Interview. …
Publication Carnegie Reporter Vol. 1/No. 3 In this issue: Beyond Census 2000: As a Nation, We are the World. Beating the Odds: Providing Education for Women and Girls in Africa. Early Childhood Education: Distance Learning for Teachers Adds a New Dimension. Sam Nunn: An Interview. Foundation …
Publication Carnegie Reporter Vol. 2/No. 2 In this issue: New Americans, Fresh Off the Presses. My Russia: One Reporter's View of Life After Communism. The Paradoxes of Russian Democracy. Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Technology. The Foundation Partnership to Strengthen African Universities. Foundation Roundup.
Publication Carnegie Reporter Vol. 4/No. 3 In this issue: Afghanistan at the Tipping Point. Small Schools in the Big City: Promising Results Validate Reform Efforts in New York City High Schools. Easing the Transition from Immigrant to Citizen. A Long Island, New York, Perspective. International Philanthropy: …
Publication Carnegie Reporter Vol. 5/No. 2 In this issue: Will Knowledge Survive? Studying the Humanities at African Universities. A Time of Crisis Means A Time to Invest in Public Higher Education by Vartan Gregorian. American Think Tanks Their Influence is on the Rise. Blacks and Latinos:Still …
Publication The Lasting Legacy of An American DilemmaCarnegie Results examines how Carnegie Corporation grantee Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 book, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy, crystallized an emerging awareness that racial discrimination and legal segregation could not endure in the U.S. Myrdal's study, according to …
Publication Carnegie Corporation in South Africa: A Difficult Past Leads to a Commitment to Change On the eve of the tenth anniversary of the first democratic elections in South Africa, Carnegie Results offers an overview of Carnegie Corporation's grantmaking in that country, revealing how the foundation's support of efforts focused on a post-apartheid government were …
Publication America's Literacy Challenge: Teaching Adolescents to Read to Learn This edition of Carnegie Results reviews the Advancing Literacy program, which focuses on improving the literacy of students in grades 4-12. Though the effort was only begun in 2003, it has already made important inroads in tackling the challenge of …