| Century Foundation Author Offers Insight Into U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control
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2/3/2010
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Earlier this week, U.S. and Russian arms-control negotiators
came to an "agreement in principle" on the first nuclear-arms-reduction treaty in nearly two decades.
The deal would bring down deployed nuclear warheads and sharply limit the number of missiles and
bombers that can deliver them. Download the Press Release.
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| Century Foundation Fellow Geneive Abdo Testifies Before Committee On Foreign Affairs
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2/2/2010
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As the February 11 demonstrations in Iran approach, Century Foundation Fellow Geneive Abdo will testify before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia on the topic of America’s role vis-ŕ-vis the Iranian Political Reform Movement. According to Abdo, “The Obama Administration should call attention to the regime's human rights violations, as it is likely the security forces will use all their might to crush the demonstrations on this day. By drawing attention to the degree of violence by the regime, the Obama administration could highlight the fact that Iran's leaders are running an un-Islamic state.” Continue reading the media advisory.
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| Digital Promise Project Reaches Goal for Creation of National Center For Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies
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1/27/2010
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After more than a decade of nationwide effort, the Digital Promise Project has achieved an essential goal the creation of the National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies. The Digital Promise Project had its beginnings as a project sponsored by The Century Foundation. This year the Department of Education, as provided by their 2010 appropriations legislation, will make available the initial funding required to launch the National Center. In the words of the Centers authorizing legislation, The purpose of the Center shall be to support a comprehensive research and development program to harness the increasing capability of advanced information and digital technologies to improve all levels of learning and education, formal and informal, in order to provide Americans with the knowledge and skills needed to compete in the global economy
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| Century Foundation Releases New Report on Russia-U.S. Nuclear Arms Control
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12/2/2009
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Download the Press Release.
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| Turnaround Schools That Work: Moving Beyond Separate but Equal
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11/12/2009
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Nov. 12, 2009, Washington, DC — Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s far-reaching efforts to transform the country’s lowest-performing schools into successful ones don’t reach far enough, according to a new report from The Century Foundation. In “Turnaround Schools That Work: Moving Beyond Separate but Equal,” TCF Senior Fellow Richard Kahlenberg details why “turnaround” approaches that focus on changing principals and teachers but fail to address issues related to parents and students have fallen short of expectations. In the report, he also looks at charter schools, such as Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP) schools and the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) Promise Academies. He finds that, while these schools have been highly successful with low income students, the models would not likely be successfully employed to improve student achievement in the nation’s five thousand lowest-performing public schools, which are the focus of Duncan’s current efforts.
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| Eight Reasons Not to Tie Teacher Pay to Standardized Test Results: A New Issue Brief from The Century Foundation
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10/28/2009
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Should teachers be judged by how well their students perform on standardized test? The U.S. Department of Education has determined that the answer is “yes.” In the proposed rules for the Race to the Top Fund—the federal program that is seeking to distribute $4.3 billion in aid to states that are implementing innovative and ambitious plans for increasing student achievement—Education Secretary Arne Duncan insists that in order to receive these funds, states should be ready evaluate and compensate teachers based in part on how well their students perform on standardized tests.
In a new issue brief, Eight Reasons Not to Tie Teacher Pay to Standardized Test Results released today by The Century Foundation, Fellow Gordon MacInnes points out why this plan doesn’t make the grade.
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| Century Foundation Senior Fellow Jeff Laurenti Says Nobel Prize Award to Obama “Bookends” 2002 Carter Award, Marking U.S. Policy Reversals
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10/9/2009
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The Century Foundation’s Jeffrey Laurenti, senior fellow in international affairs, drew a link between today’s award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama and the Nobel committee’s granting it to former president Jimmy Carter in 2002.
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| Century Foundation Launches insideiran.org to Provide Insiders' View of Political Crisis in Iran
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9/24/2009
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The Century Foundation today launched
insideiran.org, a special project taking readers inside
the political crisis in Iran. The centerpiece of the project is a Web site,
www.insideiran.org, which features
articles, analysis, and the latest media reports from some of the world's
most prominent Iranian scholars, journalists, and bloggers who are either
inside the country or who live temporarily outside. The project will also
feature a newsletter than can be delivered by email to those who sign up.
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| Peter A. A. Berle Environmental Integrity Award Winners Announced
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4/29/2009
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The Century Foundation, in cooperation with the National Audubon Society,
the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Environmental Law
Section of the New York State Bar Association, and former colleagues of Peter A. A. Berle, today
announced the winners of the first Peter A. A. Berle Environmental Integrity Award. James E.
Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), and David Foster,
executive director of the Blue Green Alliance, are the first recipients of this award, which is intended
to recognize demonstrated courage and integrity in defense of the environment by public officials and
private citizens in the United States. Download Press Release.
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| Hart, Matlock Hail London Nuclear Arms Commitment In Release Of The Century Foundation Russia Policy Report
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4/1/2009
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April 1, 2009, New York, N.Y. — “Today’s meeting in London between Presidents Obama and Medvedev marks an urgently needed change of course in U.S.-Russian relations,” said Gary Hart, former U.S. Senator (D-CO), and Jack F. Matlock, Jr., President Reagan’s last ambassador to the Soviet Union. They issued the statement as they released the policy recommendations of The Century Foundation Working Group on U.S. Policy toward Russia, which they co-chair. Download the release.
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