Carnegie Corporation in the News
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February 8, 2012
Obama proposes money for math, science education
Chicago Tribune
President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed $80 million in new government funding for a program to boost science and math education in U.S. schools.
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February 8, 2012
Obama announces $80 million education plan at White House Science Fair
The Hill
President Obama took Tuesday's White House Science Fair as an opportunity to announce his multimillion-dollar plan to improve the nation's science and math education programs, a move he said that...
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February 7, 2012
Obama Announces Education Initiatives at White House Science Fair
The New York Times
President Obama for a second time converted the White House public rooms into a science fair on Tuesday, and announced new federal and private-sector initiatives to encourage “a nation of tinkerers...
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February 7, 2012
New Obama plan to help math, science teacher prep
The Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama called on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new funding to improve math and science education, an effort he said would be crucial to the nation's long-term...
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February 7, 2012
Obama Renews $80 Million Bid for Science, Math Teachers
Bloomberg
President Barack Obama said he’ll request $80 million in education funding for training math and science teachers to help the U.S. stay competitive in world commerce, reviving a budget request last...
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February 7, 2012
Obama proposes money for math, science education
Reuters
Obama, who is running for re-election in November at a time when the economy is voters' top concern, has sought to emphasize math and science education as one of the keys to a robust economic...
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February 7, 2012
Obama to announce $100 million plan to train new educators
Washington Post
President Obama will use the backdrop of a White House science fair Tuesday to highlight a nationwide shortage of math and science teachers and unveil a plan to invest $100 million to help train...
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February 2, 2012
Rise aims to shine more brightly on African sector
Times Higher Education (UK)
The Regional Initiative in Science and Education (Rise) seeks to address the chronic lack of qualified lecturers in sub-Saharan universities. Staff running the project said that almost all the...
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February 1, 2012
Digital archive project gets major funding
Sage Nonprofit Solutions
The Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation recently gave $1 million to the Carnegie Hall of New York in conjunction with a $1 million challenge grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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January 31, 2012
Big cheer for small schools
The New York Post
Small public-high schools in the city that are open to kids at all academic levels have strikingly increased students’ prospects of graduating, a new report has found.
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January 31, 2012
Get Schooled New study out of New York: Smaller high schools graduate more and better prepared students
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
School and class size are one of those areas in education where the research and common sense can diverge. Parents and teachers feel at an organic level that fewer students in a class or a school...
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January 31, 2012
Small Schools Spur Academic Growth, Says MDRC Report
Ed Week
A new report by the New York-based education & social research organization MDRC indicates that students in 105 of New York City's 123 so-called "small schools of choice" grew more academically and...
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January 31, 2012
City Students at Small Public High Schools Are More Likely to Graduate, Study Says
The New York Times
New York City teenagers attending small public high schools with about 100 students per grade were more likely to graduate than their counterparts at larger schools, according to new findings from a...
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January 27, 2012
Arab Spring Draws Academic Attention
Campus Watch
When uprisings began steamrolling through Arab countries about one year ago, revolutionaries saw the opportunity to transform the region's politics and society.
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January 20, 2012
AT&T Contributes $500,000 for UTeach Program to Train Math and Science Teachers
Business Wire (Canda)
The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) announced Thursday that AT&T has contributed $500,000 to support the highly regarded UTeach program to train math and science teachers on five...
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January 13, 2012
New Study Ranks Countries on Security of Materials That Fuel Nuclear Arms
The New York Times
The 32 nations with materials that can fuel atom bombs are typically mum on security, which looks to the public like a closed world of barbed wire and armed guards. Behind the scenes, atomic insiders...
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January 13, 2012
Elliott School researchers awarded $2-million Carnegie grant
The GW Hatchet
The Elliott School of International Affairs’ research on the Middle East, Eurasia and aspiring world powers received a $2-million boost Wednesday from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
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January 13, 2012
Philanthropist Group Gives Holiday Gift To Qns. Library
Times Newsweekly
Christmas was especially merry for the Queens Borough Public Library (QBPL) as it received a $1.5 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York designed to soften the impact of previous...
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January 10, 2012
Uganda: Girls Still Missing Out in the North
The Observer (Uganda)
Dr Jane Ayikoru wakes up every morning to treat patients at St Francis hospital, better known as Nsambya hospital. However, only a few of the patients she sees ever pay attention to what she went...
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December 9, 2011
34 STEM Education Programs Awarded
U.S. News & World Report
Thirty-four innovative STEM programs nationwide will get some help from big corporate backers as part of the Ashoka Changemakers Partnering for Excellence competition. Organizations and companies...
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