January 29, 2012

Carnegie Hall Receives $2 Million in Major Support for New Digital Archives Project

$1 Million Challenge Grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York and Matching Gift from Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation Enables Carnegie Hall To Launch Long-Range Project Digitizing Archival...
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January 23, 2012

Grant to Provide Fundraising Training, Other Advancement Initiatives for 19 African Institutions

The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) has received a two-year, US$450,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to provide resources and training in fundraising and...
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January 11, 2012

New Index Reports World's Nuclear Stocks Remain Unsecured

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) today released a first-of-its-kind, public baseline assessment of the status of nuclear materials security conditions in 176 countries. The NTI Nuclear Materials...
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January 11, 2012

Doomsday Clock Moves 1 Minute Closer To Midnight

Faced with inadequate progress on nuclear weapons reduction and proliferation, and continuing inaction on climate change, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), at a symposium in Washington, DC...
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January 11, 2012

$2 Million Grant to The George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs Supports Programs Addressing Pressing Global Issues

Carnegie Corporation of New York today announced a $2 million award to the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University.  The award supports research and...
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January 9, 2012

Putin and the Uses of History

“Using history, Putin has scaled his role as case officer up to a national level,” write Carnegie Corporation grantees Fiona Hill and Clifford G. Gaddy in the current issue of The National...
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November 18, 2011

Carnegie Corporation Grant for World Affairs Councils of America’s Understanding Muslim Societies Series

The World Affairs Councils of America has been awarded a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York for a new Engage America Series entitled, Understanding Muslim...
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November 14, 2011

Univ of Indiana Preparing Teachers in Crucial Disciplines

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The Carnegie Corporation of New York this year launched an initiative to recruit, prepare and retain 100,000 skilled STEM teachers over the next 10 years. This national movement, known as 100Kin10,...
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November 7, 2011

Monterey Institute and Center for Nonproliferation Studies Receive $1.2 Million to Support Nonproliferation Education and Training

The Monterey Institute and its James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) today announced they have received grant awards totaling approximately $1.2 million from Carnegie Corporation of...
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September 15, 2011

New Report Offers Evidence that Classroom-Based Assessments Can Improve the Writing Skills of American Students

Effective assessments are promising tools to help ensure that students write well enough to meet grade-level demands, according to a new report from Carnegie Corporation of New York, released by the...
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March 30, 2011

Center for Global Affairs Scenarios Initiative Receives Carnegie Support

The New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (NYU-SCPS) has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to continue funding its Center for Global...
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March 16, 2011

Swat Valley a Year Later. Through the Eyes of News21-Trained Journalist

A year after Gen. David Petraeus and the Pakistani Army deemed the counterinsurgency effort in the Swat Valley as a monumental success, News21-trained journalist Tara McKelvey reports that things on...
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March 11, 2011

Envision announces $175,000 planning grant to create an innovative STEM school design organization

Envision Excellence in STEM Education (Envision) today announced the receipt of a $175,000 planning grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to create an innovative STEM school design organization...
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March 7, 2011

Shultz, Perry, Kissinger, Nunn Call For New, Safer and More Stable Form of Deterrence

In an op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz, former Defense Secretary William J. Perry, former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and former Senator Sam...
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March 5, 2011

New York Times Column: College the Easy Way

Bob Herbert comments on a provocative Carnegie-funded study and book, “Academically Adrift,” which says that for a large portion of the nation’s seemingly successful undergrads, college barely...
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February 17, 2011

The Mind Trust now accepting new Education Entrepreneur

The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based education reform non-profit supported in part by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York, has announced it is now accepting applications for its...
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February 10, 2011

Choice and Structure are keys to more college grads, argues grantee.

As states consider new legislation and policies to increase college completion, Carnegie Corporation grantee Complete College America argues that several essential tests must be applied to determine...
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February 4, 2011

Carnegie Scholar on “The Muslim Brotherhood After Mubarak”

Writing in Foreign Affairs, Carrie Rosefsky Wickham, a Carnegie Scholar  and Associate Professor of Political Science at Emory University, suggests that portraying the Muslim Brotherhood as...
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February 2, 2011

Director Reports on Egypt's Library of Alexandria

Ismail Serageldin, Director of the Library of Alexandria and a Carnegie Corporation grantee, issued an open letter to friends and supporters of Bibliotheca Alexandrina To our friends around the...
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January 31, 2011

Report Reveals 1 in 10 American Students Are English Language Learners

Language acquisition is the key to individual students’ educational success and to the nation’s future economic prosperity. More than one in ten of all preK-12 students in the U.S.—totaling over...
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