A Note About the Carnegie Reporter
Why do we publish what we do? At Carnegie Corporation we know we can’t effect the changes we are focused on in education and international relations simply by giving grants. We fashioned this... more
Vo. 5 / No. 2 / Spring 2009
Table of Contents
A Letter from the President
In 1967, California Governor Ronald Reagan had a bone to pick with the University of California. He suggested that the university was competing too much with the likes of Stanford University and... more
Will Knowledge Survive?
In the heart of the University of Ghana’s Legon campus, in a gully alongside a road, sits a one-story building, three basketball courts long. More recently constructed than the surrounding... more
American Think Tanks
Think tanks as conveners: Barack Obama speaking at an “Opportunity 08” Tax Policy Center event sponsored by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute. When Rep. Jane Harman, a key... more
Blacks and Latinos in the U.S.
Creating pathways to educational opportunity and to civic participation are two top priorities for the Corporation’s National Program. In this essay, Roberto Suro, a professor at the University of... more
A Perspective on School Reform and Human Capital
Talia Milgrom-Elcott is a Program Officer in Carnegie Corporation’s Urban Education program, focusing on human capital and data and accountability. Prior to joining the Corporation staff, Talia was... more
A Quiet Revolution
Carnegie Corporation’s decades-long history of grantwork in Africa has tackled issues ranging from apartheid to AIDS research, public libraries to public health. In the late 1990s the Corporation... more
Recent Books
Making Modern Muslims The Politics of Islamic Education in Southeast Asia Since the 9/11 attacks in the United States and the October 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia (which resulted in the... more
Recent Events
Keio University Celebrates an Anniversary Tokyo’s Keio University, the first private university in Japan, turned 150 in November 2008. To commemorate this landmark, the university presented... more
Foundation Roundup
Request a free subscription to the print edition “Vaccine Bonds” Invest in a Child’s Welfare The International Finance Facility for Immunization (IFFIm) will sell bonds in Japan to... more
Appreciating Our Nation of Immigrants
On February 5, 2009, General Colin Powell delivered an address at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at the City University of New York. This is a condensed version of that speech. I... more
Advice to the President
Carnegie Corporation of New York has made a marketplace of ideas from top analysts easily accessible to the nation’s policymakers. Launched in October 2008 with reports for candidates running for... more
Individual Foundation Grants
The grants listed here illustrate the diversity of activity, geography and funding arrangements within the Partnership. For a complete listing go to www.foundation-partnership.org and click on... more
