Citation:	Fong, Kelley, and Mary G. Visher. Fast Forward - A Case Study of Two Community College Programs Designed to Accelerate Students Through Developmental Math. May. MDRC, 2013.
Program:	Urban and Higher Education

Community colleges face significant challenges retaining their diverse population of students and helping them progress to graduation. A key barrier is the developmental (or remedial) coursework in reading, writing, and/or mathematics to which a majority of entering students are referred. These lengthy sequences — often required for college-level work — can be daunting, and many students leave college before completing their developmental requirements, let alone attaining a credential. Developmental math, in particular, is a substantial stumbling block to college completion.

To support colleges as they address these challenges, Lumina Foundation for Education launched a national initiative, Achieving the Dream, in 2004. Today, Achieving the Dream is a nonprofit reform network working with nearly 200 colleges nationwide. Many Achieving the Dream colleges and others are experimenting with ways to reform developmental education. Gaining momentum are "acceleration" strategies, which modify the structure and/or pedagogy of developmental math courses to help students move more quickly toward college-level coursework. This report presents a case study of acceleration programs at two Achieving the Dream colleges: Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, Texas.

Faculty at Broward developed a model called "Math Redesign" that compresses the traditional sixteen-week developmental math courses into eight weeks, so that students can complete two levels of developmental math in a single semester. The model also includes collaborative problem-solving during class and computer-assisted instruction outside of class. At Tarrant County, faculty divided each developmental math course into three modules, in a program called "ModMath." Through a more fine-grained placement process, students may be able to skip content that they have already mastered. During class, students work at their own pace on computers using an instructional software package, while the instructor works with students individually. The self-paced nature of ModMath potentially allows students to complete more than three modules per semester.

Citation:

Deutsch, Abigail. I Love My Librarian Award. An Award That Recognizes Great Librarians Also Highlights the Central Role of Libraries in Communities Across America. Publication.  New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2013. Print.

The “Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librar­ian Award” publicizes librarians’ abilities to improve their communities and—by highlighting the achievements of the winners—in­spire other librarians to boost their own performance.  Since the award’s creation in 2008, it has helped the public to better understand the role of libraries and librarians by focusing on the winning librarians and the mosaic of challenges and joys they face—as well as the personal and professional attributes that distinguish effective librarians.

Citation:	New Educational Foundations. Publication. Spring ed. 2013. Print
Program:	Urban and Higher Education

New Educational Foundations, a refereed online journal of ideas and dialogue, has
been established as a forum for independent-minded educators, adminstrators, and researchers.
We favor no particular ideological bent. We unanimously reject the cultures of complaint and compliance; our audience will be professionals who question conventional thinking and the roar of the crowd.

A call to realize the full power of the Common Core by redesigning and reshaping schools to support teachers and maximize key resources, rather than implementing partial solutions.

Citation:

Carnegie Corporation of New York 2012 Annual Report. Rep. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2013. Print.

The 2012 annual report includes a listing of our approved grants and reports on finances, investments, and administration. The report also provides a listing of members of the board of trustees and staff. The foundation's fiscal year ends September 30.

The relationship between the U.S. and the Persian Gulf states as they face democratic transitions in the Arab world as well as security challenges in the Gulf, is addressed in a new issue brief published by Carnegie Corporation grantee the Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.

Senior Fellow Richard LeBaron evaluates the reaction in the Gulf states differently to the rapid political change in the region. The looming threat of Iran attaining nuclear weapons has brought greater urgency to efforts to enhance regional security, and is complicated by distrust in the Gulf over the long-term durability of the US commitment to Gulf security.

LeBaron also proposes an agenda as the basis for the United States and the Gulf states to reexamine and renew their partnership in the context of a changing region.

The report indicates that the $680 naturalization fee has become a major barrier to applying for U.S. citizenship for legal immigrants in low-wage jobs, a group that overwhelmingly desires to become American.

Citation:	Meissner, Doris, Donald Kerwin, Muzzafar Chishti, and Claire Bergeron. Immigration Enforcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machinery. Rep. Washignton, DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2013. Print.
Subprogram:	Immigrant Civic Integration

A detailed analysis of the current immigration enforcement system that was set in motion with passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986. The report traces the evolution of the system, particularly in the post-9/11 era, in terms of budgets, personnel, enforcement actions and technology. It examines individual programs and results, ranging from Secure Communities and 287(g) to deportations, detention, post-9/11 visa screening and new federal databases, explaining how they have intersected — in some ways by deliberate design, in others by happenstance — to create a complex, interconnected, cross-agency system.

The Center for Preventive Action surveys leading experts to rank conflict prevention priorities based on their potential impact on U.S. interests and their likelihood of occurring in the coming year.

Citation:	Theroux, Karen. Beyond Boundaries: A Promising New Model for Security and Global Development. Rep. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2013. Print.
Program:	International Peace and Security
Subprogram:	Nuclear Security

In 2007, a team of international security experts and researchers at the Henry L. Stimson Center launched an initiative to build an effective model for sustainable nonproliferation of biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons. The project represented an exciting and innovative way of thinking about security: a “dual-use” approach that operated at the nexus of the security and development communities. The team’s ingenuity paid off. After less than six years, the Stimson Center is phasing out its involvement in the successful program, which will now be government funded. This Results shows how a novel idea, supported with modest grants from Carnegie Corporation, went on to secure millions in support from international sources, achieving real-world policy wins.

Citation:

Carnegie Corporation of New York. Advertisement. New York Times 25 Nov. 2012: n. pag. Print

Andrew Carnegie Birthday advertisement.  "Working to Make a Better World for Over 100 Years."

Inside: Lincoln’s Legacy: Land-Grant Colleges and Universities. The How and Why of Engaging Russia. How Higher Ed Visionaries Are Pointing Students Toward the Future. Designing a School Where All Students Will Be Successful. What Is Conservative About Comprehensive Immigration Reform? And more.

The New America Foundation paper argues that the absence of basic knowledge management in our legislature is a critical weakness. Congress struggles to make policy on complex issues while it equally lacks the wherewithal to effectively compete on substance in today’s 24 hour news cycle. Congress is not so much venal and corrupt as it is incapacitated and obsolete. And, in its present state, it cannot serve the needs of American democracy in the 21^st Century.

The Institute for Science and International Security analyzes the IAEA’s latest report on the implementation of NPT safeguards in Iran and the status compliance with Security Council resolutions.

Keeping Irreplaceables in D.C. Public Schools, provides a deeper look at retention strategies discussed in The Irreplaceables and how they're playing out in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS). The paper explains how DCPS has moved toward smarter teacher retention, mainly by raising expectations and removing consistently low-performing teachers. The report also shows that DPCS is missing some opportunities to make even more progress.

Citation:	Sumption, Madeleine and Sarah Flamm. 2012. The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute.
Program:	Democracy and Civic Integration
Subprogram:	Immigrant Civic Integration

Beyond imparting political and social rights, naturalization appears to confer economic gains for immigrants in the United States, with a wage premium of at least 5 percent – even after accounting for the fact that naturalized immigrants have higher levels of education, better language skills, and more work experience in the United States than noncitizens. More than 8 million legal immigrants in the United States are eligible to apply for citizenship but have not done so. Naturalization rates in the United States are lower than most other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, the report notes.

Citation:	Nasaw, David. "The Continuing Relevance of Andrew Carnegie’s Legacy." Yale Global Constitutional Seminar. Peace Palace, The Hague, Netherlands. 30 Aug. 2012. Lecture.
Author:	David Nasaw

David Nasaw, author of Andrew Carnegie (The Penguin Press, 2006), was the featured speaker at a seminar on August 30^th  at the Peace Palace in The Hague, reflecting on the centennials of Carnegie Corporation of New York, a philanthropic foundation, and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an international think tank.  The event also marked the eve of the 100^th anniversary of the construction of the Peace Palace, which was funded by Andrew Carnegie as a symbol of his goal of achieving world peace.

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Katz, Lee Michael. StoryCorps: Sharing the Stories of American Lives. Rep. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2012. Print.

A detailed report of how Carnegie Corporation’s early funding for StoryCorps helped initiate the project, giving it a “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” which in turn attracted the support of additional funders; a second grant some years later enabled the organization to help New Yorkers reflect on the 10^th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks.

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Backgrounder:  Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Investments in Nuclear Security. Rep. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2012. Print.

Backgrounder:  Carnegie Corporation of New York and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Investments in Nuclear Security.