Public Impact, a Carnegie Corporation grantee, has published an infographic to demonstrate how the United States can reach all students with excellent teachers, offering them more pay while still remaining within budget. The infographic depicts how this can be achieved while also creating collaborative teams on which all educators can contribute to excellence, engage in meaningful learning, and pursue career advancement.

The grantee defines an Opportunity Culture, as depicted in the infographic, as when all teachers have career opportunities dependent upon their excellence, leadership, and student impact. And, when advancement allows more pay and greater reach. Most important, in an Opportunity Culture, students have a greater chance to succeed: an Opportunity Culture for all.

Citation:	Theroux, Karen. Bringing New Life to South Africa's Libraries. Rep. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2012. Print.
Author:	Karen Theroux
Program:	Higher Education and Libraries in Africa

Carnegie Corporation’s African library program built and revitalized public libraries in South Africa to serve as model centers of learning, communication and technology.  This issue of Carnegie Review tells the story of investments to strengthen libraries in post-apartheid South African to better equip them to deliver services to from literacy programs to adult education previously disenfranchised groups.

Citation:

Carnegie Corporation of New York 2011 Annual Report. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2012. Print

Carnegie Corporation’s most recent annual report covers the fiscal year ending September 30, 2011 and includes a listing of approved grants accompanied by brief abstracts as well as reports on finances, investments and administration. The report also provides a list of current trustees and staff.

Citation:	Theroux, Karen. The Center for Public Integrity: Defending Democracy with a Better Informed Citizenry. Rep. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2012. Print.
Author:	Karen Theroux

For more than 20 years, the Center for Public Integrity, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit, nonpartisan news organizations, has produced original investigative journalism about significant public issues, revealing abuses of power and corruption and striving to make institutional power more transparent and accountable. The Center disseminates in-depth investigative reports on a range of government accountability and ethics-related issues, from campaign finance to climate change, tobacco smuggling to special-interest lobbying.

Citation:	Eliciting and Applying Local Research Knowledge for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding. Concept Note. Ottawa and New York: International Development Research Centre and Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2012. Print
Subprogram:	States at Risk

Eliciting and Applying Local Research Knowledge for Peacebuilding and Statebuilding is a joint research initiative which seeks to increase the level of recognition and utilization of local peacebuilding and statebuilding expertise and capacity in post-conflict contexts where challenges are most acute, with a specific emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa.

Citation:	Toward A Euro-Atlantic Security Community. Rep. Washington, DC:  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012. Print.
Program:	International Peace and Security

The Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative’s report argues that a serious "deficit of trust" in security issues is placing the entire region under strain. Bred from old twentieth-century divisions, this distrust leaves the region dangerously ill prepared to handle the challenges of the twenty-first century.

Immigration has been instrumental in U.S. history in promoting economic development and increasing the range of options open to people. Millions of immigrants have come to America in search of opportunities to improve their lives and to raise their families. They have taken great risks and worked hard to ensure a better and freer future for themselves and their families. When government is bound by what F. A. Hayek called the “constitution of liberty,” people will be free to choose provided they do not harm others. A just government is one that protects life, liberty, and property. How does immigration fit into this “system of natural liberty”?

Before the rise of the modern welfare state, immigrants had little to depend on except themselves and their families and friends. Civil society was robust. Today, the demise of limited government has altered the relation between the individual and the state. People, including immigrants, are much more dependent on the state. In this institutional setting, what are the implications for immigration? Do immigrants still enhance America’s future or do they pose a threat? What type of immigration policy should America adopt that will be just and good for America? What institutions support a liberal immigration policy and which ones undermine freedom? Those and related questions are explored in depth in this issue of the Cato Journal.

Citation:	Gregorian, Vartan. "Libraries Are Stations of Hope." Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Awards Ceremony. New York Times Building, New York. 8 Dec. 2011. Speech.
Author:	Vartan Gregorian

Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York, spoke to more than 300 attendees at the 2011 Carnegie Corporation of New York/New York Times I Love My Librarian Award Ceremony in New York City recently. The program, administered by the American Library Association's Campaign for America's Libraries, honored ten librarians who were recognized for service to their communities, schools and campuses. More than 1,700 library patrons nominated a librarian.

Citation:	Deutsch, Abigail. Women in Higher Education. Rep. New York: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2011. Print.
Author:	Abigail Deutsch

Carnegie Corporation was among the first foundations to pursue strategies to open the doors of colleges and universities to women.  In 1959, when its officers decided to focus on the “Better Use of Human Resources,” they considered a key element of this concern the “better use of woman power.” Over the next several years, it tried myriad methods. Its programs encouraged older women to return to school and younger women to approach their education more thoughtfully. Carnegie Corporation also recognized the problematic dearth of women in the higher ranks of administration and faculty, and supported programs designed to increase their numbers. In the mid-1950’s—the midst of the baby boom—Carnegie Corporation was also pondering the field of education more generally.  Among the foundation’s more innovative approaches was a project known as the “Minnesota Plan” which focused on assisting young women in planning for the “multiple role lives” they would probably lead; harnessing the University of Minnesota’s facilities to help women maintain intellectual and technical capacities while they raised children; and enabling “the older intelligent woman” to contribute to society.

Citation:	Preventive Priorities Survey: 2012. Rep. Washington, DC: Council on Froeign Relations, 2012. Print.
Program:	International Peace and Security
Subprogram:	U.S. Relations with Pivotal Powers

The Preventive Priorities Survey (PPS) is intended to help inform the U.S. policy community about the relative urgency and importance of competing conflict prevention demands. The Center for Preventive Action asked a targeted group of government officials, academics, and experts to comment confidentially on a list of contingencies that could plausibly occur in 2012.

Citation:	Lindow, Megan. Weaving Success: Voices of Change in African Higher Education. New York: Institute of International Education, 2011. Print
Author:	Megan Lindow
Program:	Higher Education and Libraries in Africa

Weaving Success recounts the impact of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa and provides a detailed look at key issues in African higher education and highlights the transformative processes that are shaping the future of African colleges and universities.   

The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa was an unprecedented collaboration between seven major U.S. foundations to support African higher education institutions in building capacity and training the next generation of scholars, public servants and entrepreneurs. The ten-year, $440 million initiative was directly and indirectly responsible for improving conditions for over four million students at 379 African colleges and universities.  

The initiative spanned a decade, from 2000-2010, and served nine African countries: Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda. The PHEA foundations included: Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Kresge Foundation

Inside: Andrew Carnegie’s timeless mission. Responsibility to Protect. South Africa’s Libraries. Encouraging Legal Permanent Residents to Naturalize. Transforming Education through Math and Science. Great J-Schools. Advancing a Legacy in the U.S. and on the Global Stage. And more.

Citation:	Graham, S., Harris, K., and Hebert, M. A. (2011). Informing writing: The benefits of formative assessment. A Carnegie Corporation Time to Act report. Washington, DC: Alliance for Excellent Education.
Author:	Steve Graham, Karen R. Harris, and Michael Hebert
Program:	Adolescent Literacy
Program:	Urban and Higher Education

The report uses the powerful statistical method of meta-analysis to determine that classroom-based writing assessmentscan help students improve their writing skills. Additionally, these “formative” assessments, as they are called, allow teachers to gauge the effectiveness of their instructional practices, modify instruction as needed, and provide students with feedback on writing strengths and areas in need of improvement.

Citation:	Theroux, Karen, Police Executive Research Forum: Freeing Local Police from Immigration Enforcement. A Carnegie Results Publication (Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2011)
Author:	Karen Theroux
Program:	Democracy and Civic Integration

Dealing with immigration issues is one of the most critical and frustrating challenges police and sheriffs’ departments currently face. To solve this problem and take some pressure off their members, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) has conducted research and met with police leaders to frame immigration policy recommendations not only to guide local authorities, but to inform Congress and the Obama administration as well.

Using local police to enforce federal immigration law creates a climate of fear and division, according to PERF. Carnegie Corporation, which encourages the integration of immigrants into civic life, has supported PERF’s efforts to assess enforcement practices, come up with more useful policies and make the problem part of the national debate. This issue of Carnegie Results describes how PERF gives policymakers and the public much-needed information about the effects of immigration laws, which, according to Geri Mannion, program director of the Corporation’s U.S. Democracy and Special Opportunities Fund, “have had real consequences for many individuals—those who are undocumented as well as those who are legal immigrants but not citizens, and even those who simply appear to be immigrants or undocumented. These policies also have serious repercussions for the police who must enforce them.”

This report cites momentum gained and renews the call to “do school differently.”  In the two years since the release of The Opportunity Equation: Transforming Mathematics and Science Education for Citizenship and the Global Economy the report has served as a call to action, a unifying framework, and a mission statement for improved math and science education. Opportunity Equation presented a vision for excellent, equitable science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) learning that would reach all U.S. students and prepare them for full participation as citizens and as workers in an increasingly global economy, and it lent momentum and credibility to a growing movement. 

Now the conveners of the Commission – Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Institute for Advanced Study – are looking back on the major developments in each of the four areas emphasized in the original report: excellence and equity; standards and assessments; teaching and leadership; and school and system design.