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Project Title
For research on the history of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
48 months
Description
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), soon to enter its 50th year, faces an uncertain future and a contested past. At the upcoming Review Conference in 2020, state parties are almost certain to resurface frustrations with the treaty’s implementation. These debates highlight the need for a clear understanding of the historical context and rationale for the NPT. Through this project, University of Southampton will examine original negotiation records in multiple languages to clarify the intent and implications of the treaty. Among other things, the project will revisit the simplistic narrative of a “grand bargain” among disarmament, nonproliferation, and peaceful uses of nuclear energy to reveal a more complex reality. This study will be completed in time for the NPT Review Conference, where parties will meet to discuss the state of the treaty.
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For a consensus-building effort around pragmatic, short-term disarmament measures
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
15 months
Description
The debate over nuclear disarmament is dominated by well-established and seemingly irreconcilable positions that imperil the 2020 Review Conference of the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (RevCon). The British American Security Information Council (BASIC) will convene a series of facilitated workshops to improve mutual understanding between states and identify short-term pragmatic steps that represent a win for all parties. This survey and discussion process, informed by systems and design thinking, will systematically surface obstacles to disarmament. The goal is to identify and build support for pragmatic, short-term “stepping stones” in the global disarmament regime ahead of the RevCon. These outcomes will be communicated back to officials through a visual roadmap and interactive workshop reports.
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For establishing a Washington D.C.-based innovation hub
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
41 months
Description
Among the many obstacles to reducing nuclear risk is a set of structural and cultural impediments that make it hard to attract and retain top talent. Through this project, PopTech will work closely with the N Square initiative to establish a hub for innovation in Washington, D.C. to attract and activate individuals from the nuclear sector and relevant outside fields, including technology, media, design, economics, and psychology. Programming will avoid standard panel presentations and engage participants through interactive workshops, training programs, and informal gatherings. Through these efforts, PopTech and its partners will help foster a more effective, creative, and sustainable nuclear security community.
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For a campaign to elevate civic education in the national political discourse
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
28 months
Description
Civic education in the United States has been remarkably underfunded at both federal and local levels. Civic knowledge has consistently remained at 20-25 percent proficiency among students, and many young people are inadequately prepared with the civic skills and dispositions necessary to become engaged citizens. Following her retirement from the bench of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics in 2009 to address young people’s growing lack of knowledge and engagement in America’s civic life. iCivics has become one of the largest scaled civic education content providers in K-12 education. With Corporation support, iCivics and its coalition of more than ninety partner organizations will develop a roadmap of policy recommendations and best practices for expanding civic education.
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For support of the International Association for the Humanities (MAG)
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
56 months
Description
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is a private nonprofit federation of seventy-five national scholarly organizations, and the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. Although most of ACLS’s work pertains to the United States, a smaller but important part of its mission is its international activity. Two of its core international activities, one focusing on the former Soviet space and the other on Africa, have been created with support from the Corporation. The Humanities Program in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, known by its Russian acronym as MAG, advances humanities in these countries and helps connect scholarly communities in the region and internationally. The grant will enable MAG to hold its annual international conference in the summer 2020.
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For the Center for Educational Equity’s work to advance education policy to prepare all students for civic participation, with a focus on work in New York state
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Readying students for their civic responsibilities in a democracy has historically been an essential role of U.S. schools, and, in many states, is included as a core educational right under state constitutions. Yet large numbers of students currently leave high school without the knowledge, skills, experience, and dispositions to be effectively engaged in political and civic life. The Center for Educational Equity (CEE) at Teachers College, Columbia University seeks to help New York State become a model for the nation by (1) improving the capacity of all New York schools to properly prepare their students for civic participation, and (2) increasing the capacity of New York students and parents to understand and advocate for their educational right to civic preparation. This grant includes support for CEE leadership of a new statewide coalition, ‘DemocracyReady NY’, and the state department of education’s recently created ‘New York State Civic Readiness Task Force’.
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For data analysis and technical assistance support to New York State school districts
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
13 months
Description
In an effort to enhance the experiences and achievement of all students, the New York State Education Department (NYSED) launched the New York State Integration Project (NYSIP) to facilitate greater diversity in the state’s public schools. The NYSED engaged MarGrady Research and the Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) at Columbia University to build the capacity of districts to implement the NYSIP by providing technical assistance and data analysis as districts develop, implement, evaluate, and refine their strategic plans within their unique contexts. This critical support from MarGrady Research and the CPRL will ultimately equip districts to evaluate the impact of the NYSIP activities. While this project focuses on students in New York state, MarGrady Research and CPRL aim to develop knowledge that can be used in other districts working toward more diverse schools. With Corporation support to MarGrady Research, the research team will provide technical assistance and analytical support that will enable New York schools to participate in and evaluate student diversity efforts.
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For the Coherence Lab Fellowship: Cohort II
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
27 months
Description
Disconnected and sometimes dueling education reforms cause inefficiency, confusion, alienation and lackluster results for schools and students. This results from a lack of coherence in state (SEA) and local (LEA) education agencies. In 2017, as part of the Corporation’s Integration Design Consortium, Education First and Aspen Education developed the Coherence Lab Fellowship (CLF), focused on building capacity among SEA and LEA participants in three areas: building focus and coordination; executing with attention to equity; and authentic and early engagement of stakeholders in order to make sustainable progress at scale. The first cohort of forty-eight Fellows from Nevada, Ohio, and Wisconsin provided early evidence that suggests that the CLF experience is transformative, both for Fellows and their agencies. This grant is for Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) to run a second cohort with four states, working with Aspen Education and Education First.
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For support of a family engagement challenge and dissemination
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
19 months
Description
A family’s income level or zip code often determine the quality of education that their children receive. Research shows that parent and teacher partnerships are a powerful way to support student learning, but teachers need exposure to best practices and innovative ideas that enable these partnerships to flourish. As a crowdfunding platform with over 3.5 million donors to date, DonorsChoose.org (DonorsChoose) has engaged the public in directly funding classroom projects. Since its founding in 2000, teachers at more than 80 percent of all American public schools have used DonorsChoose.org to request resources to support the needs of their students and families, bringing 1.3 million classroom projects to life, and about 75 percent of projects funded come from teachers working in low-income communities. With support from Corporation, DonorsChoose.org will launch a Family Engagement Challenge to surface best-in-class ideas on family engagement and propagate these ideas to classrooms nationwide.
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For support of its Fellowship Program
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
According to a 2018 Pew Research Center and Körber-Stiftung public opinion survey, nearly seventy-five percent of Germans believe that the relationship between Germany and the United States is worsening. Mutual understanding between Germans and Americans enables the two nations to collaborate in addressing global issues such as climate change, economic instability, or threats posed by rising political and religious extremism. The American Academy in Berlin supports the role of the humanities and social sciences in sustaining and enhancing long-term intellectual, cultural, and political ties between the United States and Germany. Each year, the American Academy awards up to 23 semester or year-long Berlin Prize fellowships to established and emerging scholars, writers, and artists from the United States. Berlin Prize recipients give lectures, readings, and concerts and hold seminars and symposiums at the Academy and across Germany. Through its fellows, the Academy showcases the diversity of American thought, scholarship, and creativity, offering a more nuanced view of the United States than Germans receive from the news. With Corporation support, the Academy will continue to promote cooperation and understanding on both sides of the Atlantic through its fellowship program.
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For support of festivities and programming related to its 60th Anniversary
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Founded in 1959, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts was envisioned by founder John D. Rockefeller as a place where “the arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many.” Today, Lincoln Center welcomes approximately 6.5 million visitors annually, 300,000 of whom attend the more than 300 free programs. Lincoln Center has become an international leader in arts education, with 20,000 New York City public school children participating in classes and community engagement programs each year. In honor of its 60th anniversary in May, Lincoln Center will launch a year-long series of programs on the theme of culture and community, which will begin with a weekend of free programming for all. The curatorial vision for the weekend’s events is showcasing the diversity of New York City’s artists and presenting Lincoln Center as a welcome place for all New Yorkers. Carnegie Corporation funding will support the weekend’s festivities as well as high-quality free and discounted programming throughout the year.
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For changing the role of data to improve education outcomes
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past decade, there has been significant progress in building and implementing robust education data systems at the district, state, and federal levels. However, the wealth of data that has been collected through these systems is not always accessible to the parents, educators, and policymakers who need it to guide their decision-making. Data Quality Campaign (DQC) offers a deeply-informed, nonpartisan approach to addressing this challenge, working to ensure that all stakeholders have the information they need to make decisions that support student success. Since launching in 2005, DQC has become a leading and trusted voice in the field and remains the only national organization focused entirely on changing the role of data to improve education outcomes. With current Corporation support, DQC has created infographics and videos that increase understanding of education data use; conducted original opinion research that demonstrates positive shifts in parent and teacher attitudes towards education data; and convened policymakers and thought leaders to build their understanding of critical education data topics and their role in advancing progress.
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For support of an initiative to provide immigration services to eligible Latino immigrants and to educate Latino communities nationwide about the 2020 Census
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
15 months
Description
The Latino population in the United States is 56.5 million, comprising nearly 18 percent of the total U.S. population. In recent years, Latino immigrants and native-born citizens who identify as Latino have been the subjects of divisive political rhetoric and harmful policies that weaken family stability and well-being. Founded in 1990, the Hispanic Federation is one of the country’s premier Latino membership and advocacy organizations empowering the Latino community. The federation works with more than 100 grassroots nonprofits and leads programming in nineteen states and Puerto Rico, focusing specifically on low-income and immigrant communities in those areas. With Corporation support, the federation will provide critical information and legal and social services to Latino immigrants, including those seeking to adjust their status or who are beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status and the Deferred Action of Childhood Arrivals Program. The federation will also support a successful count of Latino communities across the country using culturally and linguistically competent public education and outreach around the upcoming decennial census.
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For a project involving Urban Advantage Denver to work with Denver Public Schools to support the implementation of Amplify Science in Middle Schools.
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
In 2018 Colorado adopted new science standards based on the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Although Denver has adopted Amplify Science as its NGSS-aligned middle school curriculum, teachers need effective professional learning linked to the use of this high-quality instructional material. Urban Advantage Denver (UA Denver), a partnership between Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver Zoo, Denver Botanic Gardens, and Denver Public Schools, is providing high-quality professional learning for teachers and focused museum-based learning experiences for students. Through this renewal, UA Denver will: (a) offer professional learning for teachers and on-site school support to help the school district implement Amplify Science in middle schools; (b) offer school field trips, outreach programs, or virtual programs with the museum, zoo, or gardens for students, and (c) evaluate the project, and develop a business model featuring services that can be purchased based on each school’s needs.
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For a project on the military and security dimensions of the Belt and Road Initiative
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) reflects China’s growing international presence and ambition. Activities associated with BRI have raised questions about Beijing’s motives and the extent to which the initiative not only seeks to facilitate trade and economic development but also advance China’s geostrategic aspirations. But concerns about BRI have arisen largely without well researched, evidence-based analysis. To address this gap, the Asia Society’s Policy Institute will expand on its “Navigating the Belt and Road” project by investigating the broader economic and security implications of BRI infrastructure investments across Asia and the challenges and opportunities they present for enhanced transparency and cooperation.
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For support of a conference on challenges to democracies around the world and the future of the nation-state
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
8 months
Description
As populist movements continue to gain influence and visibility around the world, many democratic societies are being forced to reckon with the urgent need to address growing domestic inequalities in power, wealth, and standards of living. In June 2018, Fondation Entreprendre coordinated the first Tocqueville Conversation, a convening of 150 prominent intellectuals, politicians, and representatives of business and civil society, in order to discuss recent populist movements in Europe and the United States, and how leaders should address the roots of civic unrest going forward. With Corporation support, Fondation Entreprendre will host the second Tocqueville Conversation, in order to discuss the future of democracy and the nation-state in today’s globalizing world. The convening will feature roundtables on the importance of multilateralism and how leaders can respond to the ongoing mass migration crisis, among other topics.
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For codification and expansion of the Resilient Scholars Program, an evidence-based socio-emotional learning model for high school students
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
While the literature indicates a positive relationship between socio-emotional learning (SEL) and long-term life outcomes, there remains a dearth of program models and readily available tools that enable educators to marry SEL with academic instruction, particularly at the high school level. The Urban Assembly (UA), a network of twenty-two public middle and high schools in New York City, created the Resilient Scholars Program (RSP) to ensure consistent implementation of socio-emotional programing across a diversity of school contexts. With Corporation support, the UA has embedded RSP into fourteen of its schools as well as launched partnerships with four additional New York City schools and five Los Angeles schools to spread RSP beyond the reach of its network. With continued Corporation support, the UA will strengthen the implementation, assessment, and sustainability of RSP in its schools, cultivate a model for RSP adoption in several new districts, and utilize its schools as demonstration sites to share best practices in SEL across the country.
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For a project to support a co-teaching model in New York City high school algebra classrooms
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
18 months
Description
The current structure of high school classrooms, consisting of an average student–teacher ratio of 30:1, is a barrier to individualizing instruction for students. To solve this problem, Blue Engine, a nonprofit organization founded in 2010, has developed an innovative co-teaching model that leverages multiple adults in classrooms to ensure that students receive targeted support and effective differentiation. Through this grant, Blue Engine proposes to improve and expand their algebra focused co-teaching model by supporting at least thirteen co-teaching teams of existing classroom teachers, reaching at least 800 students. Blue Engine will also test mechanisms to spread co-teaching practices beyond algebra by working with school administrators to create mechanisms to transfer effective co-teaching practices school-wide.
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For a State policy playbook based on the recommendations of the Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (SEAD) Commission
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
27 months
Description
There is widespread demand for student learning experiences that incorporate social and emotional development, as demonstrated by the findings of the National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development (NCSEAD). In order to address this demand, the NCSEAD outlined recommendations for shifting policy and practice to support learners holistically. Learning Policy Institute (LPI) is well positioned to provide direct technical assistance and resources to state policymakers in order to implement the NCSEAD recommendations. Led by Linda Darling-Hammond, co-chair of the SEAD Commission, LPI will build on the momentum of the NCSEAD to ensure state policy efforts are coordinated and informed by the research and recommendations. Support of this project will build upon the Corporation’s previous support of the NCSEAD and current support of America’s Promise Alliance to disseminate a communications campaign around the NCSEAD recommendations. With Corporation support, LPI will unify policymakers and researchers to advance the integration of social and emotional development into learning environments across the states.
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For strengthening the guardrails in U.S.-Russian Relations – Phase II
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
10 months
Description
The tensions between the United States and Russia have significant implications for international peace and security. The areas on which the two nuclear powers have traditionally cooperated due to necessity, including on nuclear stability, have been minimized and continue to erode. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (the Endowment) has long sustained channels of communication at the expert-level by bringing together a select group of senior U.S. and Russian experts capable of identifying areas of common interest, and developing practical ways of managing the impact of mutual irritants and disagreements. With Corporation support, the Endowment will continue to foster these engagements, which would result in reports for the U.S. and Russian audiences.
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For a project to develop tools and professional learning for school leaders focused on the use of standards-aligned, culturally relevant instructional materials and support for engaging families
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
15 months
Description
School leaders and district personnel such as leadership coaches and principal supervisors are central to improving student outcomes. They ensure teachers get the supports they need to excel, and engage families by building strong relationships with them. New York City Leadership Academy (NYCLA), an organization that has provided professional learning to 4,200 school and system leaders across thirty-three states, offers professional learning services school and system leaders need to do this work. Through this grant, NYCLA will: (a) develop professional learning materials so that school leaders can engage parents, and support standards-aligned and culturally responsive instruction, (b) refine professional learning materials for district leadership coaches and principal supervisors, (c) build NYCLA’s internal capacity to develop new content, and (d) share learnings with the field.
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For a University Consortium on the relationship between Russia and the West
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
The relationships among the United States, Europe, and Russia concern some of the world’s most critical challenges. In a climate of tensions between Russia and the United States and Europe, opportunities for scholarly engagements and considerations of cooperative approaches to global threats are rare. With support from the Corporation, six universities in the United States, Russia, and Europe formed a University Consortium (UC) a few years ago to advance training on, and seek solutions to, international issues by enabling regular interactions between students and faculty, as well as between UC members and policymakers. Toward these aims, the UC conducts academic programs and organizes policy-level conferences hosted by participating institutions on a rotational basis. With renewed support, the UC will continue its programs.
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For facilitating multi-stakeholder engagements on farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
18 months
Description
Longstanding, localized tensions in Nigeria between farmers and herders are increasingly escalating due to resource scarcity, climate change, rising population density, and agricultural developments. As a result, farmer-herder related violence has claimed approximately 4,000 lives in the least three years. By some estimates, these conflicts are more deadly than the Boko Haram insurgency in the country. In response, the Center for Democracy and Development in partnership with the United States Institute for Peace is focusing on facilitating a multi-stakeholder approach to address farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria’s Middle Belt regions. This project will convene a diverse group of relevant experts and practitioners to advance constructive dialogue towards identifying collaborative approaches for addressing the conflict trends in the region.
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As a final grant for the Consumer Citizens Lab
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
30 months
Description
In dozens of countries, behavioral science applications have demonstrated success in identifying and addressing gaps in governance and service provision. The Arab region’s first non-governmental behavioral science entity, Nudge Lebanon, has a mandate “to improve governance through the participation of the governed.” In fields ranging from municipal services to education, the Consumer Citizen Lab will expand its work addressing public policy challenges through evidence-based research and outreach. Corporation funds will support the creation of training modules and programs, policy briefings, publications, and convenings.
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As a final grant for the Tribute in Light
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
3 months
Description
The National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc.’s “Tribute in Light” is the annual commemorative public art installation that uses two vertical vertical towers of light to represent the Twin Towers in remembrance of the September 11 attacks to honor those who were killed, and also serves a national symbol of resilience celebrating the spirit of New York. The installation is visible for a 60-mile radius around lower Manhattan. In connection with the Tribute in Light event, the Museums offers an adverse set of inquiry-based programs designed to challenge students to think critically about a wide range of topics related to 9/11. With Corporation support the Museum will continue to expand on its educational programming.
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As a one-time only grant for support of the 125th Anniversary celebratory events
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1895, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) continues with its mission to engage, enrich, and inspire through live musical experiences. Indeed, since its founding, The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) has maintained its stature as one of the premier cultural experiences in Pittsburgh and around the world. The PSO will celebrate its 125th Anniversary in 2020, and with Corporation support will host a number special events free to the public. The first is collaboration with the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh that will include performances of all sixteen Beethoven string quartets in Carnegie Library branches throughout the greater Pittsburgh area. The second is planning and presenting four free performances of Beethoven symphonies in four unique and unconventional spaces in the Pittsburgh area.
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For international engagements on nuclear risk reduction in Northeast Asia
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
20 months
Description
While the United States, Russia and China all maintain a public commitment to resolving the North Korean nuclear challenge, they are not fully aligned in their approaches. Among the many challenges is a lack of sustained conversations on North Korea among the three countries. Pacific Forum seeks to address this gap through a series of trilateral meetings that will bring together a small number of senior and upcoming experts, policy practitioners, and policy officials from the United States, Russia, and China to discuss common interests and approaches to North Korea. The findings in the unofficial meetings will be brought to the attention of government officials in the respective capitals.
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For support of a project that uses archival and museum collections to provide immigrants with high-quality civics and American history workshops
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Over the past twelve years, the New York Historical Society (NYHS) has been partnering with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to host naturalization ceremonies for thousands of new Americans. Citizenship affords immigrants higher economic mobility, greater family stability, and stronger economic outcomes for their local communities. In 2017, NYHS launched an innovative initiative to leverage its considerable archival and museum collections to provide free civics and American history workshops to legal permanent residents who are preparing for the USCIS Naturalization Test. The first project of its kind among peers nationwide, NYHS has prepared more than 1,000 eligible applicants with high-quality civics education. With Corporation support, NYHS will expand its educational course offerings, including new online learning resources and a program to train other naturalization service providers.
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For a project to develop a curriculum implementation coaching program aligned to Expeditionary Learning Education’s high-quality K-8 Language Arts curriculum and pilot in Detroit and New York City Public Schools
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
Although in recent years the field has advanced significantly to recognize the importance of adopting high-quality instructional materials, there is demand in the field to address the gap between their adoption and strong implementation. The New Teacher Center (NTC), an education nonprofit founded in 1998 with the mission to disrupt the predictability of educational inequities for underserved students, recognizes this need in the field to support districts to effectively implement high-quality instructional materials. Through this grant, NTC will: (a) collaborate with Expeditionary Learning Education (EL Education), to support teachers implementing EL Education’s K-8 English Language Arts curriculum, highly rated by EdReports for its quality, usability, and alignment with the college and career-ready standards. NTC will also design job-embedded professional learning to enable teachers to effectively implement EL Education’s curriculum. They will train coaches who will support teachers, by piloting the new coaching model in two districts that have adopted EL Education’s curriculum: New York City and Detroit Public Schools.
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For a project to expand the impact of the 2019 PDK poll of the public's attitudes toward public schools
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
9 months
Description
There is an important need to engage the public in conversations about public schools and to include a more diverse set of voices that includes families and communities across the country. Without hearing the voices of parents and communities, state, local and district policies that directly affect students may not fully address or reflect students’ needs. While there are many surveys that gather information on the public’s views of education, often these surveys are partial or conducted by interest groups with particular agenda. Phi Delta Kappa International (PDK) was founded in 1906 with a mission to engage the public at large in order to improve schools so that every student thrives. Since its founding, PDK has engaged and connected different stakeholders who are committed to improving public education with its rigorous research and reports. With support from the Corporation, PDK will expand its national sample size of its annual poll of the public’s attitudes toward public schools, extend the poll to include focus groups, and disseminate the results of its national poll and focus groups more broadly in order to inform policies and practice.
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For support of a curatorial fellowship program advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the cultural sector
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
46 months
Description
Studies confirm that people of color are heavily underrepresented in American art museums, particularly in curatorial, conservation, and leadership positions. A lack of diversity among those influencing exhibitions and core museum programs inevitably limits the cultural sector’s ability to reflect the social needs and interests of the public it serves. The Morgan Library & Museum has been developing a career pipeline for underrepresented scholars in art museum curatorship, rare-book librarianship, and arts leadership. With Corporation support, the Morgan will support paid fellowships for early-career curatorial professionals who will help generate new interpretations of the Morgan’s collection and also broaden perspectives in the larger cultural sector.
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For the development and launch of a national community of practice on talent strategies to support innovative schools and systems
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
In recent years, schools nationwide have moved toward increasingly innovative approaches to teaching and learning. These changing practices require shifts in the preparation and ongoing professional development of educators. While there have been some important advances in the creation of hands-on residencies and training programs, their scale has been largely limited to schools within the districts and networks pioneering these programs. This grant will support InnovateEdu to design and launch a national community of practice focused on talent systems needed for the changing education landscape. This grant will provide support for the first phase of the project during which InnovateEDU will 1) launch a community of practice with an inaugural cohort of ten to fifteen school districts, charter networks, and school support organizations; 2) facilitate virtual and in-person working groups on relevant topics that will result in actionable solutions; and 3) create multimedia resources to share ideas and lessons with the broader field.
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For the design of a new high school model and codification of educator training resources
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
38 months
Description
There is an emerging consensus that school designs that incorporate personalization, mastery, and positive youth development offer the kind of learning experiences necessary to prepare students for success in college, career, and life, in turn bridging persistent opportunity and achievement gaps. The Great Oaks Foundation (Great Oaks) strives to provide this type of learning experience and to prepare students for postsecondary success with high-dosage tutoring, high-quality teaching, and a strong emphasis on family and community engagement. With seven school sites across four states, Great Oaks has grown to the high school level and is poised to design a flagship high school model focused on student mastery, leadership, and community that builds upon Great Oaks’ innovative staffing model. With Corporation support, Great Oaks will design a new high school model and build the capacity of educators to successfully implement the model by codifying training programs and resources.
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For support of an interactive exhibit that demonstrates how the decennial census can be used to understand New York City
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Scholars and advocates have long recognized the value of the United States decennial census for providing insight into local identity and community-level needs. In anticipation of the 2020 Census, the Museum of the City of New York is partnering with local organizations and other city institutions to develop an exhibit that illustrates how a fair and accurate census can help people understand New York City and its complex socioeconomic ecosystems. In conjunction with the exhibit, the museum will provide educational programming on the history of the census, the various programs and projects it affects, and the impact that individual participation can have on the city. With Corporation support, the museum will curate a robust “data art” exhibit of New York City that demystifies and humanizes the census for students, educators, and the general public.
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For a study and policy dialogue on governance of African science granting councils
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
48 months
Description
Sub-Saharan African governments have been slow to recognize the link between investment in research and national development. As custodians of government funds allocated to research, Africa’s Science Granting Councils (SGCs) are critical to national development and advocacy. The future and sustainability of Africa’s emerging research universities depends on the SGCs’ support for knowledge production and the next generation of scholars. Yet the majority of SGCs are newly established and structurally weak. Their role in advocacy depends on effective governance and efficient operations. Corporation support will fund a research study and policy dialogue on the governance and operations of SGCs, with the aim of strengthening their organizational capacities and advocacy for research.
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For support of a project to launch the Youth Activation Learning and Action Community
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Despite various improvements to the education system that provide greater access to postsecondary opportunities, the academic achievement gap and college enrollment rate between students from low-income communities and their wealthier peers persist. While there are many reasons for this gap, one critical component is the lack of student agency and effective models that empower students to take ownership of changes to the system itself. PeerForward, formerly College Summit, is a nonprofit organization leveraging the power of students and positive peer influence in order to improve postsecondary access and success. Through its youth activation model which prioritizes student voice, PeerForward has created a scalable method for leveraging the power of peer influence to motivate students to continue education beyond high school. With support from the Corporation, PeerForward will develop a common language and framework for measurement and management of performance across a continuum of youth activation strategies, coordinate its youth activation learning communities, and provide the field with a framework for guiding youth activation teams.
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For the publication of the Mitchell Papers, Volumes V and VI
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
37 months
Description
State University New York (SUNY) Old Westbury is a diverse public liberal arts college that fosters academic excellence, community engagement, and global citizenship through its academic programs and campus life. With Corporation support, the University will publish Volumes V and VI of the Papers of the Clarence Mitchell, Jr. Project, a nine-volume series that seeks to increase scholarly interest in the legislative phase of the modern civil rights movement. Clarence Mitchell Jr. (1911-1984) was a civil rights activist who helped secure passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s. The volumes will include some of Mitchell’s most important writing, including the reports he prepared for the Fair Employment Practice Committee and as a chief lobbyist for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) from 1950 to 1978.
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For a public education and outreach project on U.S. foreign policy
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
16 months
Description
Today’s international security is facing significant challenges, many of which are of direct consequence to the United States. The unfolding developments affect, and are being affected by, the current administration and the one that will take office in January 2021. Yet, foreign policy issues are not factoring much in the U.S. national discourse and/or the election process. Responding to this reality, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) will launch a special initiative to improve public awareness of U.S. foreign policy choices. The initiative will include various virtual and in-person activities, including a dedicated website, video and podcast series, town hall forums hosted on social media, events at universities across the country, and extensive campaign coverage in Foreign Affairs magazine.
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For support of the Excellence through Social Emotional Learning Network
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
24 months
Description
While district leaders and practitioners largely recognize the importance of socio-emotional learning (SEL) to academic and lifelong success, they often lack the resources and support to implement SEL in a comprehensive way. The Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, working with Transforming Education, developed the Excellence through Social Emotional Learning (exSEL) Network to equip district leaders to implement SEL in their districts and to facilitate collaboration across districts. Since its launch two years ago, the exSEL network has grown to nineteen participating districts from across Massachusetts. The Rennie Center has demonstrated its capacity to support exSEL members as they integrate SEL into their school systems and is well positioned to expand the network in year three. With Corporation Support, the Rennie Center will codify resources for district SEL planning and implementation, deepen the support offered to current exSEL members, and recruit up to three new members from low-income districts to ensure equitable participation in the network.
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For the 2019 Grantmakers for Education annual conference, entitled Supporting Students in Overcoming Adversity: Agency, Justice, Equity
Date
Jun. 13, 2019
Duration
4 months
Description
Effective education grantmaking is complex and funders too often work independently with limited opportunities for exchange and collaboration with peers. Grantmakers for Education (GFE) is a national network of hundreds of education philanthropies, diverse in focus but united in mission: to improve outcomes and expand opportunities for all learners, cradle to career. Founded in 1995 on the premise that collective insights, shared resources, and constructive collaboration enable grantmakers to make more intentional and impactful investments in public education and beyond, GFE hosts an annual conference as a centerpiece of that strategy. This grant supports the 2019 conference, which has the theme of Supporting Students in Overcoming Adversity: Agency, Justice, Equity and which is expected to draw over 700 attendees.
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For building a rapid digital response capacity in the nuclear policy community
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
23 months
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The majority of the public now gets its news from social media, and if the nuclear policy community wants to remain relevant, it must accelerate its transition to a hybrid approach emphasizing digital communications. This project, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), provides a foundation for these efforts. MIT will conduct research into the communications landscape and how organizations are navigating within it. The team will then share its findings and help build a digital rapid response capacity so nuclear policy groups can provide fact-based responses in real-time to emerging events or crises.
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For the Center for Effective Career and Technical Education
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
24 months
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New models of career and technical education (CTE) can prepare students for twenty-first century success by helping them navigate an increasingly complex labor market. However, the renewed interest in CTE has come largely without the benefit of a strong evidence base about the efficacy of next generation CTE models. MDRC, a social policy research organization with a two-decade history of developing and evaluating CTE programs, is beginning to fill that gap. With Corporation support in 2018, MDRC launched its Center for Effective Career and Technical Education, a hub for building evidence on CTE effectiveness, synthesizing research and lessons learned, and providing technical assistance and resources related to CTE programs, policy, and evidence. Renewed support will enable the ongoing growth and development of the Center as well as research activities to inform policy and practice among CTE stakeholders.
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For the development of entrepreneurial pathways for new schools and learning models
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
27 months
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The education sector is not set up to foster large-scale innovation or entrepreneurship, particularly among underrepresented and marginalized individuals who are best positioned to craft solutions for challenges facing their communities. Founded in 2010, 4.0 Schools (4.0) has demonstrated expertise in coaching, connecting, and investing in diverse leaders to develop breakthrough learning models with youth and families in in their local communities. Through its fellowship programming and early stage investments, and by leveraging its extensive alumni network, 4.0 supports aspiring education entrepreneurs to develop and test innovative ideas, learn from their pilot projects, and make evidence-informed decisions about whether and how to move forward. This approach creates a low-risk, low-cost environment for a diverse set of fellows to innovate and learn, and it also establishes a community of practitioners whose fellowship experiences position them to become local education leaders in their cities.
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For ongoing support of the Task Force on U.S.-China policy
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
The Asia Society’s U.S.-China Task Force (the Task Force), a bipartisan group of leading American experts on China, was launched in 2015 to assess how America’s strategy toward China has demonstrated both strengths and weaknesses, how China has changed over the last four decades, and how American policy can adapt to current circumstances. The Task Force’s reports are widely covered in leading global media outlets and shared with relevant government officials. Given China’s global importance and reach, the Task Force will stay intact to provide insights on U.S.-China policy for the U.S. administration and Congress, and to foster public discussion about the U.S.-China relationship through events and media engagement.
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For participation of emerging female African researchers in the Global Forum on Women in Scientific Research
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
30 months
Description
Globally, women account for a smaller portion of scientific research output, and many in the African academic community have committed to growing the numbers and expanding opportunities for female researchers. Envisioned as a global conversation, the Global Forum on Women in Scientific Research, convening July 18-19 in Dakar, Senegal, will provide a venue to discuss trends and strategies to increase women’s research output and opportunities. The forum, co-hosted by African Women in Agricultural Research and Development and the African Academy of Sciences, will bring together more than 200 female researchers and their advocates to catalyze new connections and strengthen the network of actors working to address gender equality in academic research. This grant will support attendance by twenty-six early-career female researchers and ten heads of regional research institutes.
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For the Anchor Institutions Task Force 10th annual conference and associated work
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
Anchor institutions are enduring organizations that remain in their geographic settings and play a vital role in addressing persistent inequities in education, health, economic status, and other areas in their communities and economies. The Anchor Institutions Task Force (AITF) promotes the role of anchor institutions in community and economic development. AITF serves as an action-oriented learning community in which leaders of anchor institutions and other partners, across fields and sectors, can learn from each other about how to more effectively strengthen their communities. AITF hosts an annual conference, which is an important venue for anchor institutions to mutually enhance their ability to be change agents in their communities. This grant provides support for AITF’s 2019 annual conference, which will take place in October in New York City.
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For support for completion of a book entitled "The Future of American Higher Education: Looking Backward, Looking Forward and Looking Sideways"
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
25 months
Description
Due to accelerating demographic, economic, and technological change in the United States, the higher education landscape has shifted dramatically. Long viewed as a path to professional and economic success, traditional, four-year, residential college programs are no longer meeting the needs of Americans. Industrial and analog jobs are disappearing due to automation and outsourcing. The new global, digital economy is powered by information and ideas. Postsecondary education is struggling to prepare recent high school graduates for non-linear and often unpredictable career paths and to retrain adults in declining industries to do new types of work. Arthur Levine, outgoing president of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, will shed light on these issues in a book entitled, “The Future of American Higher Education: Looking Backward, Looking Forward and Looking Sideways.” Before his appointment at Woodrow Wilson, Levine was president of Teachers College at Columbia University and chairman of the higher education program at the Institute for Educational Management. His book aims to illuminate the challenges facing the field through a three-pronged framework: studying the past to see how higher education has responded to profound societal change historically; predicting how forces changing the United States today will affect the future of postsecondary education; and examining how other kinds of organizations, such as newspapers and television companies, have responded to globalization. With Corporation support, Levine will have the resources to conduct research and dedicate time to writing the remaining chapters of the book.
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For support of the 2019 National Family and Community Engagement Conference
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
7 months
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Research has shown that student achievement increases when parents are engaged in their children’s learning and that strong family-school partnerships are the foundation for family engagement. Applying best practices in family engagement to local contexts however requires an understanding of the conditions and capabilities that support engagement, particularly at the school and district levels. The Institute for Educational Leadership (IEL) has been partnering with district leaders to capture best practices and to support the field in deepening its implementation of effective and systemic engagement efforts while enhancing professional development opportunities for teachers, principals, and school staff. Since 2014, IEL has organized the National Family Engagement Conference, a convening of over 200 district leaders representing more than 9,000 schools across forty-four states working to improve district practices in support of families. The Corporation will support IEL’s 2019 National Family and Community Engagement conference in order to continue sharing best practices, integrating strategies such as capacity building and leadership development, and moving toward a more systemic engagement of parents and families across the country.
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For support of capacity building efforts to increase the organization's ability to help students apply to and enroll in college
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
College Advising Corps (CAC) works to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. CAC partners with colleges and universities throughout the country to build a network of recent college graduates who become “near-peer” advisers for high school students. As a result, advisers from CAC’s twenty-six and growing partner institutions are employed as full-time college advisers in high schools. During the 2018-19 school year, 733 CAC advisers served 210,000 students in 670 high schools throughout the United States. Support from the Corporation will enable CAC to invest in areas that will build capacity: infrastructure and staffing; a knowledge-capture system to ensure a learning network that identifies, codifies, and elevates the program’s best practices; scalable and sustainable systems at the state levels in the areas where CAC works; and the ability to test and scale innovations from the field in order to produce better outcomes, nationally.
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For support of an initiative to increase cross-sector engagement to close the postsecondary equity gap
Date
Sep. 12, 2019
Duration
12 months
Description
National College Access Network’s (NCAN) mission is to build, strengthen, and empower education communities and stakeholders to close equity gaps in postsecondary attainment for all students. Students served by NCAN members regularly outperform other low-income students in enrolling in and graduating from postsecondary. NCAN provides professional development, networking, benchmarking, tools, and news from the field so that organizations can deliver college access and success services more effectively. NCAN also advocates at the national level for policies to improve access and success. Support from the Corporation will allow NCAN to drive broader participation from key sectors in closing the equity gap in postsecondary outcomes. This project will help NCAN work across the K-12/higher education pipeline and across multiple sectors to generate leadership buy-in, collect and share relevant data, change policies, provide funding, and deliver/coordinate evidence-based support to students. NCAN will identify exemplar communities, new partners and champions, and tools and resources for engagement with more audiences beyond 2020.
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