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For support of an international conference for strengthening democratic societies
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
Current trends point towards a global regression in democratic values and norms. Values such as peaceful transfers of power, open civic space, and free media are being challenged in formidable ways. Responding to these trends, the World Movement for Democracy, for which the National Endowment for Democracy serves as the Secretariat, will bring together 400 leaders from various sectors, in Dakar, Senegal, to develop and strengthen collective responses. The conference will deliberate over issues and approaches, and will make recommendations for government-civil society engagements that could potentially lead to strengthening democracies around the world.
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For a project examining the United States legal immigration system
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Despite overwhelming evidence that immigrants contribute far more to the United States economy and society, writ large, than they cost in government expenditures, nativist forces both inside and outside of government have been working to dramatically reduce legal immigration. Efforts to reduce legal immigration pose a serious threat to the country’s economic health and its ability to compete in today’s globalized world. Not only do more than half of the billion-dollar startups in America have at least one immigrant founder, five out of six of the student finalists at the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search competition were the children of immigrants. Founded in 2003, the National Foundation for American Policy is a nonpartisan policy institute dedicated to immigration, the economy, and international trade. With Corporation support, the National Foundation for American Policy will produce quality research on the legal immigration system and the contributions immigrants have made to American society.
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For the project, Because it Works: Reclaiming the American Capacity to Solve
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
36 months
Description
Founded in 1947, the World Affairs Council of Northern California (World Affairs) seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy and private enterprise through open, balanced, and non-partisan discourse. With Corporation support, World Affairs will launch an initiative to explore causes and consequences of the global decline in citizen trust and the role that civil society can play in countering it. The initiative will include outreach across the public, private, and citizen sectors in order to build social capital through a deeper understanding of the democratic process. The initiative will include a book project and forums for encouraging collaboration and problem solving, will promote pluralism by emphasizing immigrant participation in U.S. democracy, and will illuminate the role that philanthropy and volunteerism plays is strengthening democracies.
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As a one-time grant to build a database for mapping of African policy expertise
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
22 months
Description
African-based research is critical to solving major systemic challenges in education, agriculture, and healthcare across the continent. Yet due to infrastructure and communications constraints, African governments, policymakers, and researchers are not always aware of expertise that is generated locally and among peers. Greater visibility of African-generated research for development projects, including those being framed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, is reliant on identifying and creating a community of policy experts. With Corporation support, AfricaWorks will develop a mapping of policy expertise across the agriculture and education sectors in select countries in Africa, and pilot a comprehensive online database of expertise for use by government officials, policymakers, donors, and the private sector.
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For a project to review middle school science curricula and determine the alignment with the Next Generation Science Standards
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
EdReports is an independent nonprofit organization whose goal is to help improve K-12 education through free, educator-led reviews of instructional materials claiming alignment to college and career ready standards. They seek to increase the capacity of teachers and leaders to identify and demand the highest quality instructional materials. This grant will build upon the successful track record EdReports has produced in shaping smart demand in math and English language arts (ELA) to support expansion into reviews of science instructional materials. With the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) adopted or adapted in thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia, educators are grappling with how to translate the three dimensions of science learning into their practice. As EdReports found in its reviews of math and ELA materials, claiming alignment does not necessarily result in materials that address the instructional shifts necessary to support students. Providing comprehensive, evidence-rich reviews of new and retrofitted materials will be essential to ensuring districts do not invest in or continue to use instructional materials that do not facilitate the science learning that students need.
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For the diffusion of the Bard High School Early College model
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Education program staff seek to create alignment between secondary and postsecondary learning experiences such that all students are prepared for success. Early college high schools are an important way we can help students bridge the gap between high school and college, and Bard College has developed an early college model that exemplifies the type of innovative, intellectually-rigorous learning experiences we seek to promote. With current Corporation support, Bard has codified practices and developed resources, as well as undertaken important policy work, so that its proven approach can be utilized in other school environments beyond Bard and the early college field. The proposed scope of work builds on the success of these efforts through: 1) Creating policy conditions, including alternative teacher certification pathways and recruitment strategies, for broader application of early college pedagogies and 2) Launching technical assistance partnerships with school networks and districts in order to diffuse Bard practices in other contexts.
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For general support and the William J. Perry Project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
In a world facing multiple perils, the risks of nuclear war, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and nuclear terrorism remain among the gravest threats to international peace and security. The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) plays a key role in driving international policy discussions on these issues. With renewed support, NTI will continue to provide analysis, facilitate international dialogues, and promote efforts to reduce threats from nuclear weapons and radiological materials at medical facilities. The grant will also support NTI’s efforts to expand global capacity for verification of nuclear weapons-related activities. Finally, the grant will support the William J. Perry project, an initiative to stimulate an informed and broadly-inclusive public conversation about the role of nuclear weapons in today’s world.
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As a one-time grant for support of the Commission on Civility and Effective Governance
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
The Center for the Study of the Presidency & Congress (CSPC) was founded in 1965 at the behest of former President Dwight Eisenhower to study the lessons of American political history and convene together leaders from government and the private sector. With Corporation support, the CSPC will form a bi-partisan Commission on Civility and Effective Governance to examine what are the drivers behind dysfunction in American politics including incivility in political discourse, campaign and election systems, the role of money in politics, gerrymandering, voter access, and media and voter information. CSPC commission members include thought leaders in public service, the private sector, and academia who are experts in their respective fields and will be tasked, through a series of roundtable discussions, to help identify roadblocks, propose solutions to removing those roadblocks, and to find consensus-based solutions to remedy political dysfunction.
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For support of the Innovative Schools, Education Technology, and Diverse Leaders investment portfolios, as well as related knowledge-building activities, including the 2019 national Summit.
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
36 months
Description
In order to realize a vision in which all students are prepared for postsecondary success, the New Designs portfolio supports innovative school models and new educational tools that personalize student learning experiences, as well as the capacity-building of adults and systems in support of these efforts. NewSchools Venture Fund (NSVF) is an important partner in advancing work in each of these areas. Founded in 1998, NSVF sources, vets, and invests in high-quality school models and educational technologies, as well as the educational leaders necessary to the success of those efforts. With Corporation support since 2015, NSVF has supported the planning and/or launch of seventy-four new schools, twenty school redesign efforts, six model providers, and seventy-three education technology ventures, in addition to playing an important thought leadership and convening role. With Corporation support, NSVF will develop and scale: new school models, educational technologies, and organizations led by diverse education leaders. NSVF will also undertake thought leadership, research, and learning activities in each of these areas.
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For the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) to support school district reform through a systems-level network of educational leaders and academic research
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
30 months
Description
An emerging evidence base suggests that personalized and mastery-based learning experiences are beneficial to long-term student success, and many individual school and program models have emerged that incorporate these design principles. However, despite the existence of strong school models, more must be done to explore the system-level shifts and policies necessary to ensure personalization for all students. Over the last twenty-five years, the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) at the University of Washington has been at the forefront of school system redesign, providing both thought leadership and academic research to support cities doing the challenging work of transforming their education systems. Building upon their expertise in this area, CRPE is embarking on a new chapter focused on building schools and school systems where policies, resources, and school options are aligned to ensure personalized student support. With Corporation support, CRPE will 1) Convene a network of best-in-class state and district leaders to develop systems-level strategies for making the shift toward student-level personalization and 2) Build the evidence base for issues relevant to personalization and system redesign.
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For planning and early work related to launching a design challenge related to improving the parent-teacher connection
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
7 months
Description
The recent Learning Heroes report, Parents 2017: Unleashing Their Power and Potential (funded by the Corporation), highlighted the disconnects between school and parent expectations for students and their learning experiences, and the extent to which gaps in communication, perception and partnership between educators and parents result in unmet student needs. The report underscored the importance of understanding parents’ goals, interests, emotions, and perceptions so that educators and schools can be true partners in raising children to be happy and productive adults. However, parents and teachers have very little opportunity to create ideas together for how to better meet student needs. The Teachers Guild aims to provide the community, coaching and tools to make the Learning Heroes research actionable, by creating a program that unites teachers and parents to co-create solutions that better meet student needs. They propose accomplishing this by running a year-long Parent-Teacher Collaboration design challenge to activate educators and parents in designing new ideas for better connecting parents and teachers, which schools and districts can then test. This grant is for implementation planning for the design challenge.
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For a project to develop a mentoring community to support the development of new math and science teachers
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Trellis, a nonprofit organization founded in 2015 to ensure all California students have exceptional science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teachers, is pioneering a research-based solution to the demand for math and science teachers. Trellis supports teacher preparation providers and partner school districts to create cohesive pathways for preparing, developing, and retaining successful mathematics and science teachers over a six-year trajectory. With Corporation support, Trellis started a community of Mentor Fellows who provide specific mentoring support to early-career teachers. This renewal grant builds on that work and will support Trellis to support early career secondary math and science teachers, begin formative evaluation work, deepen partnerships with districts, and strengthen Trellis’s capacity by increasing its leadership team.
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For a project to support a new cohort in the School Systems Leaders Fellowship
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Improving school systems across the country to deliver on the promise of providing an excellent education for every student requires the right leaders. Currently, the education sector suffers from a deficit of instructionally focused, cabinet-level leaders. The School Systems Leaders Fellowship (SSLF), a project of Cambiar Education, is focused on solving this human capital need. The Fellowship’s primary goal is to prepare high-potential education leaders to take on instructionally focused cabinet-level roles by exposing fellows to leaders in the field and key content to help them develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and opportunities to be effective cabinet-level leaders. With Corporation support, SSLF has grown the program to serve more Fellows over four cohorts. This renewal grant will support SSLF to build on this success and deepen the instructional leadership component of the program and further diversify the make-up of future cohorts.
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For a project to promote the use of tools and professional learning to evaluate instructional materials
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
36 months
Description
After the release of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia adopted the NGSS or adopted new science standards influenced by the NGSS. At the core of these new standards is a focus on three-dimensional instruction, which integrates key scientific ideas with science and engineering practices while highlighting the themes that cut across the major science disciplines. Three-dimensional learning requires teachers to shift their approach and to do this, they need high-quality instructional materials and professional learning supports. The National Science Teacher Association (NSTA), an organization with a membership of 55,000 educators, is uniquely positioned to aid the science education community in understanding these shifts. With Corporation support, NSTA built a substantial communication infrastructure to support NGSS. Through this grant, NSTA will help build demand for high-quality instructional units reviewed by Achieve and expand their professional learning offerings to support NGSS implementation using existing Corporation supported tools like NextGen TIME and the Five Tools for NGSS, in an effort to inform and build demand for more high-quality science instructional materials.
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As a one-time only grant in support of the Mosaic Project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
18 months
Description
Rhode Island Public Radio (RIPR) has the potential reach of more than 1 million households in Rhode Island and its surrounding communities. Their mission is to provide programming from various sources including National Public Radio, American Public Media, and Public Radio International. In addition, RIPR creates original journalistic content around politics, education, democracy, health, and the environment. With Corporation support, RIPR will create Mosaic, a limited podcast series as well as listening events addressing civic integration and the immigrant experience. The series, through storytelling, will focus on community specific issues, highlighting how differences in cultures can strengthen rather than divide people. RIPR endeavors to spur people and institutions to start their own conversations on immigrant integration in order to strengthen local community development.
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For support of the United Parent Leaders Action Network to develop a three-year strategic plan
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
An effective way to build public demand for quality education is to support parents at the policy-making table. A key challenge though is creating a strong constituency of organized parents at both the district as well as the state and national levels. United Parent Leaders Action Network (UPLAN) represents thirty parent leadership and organizing nonprofit organizations serving 500,000 parents and empowering them to lead policy action campaigns. Since its inception in 2015, UPLAN has focused on building parent leadership initiatives, such as convenings and trainings, and developing collaborative relationships between its members and important groups such as the US Department of Education. With support from the Corporation, UPLAN will design a comprehensive three-year strategy that will maximize its impact as a grassroots network for parents. Through its strategic plan, UPLAN will be able to facilitate collective policy action by parents and families across the country.
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As a one-time only grant for the documentary project, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Under the auspices of the New York Foundation for the Arts, Oren Rudavsky Productions will produce a documentary, Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People, examining Pulitzer’s public and personal life and his notion of journalistic integrity as integral to a strong and robust democracy. The documentary, will be aired through the PBS broadcast of American Masters in the spring of 2019, around the awarding of the Pulitzer Prizes, with preview screenings held at a number institutions which have stakes in journalism or the history of journalism such as PEN, the Newseum, and the schools of journalism at Columbia and the University of Missouri. With corporation support, the documentary team will focus on post-production projects, including film editing, screenings, and the creation of publicity and outreach materials, targeting audiences such as adult public and educational groups.
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For international dialogues on Arab region security
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Ongoing conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and other parts in the Arab region continue the humanitarian crisis and the ensuing devastation. In the absence of effective progress through official diplomatic efforts, unofficial communications offer a path to identifying possible pathways toward stability. The Middle East Dialogue promotes such communications among stakeholder officials, advisors, and experts from the Arab region and internationally. Through a set of regular meetings, the participants grapple with current political and security dynamic and explore conflict de-escalation mechanisms. Renewed support will enable the continuation of these discussions and the dissemination of their key findings through policy briefings and publications.
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As a one-time only grant for support of the Pakistan Youth Initiative
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
11 months
Description
Since early 2014, the World Bank has been working with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan Information Technology Board and civic sector stakeholders to foster inclusion of its youth in the digital economy through initiatives such as the Digital Youth Summit (DYS). With a population of around 16 million under the age of thirty, KP is facing a demographic transition. If included in the work force, KP’s youth could help drive significant economic gains in the coming decades. On the other hand, this youth bulge also has the potential to devolve into social unrest if not effectively engaged. With Corporation support, the World Bank, in partnership with the Government of KP, will organize a 2018 DYS, creating a platform for engaging youth to learn and network, thus promoting and supporting their aspirations, inclusion, and economic empowerment in conflict areas.
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As a one-time only grant to support the African Studies Center's University of Michigan African Presidential Scholars (UMAPS) program
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Faculty members at African universities face myriad challenges in advancing their careers. Substantial administrative and teaching duties hinder professors who are conducting research or writing books, and prevent faculty who are pursuing doctoral degrees while teaching from attaining them. For this reason, few faculty members at African universities hold PhDs. In many African countries, government funding for education has been redirected to primary schools at the expense of higher education. Founded in 2008, the African Studies Center at the University of Michigan is dedicated to creating scholarly and educational partnerships between American and African institutions. The Center’s African Presidential Scholars initiative offers on-campus residencies to early-career faculty at African universities. These residencies free African professors from teaching and administrative work, allowing them to focus exclusively on writing and research. Scholars also benefit from network-building and research collaboration with American professors. Carnegie Corporation support will fund a four to six-month residency at the University of Michigan for an African scholar.
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For support of the educational and outreach programming for the exhibition "Armenia!"
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (The Met) core mission is to collect, study, conserve, and present significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas, and education remains a core priority. With Corporation support, the Museum will curate and present the exhibition, Armenia!, the first exhibition of its kind, highlighting Armenia’s artistic achievements and its distinctive visual culture based on their early conversion to Christianity. The exhibition includes artifacts from collections in the Armenia, Jerusalem, and Venice. Educational programming includes an international symposium, an evening lecture, family programs, tours, a concert and a film screening, teen programs, and access to new scholarship in the field of Armenian studies. Beyond the exhibition, The Met hopes to generate interest and thereby establish standards for future Armenia studies in the United States.
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For the Andrew Carnegie Distinguished Lectures in Honor of David Hamburg
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Founded in 1918, the Foreign Policy Association (FPA) continues to host influential global thinkers at meetings, conferences, and lectures each year. Launched in 2012, the Carnegie Distinguished Lectures in Honor of David Hamburg (DAH) are designed to deepen policymakers’ understanding of the causes and consequences of violent conflict and advance national and international discourse on preventing conflict, on building political will for conflict prevention, and on strengthening public advocacy for prevention and peaceful response to situations of conflict. With corporation support, FPA will continue host a number of the DAH lectures continuing as a key resource for the FPA’s programs to encourage broad-based civic engagement in foreign policy decision making and, therefore, to strengthen the U.S. democracy.
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For continued development of Parent University and the Parent Ambassador Program to help strengthen school-community bonds
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
Communities are strengthened by the educational institutions in their neighborhoods, including museums and science centers. Founded in 1964, The New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Queens, New York is the city’s home for interactive science. Co-designed with educators, parents and school leaders in 2017, NYSCI Neighbors is a comprehensive, community engagement initiative focused on providing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) educational opportunities to local communities, largely comprised of immigrant families. With support from the Corporation, NYSCI developed Parent University within NYSCI Neighbors. Using a two-generation approach where both parents and children are engaged in hands-on exploration, Parent University builds families’ awareness of STEM career opportunities for their children and provides resources to parents for helping their children achieve greater academic success. With continued support from the Corporation, NYSCI will streamline its Parent University programs, broaden its Parent Ambassador program, and begin building a community of practice with museums and science centers across the country using similar, hyper-local STEM programming to expand opportunities for families.
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For a project on artificial intelligence and international security
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
The past few years have seen rapid improvements in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). AI systems are being applied to problems in transportation, finance, health care, and intelligence. Despite calls from prominent scientists to avoid militarizing AI, these tools will also inevitably be used in warfare. With Corporation support, the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) will conduct interdisciplinary work on AI’s role in shaping international security and stability. The project will build a community of experts from sectors that do not often intersect: academia, business, and the policy world. The project seeks to lay the foundations for a field of study on AI and international security, and to develop policy recommendations for how to capitalize on the benefits of AI while avoiding the pitfalls.
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For continuation of the Dana Center math pathways work
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
27 months
Description
The Dana Center has become a leading force in modernizing introductory college mathematics and enabling student success. The Center’s mathematics pathways project, which began as a partnership with all fifty Texas community college districts, is now working actively with more than a dozen states and key national higher education organizations and mathematics professional societies. This reflects a novel innovation by which community colleges are increasing students’ access to and completion of rigorous and relevant math pathways. This grant will enable the Dana Center to provide the technical assistance support and resources needed to establish full implementation and normative practice of mathematics pathways in one state, with in-depth support for one region. In addition, the Center plans to lay the foundation for the next innovation in pathways work — the redesign of the pathway to Calculus — and amplify its influence in the field.
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For continuation of the iLEAD project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
27 months
Description
There is a need for more productive relationships between research and practice in educational leadership programs. Rather than developing the skills and capabilities for improvement that could be used to strengthen the systems they will work in, future educators often get doses of theory and methods that are related to, but often decontextualized and decoupled from, practice. Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching’s iLEAD (Improvement Leadership Education and Development) project, launched in 2017 with Corporation support, is a human-resource development strategy that brings together institutions of higher education (IHEs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to better prepare teacher- and administrative-leaders to nimbly navigate and productively contribute to success in K-12 systems. iLEAD supports teams of IHE faculty and LEA leaders to integrate improvement science into leadership development programs, with the long-term goal of building leadership capabilities for making progress on persistent problems of practice in schools and school systems. This grant is for continuation of the iLEAD network.
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For planning and launch of the Educator Preparation Innovation Center
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Educator preparation has been widely criticized as failing to prepare educators who are equipped for the challenges of teaching and leading in schools today. As K-12 education shifts toward more personalized, experiential and deeper learning, teacher and leader preparation programs need to evolve to ensure that educators are learning new pedagogies and instructional strategies and developing the skills, knowledge and dispositions they need to support deeper learning for all students. This grant supports Learning Policy Institute (LPI) in launching an Educator Preparation Innovation Center (EPIC) that will build the collaborative capacity of educator preparation programs, school districts, and state policy makers to strengthen the policy and practice of educator preparation in the United States. EPIC will (1) build a learning community of educator preparation programs and school district leaders (led by Bank Street College of Education); (2) conduct and disseminate research on models of practice and their outcomes; and (3) strengthen the capacity of policymakers in order to inform federal, state and local policy development.
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For developing and launching an Institute model for Proving Ground, an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research.
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
51 months
Description
As states, districts, and schools increasingly move towards using evidence-based practices to drive continuous improvement at the school level, a number of limitations, including cost, time, and capacity, prevent them from fully leveraging data and analysis. As a result, school districts are constantly cycling through new initiatives, with no valid way to know which are working and which are not. To address this challenge, Proving Ground, an initiative of the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, has launched a collaborative network of state, district, and charter management organizations that makes analytical results more readily available and widespread in order to learn together about what is working and what is not in U.S. education. The goal is to provide education leaders with better evidence in order to inform decision making, improve implementation, and assess impact. This grant supports the development and launch of an Institute to provide intensive support to pipeline districts not yet in the network.
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For support of the Brooklyn STEAM Center
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
New models of career and technical education (CTE) can prepare students for twenty-first century success by helping them navigate and continually adapt to an increasingly complex labor market. Yet, work-based learning experiences remain out of reach for the majority of students. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), the Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation (BNYDC) has developed the STEAM Center, an educational hub that provides high school students with rigorous, work-based learning opportunities. Through this innovative partnership, BNYDC leverages the professional community at the Navy Yard to convene industry professionals and employers for planning and programming, while NYCDOE runs the instructional components of the STEAM Center. With Corporation support, BNYDC will iterate upon and test program design, develop curriculum and industry-aligned pathways, and document efforts for potential replication.
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For a project to design and implement a professional learning model to support middle school teachers using the Illustrative Math curriculum
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
18 months
Description
Despite decades of attention and research into what mathematics curriculum, teaching, and learning should look like, the United States continues to see large achievement gaps between students in low socioeconomic status schools and their wealthier counterparts. In order to impact mathematics teaching and learning at scale and to close this gap, teachers need access to high-quality curriculum materials and complementary professional learning supported by school and district leaders. Even when schools adopt a coherent K–12 curriculum, well aligned, job-embedded professional learning supports are often missing. Illustrative Mathematics (IM) seeks to develop curriculum-based professional learning supports that produce measurable growth in teachers’ knowledge and quality of instruction. IM has begun to create a three-year learning sequence for districts and teachers implementing the highly rated IM 6–8 Math curriculum. With support from the Corporation, IM will develop year two of the professional learning to support teachers and work with an external evaluator to measure changes in teachers’ practices using the curriculum.
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For support of e/merge Africa e-learning professional development network
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
36 months
Description
African universities are increasingly requiring infrastructure and staff capabilities for online blended learning. During 2016 student protest campus shutdowns in South Africa, vice chancellors required faculty to deploy blended learning remotely to avoid delays in course completion, for example. In this context, e/merge Africa, a professional development network, draws on African and global expertise to bring educators, educational technologists, and administrators together to learn about innovative approaches to teaching with technology. Since inception in 2014, e/merge Africa has grown to over one thousand participants from thirty-four African countries. With Corporation renewed support, e/merge Africa will develop an online workshop series on teaching with technology, facilitate short courses, and support researchers to build capacity of the next generation of academics.
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For support of the Robust and Equitable Measures to Identify Quality Schools (REMIQS) project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
15 months
Description
Student success in the twenty-first century is predicated upon more than academic performance, yet school quality evaluations continue to be over-reliant on academic indicators. While there are examples of good practice, there are neither nuanced measures nor universal structures to identify those schools that are beating the odds with underserved populations. The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which requires schools to report against at least one non-academic indicator, opens new opportunities to evaluate school quality beyond test scores. Jobs for the Future’s (JFF) Robust and Equitable Measures to Identify Quality Schools (REMIQS) project will provide a model and rationale for incorporating a broader definition of student success into school quality evaluations, moving the field closer to using more authentic, contextual, and responsive data sources to identify bright spots that may be scaled, particularly for the benefit of underserved students. With Corporation support, JFF will refine the REMIQS design, prepare for implementation, and communicate the design and its findings to cross-sector stakeholder audiences.
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For a project on the implications of small satellites and defense innovation for nuclear security and strategic stability
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
14 months
Description
Advances in small satellite technologies and defense innovation will affect crisis stability and arms control in both positive and negative ways. This project at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM) focuses on two particular challenges. First, the project will assess the growth in the use of small satellites and their implications for nuclear early warning. The second line of work, on defense innovation, will examine the extent to which certain emerging dual-use technologies are weaponizable, and will suggest approaches for improved trans-Atlantic cooperation to prevent proliferation. Both efforts will shed light on under-explored topics and outline options for policymakers. This grant will contribute toward the studies and their dissemination.
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For a project to track funds raised from undisclosed sources that are spent by political campaigns
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
An exponential growth of funding from undisclosed sources is influencing American elections and policymaking. In 2018, super political action committees (PACs) and politically active nonprofits—which are not required to disclose their donors—have already spent $146 million on congressional races, not including advertisements run by more than 35,000 dark money groups that did not disclose spending to the Federal Election Commission. The Center for Responsive Politics is a nonpartisan and independent research group that tracks political spending in the United States and its effect on elections and public policy. With Corporation support, the Center for Responsive Politics will engage, train, collaborate with, and build the capacity of journalists and advocates to examine undisclosed funding from industries, lobbyists, and wealthy donors.
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For strengthening the guardrails in U.S.-Russian relations
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
With a focus on U.S.-Russia relations, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) will convene a group of American and Russian experts and former policy officials to identify areas where targeted bilateral efforts can contribute to mitigating the risks of confrontation. The discussions will include topics of critical national and international security with the aim of developing actionable recommendations to both U.S. and Russian governments. The work will result in policy memos, publications, and outreach.
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For a U.S.-Russia track II by the Nuclear Crisis Group
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
6 months
Description
Global Zero launched the Nuclear Crisis Group in early 2017 to channel the organization’s efforts to prevent international flashpoints from escalating to the nuclear threshold. The Nuclear Crisis Group, in collaboration with the Arms Control Association, will convene a US-Russian Track II meeting in July 2018. The initiative builds on work by the Global Zero Commission on Nuclear Risk Reduction, which has examined the risk of nuclear weapons use in all of the nuclear-armed countries and outlined pragmatic measures to reduce those risks.
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For sharing and disseminating stories of youth leadership and advocacy
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
15 months
Description
Young people across the country have the most at stake in the education system, but they are frequently left out of important discussions that impact their learning in classrooms and schools. Peace First is a nonprofit organization that invests in young people’s ideas, providing them tools and skills to connect with other young leaders in order to improve their schools and communities. During their latest Peace First Challenge, Peace First, with Corporation support, worked with young people directly to create a national platform for integrating their voice and developing their project ideas to improve their schools and communities. With further support from the Corporation, Peace First will share and disseminate the powerful stories of youth-led change collected through their national platform as well as through their network of young people with a multi-phased, multi-faceted storytelling campaign that will elevate and amplify the social change young people are creating together with their adult allies, further strengthening a growing community of young leaders.
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As a one-time grant for the podcast "Space-Bridge!", a production of showcase from Public Radio Exchange's Radiotopia
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Launched in 2003, Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is a public media company that reaches more than 25 million people each month, on-air, across the U.S., and is responsible for more than 43 million monthly podcasts, including the Moth Radio Hour and This American Life. With Corporation support, PRX will produce Space-Bridge!, a four episode podcast recounting the late Cold-War era story on how American and Russian citizens used early technology and a conventional phone line, a predecessor to the internet, to create a diplomacy channel without government intervention. Their ability to connect directly fundamentally altered the nature of international relations. The podcasts are being created in partnership with Azarmas Academy, a Russian-language educational website dedicated to the history of culture and aims to expand international understanding of the Cold War, especially among young listeners who are not familiar with that time in history, and how its consequences manifest today.
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For phase two of the International Panel in Exiting Violence
Date
Dec. 06, 2018
Duration
31 months
Description
Diverse forms of transnational violence continue to affect Europe and the Arab region. The leading social science council of France is generating problem-solving research on entry points and exit strategies for social and violent conflict. The International Panel on Exiting Violence (IPEV) unites over 200 experts globally to produce policy options for de-escalating diverse forms of social conflict. With renewed Corporation support, IPEV will broaden and solidify partnerships with Arab region institutions, produce scientific knowledge, hold working groups and workshops, create a digital hub and a journal, and disseminate research results in the Arab region and beyond.
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As a final grant for the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP)
Date
Dec. 06, 2018
Duration
60 months
Description
Scholars and practitioners still have an incomplete understanding of the forces that drive nuclear proliferation. This results, in part, from a lack of access to closed historical archives, has real-world implications. Over the past decade, the Nuclear Proliferation International History Project (NPIHP) has demonstrated its ability to surface new empirical evidence that offers new insights and challenges outdated assumptions. By supporting researchers through an interlinked network of institutions across fifteen countries, NPIHP has helped revitalize the field of nuclear history. The network will continue research into previously closed archives, facilitate collaboration between scholars, and engage the policy community through workshops, briefings, and media outreach. This final grant will consolidate the partner network as part of a decade-long investment in capacity building, archival research, and outreach.
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For developing a national strategy for early child care and education (ages 0-3)
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
15 months
Description
Studies show that early education is critical to ameliorating the stark achievement race- and class-based gaps in cognitive ability that are present at kindergarten entry and that are rarely closed after second grade. However, multiple funding streams, federal and state mandates, and accreditation/licensing requirements have led to a lack of coherence and accountability in early childhood education. Bank Street College of Education plans to engage thought leaders, policymakers, researchers, practitioners, educators, and families in a process of design-thinking around young children’s development, in order to begin to identify locally sourced solutions that pull communities together to support sustainable approaches. The process will culminate in the identification of a national goal for 0-3 care and education and the formulation of a national strategy.
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For a project to develop alignment between research and practice, infrastructures for cross-sector collaboration and competency-based professional learning
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
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Developments in the use of new technologies have demonstrated great promise to improve learning opportunities for all. Yet, the lack of alignment between research and practice, infrastructure for cross-sector collaboration, and relevant, competency-based professional learning for educators impedes the creation of effective teaching and learning solutions. Digital Promise was founded in 2005 to address these gaps, by working with education leaders, researchers, and technology developers to improve learning opportunities. Building on the current grants, Digital Promise will build the capacity of its networks to improve the alignment between research and practice and will test a competency-based professional development program for teachers focused on computational thinking supported by the use of micro-credentials.
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As a one-time grant for the Russian Studies Anniversary Challenge Grant and Russian Scholar Travel Grant Program
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
56 months
Description
Russia has come to the forefront of the American political debate just as federal and university funding for the study of Russian politics, society, history, and language is being reduced. In order to promote the continued cultivation and dissemination of Russian area expertise in these challenging circumstances, the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, with support from the Carnegie Corporation, will aim to bolster long-term support for research, dissertation completion, internships, scholarly exchange and collaboration, and opportunities to disseminate expert knowledge. In addition, the Corporation will support the Russian Scholar Travel Grant Program, which will bring Russian scholars to participate in the 2019 and 2020 annual ASEEES conventions.
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For U.S.-Russian collaboration to improve understanding of the intersections of violent extremism and radiological terrorism
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
10 months
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Building on a series of discussions that have taken place over the last two years, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), together with members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), will continue to explore how sustained inter-academy dialogue among specialists could improve understanding of important aspects of violent extremism. Upcoming workshops in Cairo and Helsinki will focus on the intersection of extremism and radiological terrorism. The project builds on a long history of U.S. and Russian scientist-to-scientist cooperation under the auspices of the NASEM and RAS.
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For a series of dialogues on conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction in Syria
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
The continuation of the Syrian conflict poses ongoing risks to broader regional stability and threatens to escalate proxy conflict among regional and international powers. In this context, engaged efforts among the involved parties to end the fighting and develop a framework for post-conflict reconstruction are crucial. The RAND Corporation, in partnership with the Istanbul-based, Omran Center, and the Geneva Center for Security Policy, is conducting Track II dialogues with relevant Syrian and international interlocutors. The dialogues look for pathways to conflict resolution and post-conflict reconstruction that can sustain future settlements and provide security, governance, and livelihood to affected populations.
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For support of an initiative integrating nonpartisan voter registration into university life
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
Although high school and university students are passionate about various policy issues, they often do not recognize the impact that voting has in addressing them. In 2017, the University of Michigan helped develop the “Big Ten Voting Challenge,” an effort to commit colleges of the Big Ten Conference to registering student voters and educating them on the democratic process. Fourteen universities have conducted nonpartisan voter registration drives, voter education, and get-out-the-vote activities designed to engage voters on their campuses. The University of Michigan has also been sharing educational materials and strategies with numerous universities and national associations, beyond the conference. With Corporation support, the University of Michigan will continue to develop and monitor nonpartisan efforts to integrate voter engagement on college campuses, before disseminating its findings nationally.
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As a final grant for its Homeland Security Project
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
12 months
Description
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Homeland Security Project is a bipartisan group of national security, terrorism, and intelligence experts committed to providing an active, bipartisan voice on national security issues. Under the leadership of the former chairmen of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States (commonly known as the 9/11 Commission), former Governor Thomas Kean and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, the Homeland Security Project, is partnering with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on a congressionally mandated study to help develop a plan that addresses the root causes of terrorism. With Corporation support, the Bipartisan Policy Center will work with USIP to build upon its previous work on the evolution of the terrorist threat to create a comprehensive plan to respond to emerging security challenges.
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For a project to launch district and school partnerships to implement new science standards with high-quality instructional materials
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
21 months
Description
Despite the adoption of new college and career-ready standards around the country many teachers still find themselves unprepared to teach at the level of rigor required to move these standards into implementation. Similarly, districts find themselves ill equipped to support their educators in making this shift. Instruction Partners recognizes the need in districts for instructional support and access to in-depth professional development. Their work over the past three years has successfully aided districts and schools in improving their instruction in math and English Language Arts. This grant will support Instruction Partners in developing internal capacity to support science instruction with a middle and high school science pilot program and middle school science specific professional development in Tennessee.
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For support of an initiative coordinating national, state, and local level grantmaking efforts
Date
Dec. 06, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
Without access to reliable, low-cost legal services, immigrants are more likely to fall prey to fraudulent legal practitioners and experience abuse in various sectors of society, impeding their ability to integrate. However, due to the escalating policy challenges in the field of immigration, foundations and nonprofit organizations are struggling to coordinate their efforts to meet the growing needs of immigrants and refugees. Established in 1990, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) is a hub and informational resource for funders who are active in or new to the immigration field. GCIR coordinates the Delivering on the Dream initiative, a network of twenty local funder collaboratives in fifteen states across the country. With Corporation support, GCIR’s Delivering on the Dream collaboratives will bring new foundations into the immigration space and connect national funders with local, state, and regional philanthropy, helping to cultivate strategic and long-term partnerships that help local stakeholders fill gaps in immigration legal services.
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For continued implementation of strategic school and district redesign partnerships at scale
Date
Sep. 13, 2018
Duration
24 months
Description
While innovative K-12 educational models are now more prevalent than they were a decade ago, many students still lack access to the robust learning experiences these models afford. In order to expand student access to these experiences, school- and district- level capacity must be built to support innovation, quality implementation, and effective change management. This is precisely the work of Education Resource Strategies (ERS), a national nonprofit transforming how urban schools and systems organize people, time, and money so that every school is designed to serve every student. Through partnerships with districts, schools, and state leaders, ERS enables districts to develop and implement comprehensive improvement strategies that support strong schools with an integrated data analysis, design, and implementation model. With Corporation support, ERS will continue to support states and districts in effective resource management and undertake field-building activities to support schools beyond ERS’ direct engagements.
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