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Why Do Chinese Students Know More About Money Than Americans Do? | The Atlantic
Reid Cramer: There’s a lot we don’t know about what works in financial education...We don’t know how information translates to knowledge, and there...
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The Costs of Big Data
The article itself, by education journalist Anya Kamenetz, describes Purdue's Course Signals, a kind of semiautomated system to alert students to w...
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Techno Sapiens: The Ghost in the Data Edition
Welcome to Techno Sapiens, a biweekly series of six podcasts hosted by Future Tense fellows, Christine Rosen, senior editor of the New Atlantis: A ...
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Build With, Not For
A #CivicTech Manifesto
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —...
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Staying on Target for College
How Innovation Can Improve the Pipeline to Higher Education
Many prospective students, while qualified and prepared for college, often do not know how to navigate the deadlines and paperwork requirements nec...
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Busting the Buzzword: Social Impact and Civic Innovation
Would you consider adding to the transit infrastructure of your city a civic innovation? Pictured: Capital Bikeshare bikes in Washingtonn, DC. Phot...
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The Next Class of New America Fellows
Washington, DC – New America is pleased to announce the appointment of the following 2015 Fellows who will join us on September 1, under the new le...
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4 Tips for Organizing Unstructured Events Without Going Insane
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —...
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3 Reasons #CivicTech Needs Civic Art
OTI's "People's Tech" table invited visitors to The Tech Embassy to visualize not just what different tech concepts look like today, but what they ...
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New America Announces Appointment of Peter W. Singer as Strategist and Senior Fellow
WASHINGTON, DC— New America is pleased to announce the appointment of leading political and international relations scholar Peter W. Singer as Stra...
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Worse Than Michelle Rhee: Teachers And Public Schools Have A Shocking New ...
"Barry C. Lynn: In another recent conversation occurring on Salon with Thomas Frank, Barry Lynn of the New America Foundation pointed out that the ...
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Neither Bottom-Up Nor Top-Down
3 Tips for Horizontal Organizing
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed withsocial impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality —...
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How to Get Famous
Hao Wu - on his documentary film "The Road To Fame" about the dreams of young acting students at the prestigious acting school in Beijing.
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Building a New AAU
Criteria used to select members of America’s most influential higher education organization are encouraging colleges to adopt policies of exclusion...
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On Accountability and Audience
Why We Didn't Have a Funk Parade Hackathon
Crafting high-quality civic technology — projects and tools designed with social impact in mind — requires thought, creativity, and intentionality ...
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Federal Funding for Students with Disabilities
The Evolution of Federal Special Education Finance in the U.S.
In Federal Funding for Students with Disabilities: The Evolution of Federal Special Education Finance in the U.S., New America provides a history o...
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Info Sharing with NSA is a Non-Starter – and Only One of the New Cybersecurity Bill’s Many Problems
The last time the Senate considered cybersecurity information-sharing legislation was in July 2012, when it took up the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 (...
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Future Tense Initiative Announces Winners of Green Electronics Challenge
WASHINGTON, DC — The Future Tense initiative – a partnership of New America, Arizona State University, and Slate magazine – is pleased to announce ...
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Reply Comments on Auction of Advanced Wireless Services Licenses
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute joined Public Knowledge in submitting comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC...