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Reply Comments on E-rate Modernization
WC Docket No. 13-184
The New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute and Education Policy Program submitted joint reply comments to the Federal Communications Co...
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Hamilton Project Papers
The Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution has recently released three policy papers focused on improving college outcomes through changes i...
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Youth Savings Uptake: Nature or Nurture?
This is the third and final installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report,...
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Improving Gainful Employment
Suggestions for Better Accountability
President Barack Obama took to the Northeast in late August to unveil a new plan for college affordability. Standing before raucous crowds at sever...
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Success for All with i3 Program
The Success for All program, a school improvement effort funded with federal Investing in Innovation (i3) dollars, seems to be a success. A new eva...
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The Kings of Candyland
Roaming the candy aisle of my neighborhood Safeway around Halloween is a dizzying encounter with choice. Towering stacks of sumptuous sweets gliste...
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A Year After Sandy, Food and Fuel Supplies Are As Vulnerable As Ever
A year ago, Hurricane Sandy revealed harrowing realities about the basic systems New Yorkers rely on every day. We now know, for example, what happ...
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Building Pop-up Mesh Networks
The Open Technology Institute recently conducted a training on how to build pop-up mesh networks using Commotion. Our goal was to quickly deploy a ...
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Trends in College Pricing 2013 & Trends in Student Aid 2013
The College Board recently released its two annual reports on the price of college and student financial aid.Trends in College Pricing 2013 provide...
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If You Build It Who Will Come?
This is the second installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings ...
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Education Pays 2013: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Families
A recentreport from The College Board provides analysis on differences in earnings and employment rates of U.S. adults with various levels of educa...
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Taking the Bank to the Youth
This is the first installment of our latest blog series, Understanding YouthSavers, which highlights the findings of CSD's recent report, Savings P...
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The 70-Year-Old Trophy Wife
When envisioning a gleaming, medically enhanced future in which things like implant technology, super-personalized medicine, and organ regeneration...
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The Fed is About to Make Owning Physical Assets a Game All Banks Can Play
Last week, Federal Reserve officials leaked to the Wall Street Journal their tentative plan to limit the ability of Goldman Sachs and big banks to ...
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The Jetson Fallacy
When envisioning a gleaming, medically enhanced future in which things like implant technology, super-personalized medicine, and organ regeneration...
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"Understanding YouthSavers" Blog Series to Launch This Week
When YouthSave first started, one of our key research goals was to find out how low income youth aged 12 to 18 would respond when financial institu...
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New York's Looming Food Disaster
Hurricane Sandy exposed striking vulnerabilities in the city's supply chains.
In New York City, locating a bite to eat is rarely a difficult task. The city is a food paradise or, depending on your mood, a place of overwhelmin...
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Pervasive surveillance, individual freedoms, and collective justice
The problem of pervasive surveillance technologies drums up passionate defenses of individual freedom and civil liberties, but what about collectiv...
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Is Mobile Finance for Youth a Dream Come True? An Infographic Explains Why It's Not Yet
It is getting harder and harder to discuss youth financial inclusion without heralding mobile technology. The mobile phone seems to have stolen the...
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Performance Based Funding: The National Landscape
A recentreport from the Education Policy Center at the University of Alabama highlights the current status of states’ work with performance-based f...
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Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2011-2012
The Council of Graduate Schools recently reported a 1.8% increase in first-time enrollment of graduate students and a 2.3% decline in total enrollm...
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Syrian war's brutality isn't going away
A gruesome snuff video that has garnered more than 180,000 views on YouTube underlines just how grim the Syrian conflict has become.