Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021
Dedicated to the “Future of Learning and Democracy,” the Spring 2021 edition of Carnegie Reporter magazine explores ideas for strengthening education’s foundational connections to our democracy and economy. Among the highlights: Sonia Sotomayor on What We Owe Our Children | Vartan Gregorian on Teachers | John B. King, Jr., Margaret Spellings, John C. White on American Education | LaVerne Evans Srinivasan on Achieving Equity, Rigor, and Relevance | Marcelo Suárez-Orozco on Immigration and Higher Education | Martha Minow on Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- ReadPicture This: The Value of Connecting Families and Schools
In a portfolio of Zoom portraits, stakeholders in an upended education system reflect on how they are making it work during a time of nearly unprecedented upheaval. Overcoming challenges is a team effort and families are key to achieving lasting improvements
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Family & Community Engagement
- ReadAmerican Education: What We Absolutely Can and Should Be Doing
In a pandemic-induced moment when the American education system has been blown into 25 million homes across the country, where do we go from here?
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Future of Learning & Work - ReadWhat Changes to the U.S. Education System Are Needed to Support Long-Term Success for All Americans?
With the pandemic deepening inequities that threaten students’ prospects, the vice president of the Corporation’s National Program provides a vision for transforming our education system from one characterized by uneven and unjust results to one that puts all students on a path to bright futures
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Future of Learning & Work
- ReadTeachers Create the Future of America
While we all agree that education is imperative to the future of our nation and necessary for the strength of our democracy, we often don’t mention the central role of teachers, writes Vartan Gregorian. They deserve both material and moral support as well as our respect
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Future of Learning & Work - ReadHow Curriculum-Based Professional Learning Can Boost Student Outcomes
Most teachers have never experienced the inquiry-based learning we expect them to provide for their students. The Elements, a challenge paper by the Corporation, can help teachers further develop the skills, knowledge, and understanding they need to set all students up for success
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Professional Learning for Educators - ReadCarnegie Insights: Data for Improving the Future of Learning and Democracy
Carnegie Insights surfaces data for improving prospects from cradle to career for all Americans
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Future of Learning & Work - ReadRBG: What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Means to Me — and to Democracy
Harvard’s Martha Minow reflects on the remarkable life of the visionary force for justice: late-night get-togethers, landmark legal rulings, the lived experiences of others, and what truth and justice demand
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021
- ReadWhat We Owe Our Children
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor argues that a healthy civil society is built on a foundation of knowledge and understanding. But the responsibilities that come with citizenship are learned, not inherited
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Citizenship
- ReadWhy the Health of Our Higher Education System Depends on the Children of Immigrants
Marcelo Suárez-Orozco explains why the success of first-generation Americans is a success for everyone
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Immigration - ReadBuilding Bridges on Immigration
With fresh hope for progress in Washington, Carnegie Corporation of New York and other funders continue to support a united approach to fixing the U.S. immigration system
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Immigration
- ReadMeet Naazneen Barma — Bringing Scholarly Insights to Real-World Problems in International Relations
The recently appointed director of the Scrivner Institute of Public Policy belongs to a new generation of scholars who are shaking up the old guard in the national security and foreign policy establishment, bridging the gap between academia and policymakers and the public. But change never comes easy — and allies and mentors matter
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Scholarship & Policy
- ReadContinuing Education for Congress: Building Trust and Expertise — To Get Things Done
Capitol Hill lawmakers and their staffers wrestle with busy schedules that simultaneously call for general knowledge and specialized expertise. And that doesn’t even get to the lack of time and bandwidth. Enter philanthropy-supported congressional education programs
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Emerging Global Order - ReadTreaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Establishes that Nuclear Weapons are Unacceptable
The Corporation’s Carl Robichaud and Karim Kamel examine the importance of the new treaty that outlaws the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons, among other actions
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021Nuclear Threats
- ReadNarrowing Africa’s Digital Divide in Education
A Corporation-supported educational technology network has become a valued resource for higher education professionals in Africa during the COVID-19 crisis — and beyond
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021African Academics - ReadTransforming African Higher Education
A landmark collection of essays offers fresh perspectives on decolonizing the curriculum
Carnegie Reporter Spring 2021African Academics