Tag: Harvard Kennedy School
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Serbian Roma children face discrimination in school
Madga Matache is the head of the Roma Program at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (Harvard FXB), where she is shedding light on the lives of Romani children and teens who continue to face racism and discrimination in and out of the classroom.
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The push for campus election clout
The Institute of Politics’ National Campaign for Political and Civic Engagement weekend-long conference drew approximately 125 students and school administrators, who shared notes on campus voting initiatives in the 2018 elections and brainstormed how to expand on them in 2020.
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New center takes Harvard into rural schools
With the launch of a new national initiative and a network of district partners, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University will partner with rural schools to move the needle on absenteeism and college readiness and enrollment.
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An inside look at the powerful, porous NFL
As Super Bowl LIII approaches, political reporter Mark Leibovich, now a national correspondent for The New York Times magazine and author of the 2013 best-seller “This Town,” discusses the intersection of politics and the National Football League.
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Theda Skocpol, superfan
Theda Skocpol, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard, is passionate about comparative and American politics and social policy. For close to two decades, her second passion has been football.
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Whither that wall
Weeks into a federal government shutdown over the president’s request for money to build a border wall to keep out migrants coming from Central America and Mexico, Harvard analysts discuss the practical, legal, and historical implications of Donald Trump’s possible move to declare a national emergency to bypass congressional opposition.
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A bridge for foster youth
The Ash Center for the Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School has named Works Wonders, a job-training and placement initiative for foster youth in Rhode Island, as winner of its Innovations in American Government Award.
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New congressional members at Harvard
Fresh from their 2018 midterm victories, 63 newly elected members of Congress spent two days at Harvard Kennedy School this week engaging with students and getting an intensive primer from faculty and special guests on what to expect when they take their seats in January.
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Yes, you can change the world, says Bryan Stevenson
When lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, spoke at the Kennedy School Tuesday, his topic was nothing less than changing the world, something that he urged everyone in the capacity crowd to think of as both a responsibility and a possibility.
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A prophet of peace
An interview with Juan Manuel Santos, former president of Colombia and 2016 Peace Prize winner for his efforts to negotiate an agreement that ended a 50-year-long internal conflict and brought peace to Colombia.
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U.S. and Russia, behind the curtains
A high-level intelligence group gathered at Harvard Kennedy School to analyze current relations between the U.S. and Russia, and gauge future goals of each.
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Post-election outlook: Little cooperation
Democratic and Republican strategists came together at Harvard Kennedy School to unpack the midterm election results. In their wake, the panelists agreed that political cooperation may get even rarer in the next two years.
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And the winner is: Who you think it is
Harvard faculty discuss the results of the midterm election and what they portend for governing the nation over the next two years and for the run-up to the presidential election in 2020.
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Mourning Devah Pager
An academic ‘force of nature,’ Harvard sociologist Devah Pager is remembered for her trailblazing scholarship, extraordinary mentorship.
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The election just ahead
Here’s a close-up look at three areas where efforts are well along to understand and safeguard Tuesday’s important election.
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Lessons of the last financial crisis
The last global financial crisis was just beginning when Niall Ferguson published his seminal book “The Ascent of Money” in 2008. He came to the Harvard Kennedy School Wednesday to warn that history could repeat itself.
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A professor’s journey to belief
As part of a speaker series, Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad shares his winding past toward belief.
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Pelosi sees Democrats retaking House
At the moment, the question isn’t whether Democrats are going to retake the U.S. House in the midterm elections, House minority leader Nancy Pelosi said at Harvard Kennedy School. The question is how big the margin will be.
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Turn voting into a celebration, not a chore
A Harvard panel examined statistics to highlight how low voter turnout remains a stubborn challenge to American democracy, while also suggesting possible solutions.
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Champions of the press
New Yorker investigative reporter Jane Mayer and former New York Times editor Jill Abramson will deliver the 29th Theodore H. White Lecture at Harvard Kennedy School Tuesday evening.
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A summer of service to cities
Through the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, student fellows this summer helped mayors around the nation to improve the lives of residents.
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Wendy Sherman appointed professor and director at HKS
Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, will join Harvard Kennedy School in January as professor of the practice of public leadership and the director of the School’s Center for Public Leadership.
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Drive behind pursuing concurrent degrees
Elorm Avakame chose to pursue a concurrent M.P.P./M.D. degree at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School because “in Medical School, we are all training to be doctors, but here at the Kennedy School, people are training for so many different walks of life.”
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When is the price right?
Cuicui Chen, who received her Ph.D. in Public Policy, says her research underscores the importance of drawing upon accurate beliefs when making market-based decisions.