Tag: Harvard Kennedy School

  • Nation & World

    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.

    6 minutes
    Magda Matache.
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    It’s spy vs. spy vs. spy

    Newly named general editor of a book project documenting espionage and intelligence throughout human history, Harvard Kennedy School senior fellow Calder Walton discusses the context of the FBI’s investigation into President Trump’s connections to Russia and how spies and spying have evolved over centuries.

    14 minutes
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    A ‘Prisoner’ story

    Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, a 2017 Harvard Nieman Fellow, and his Iranian wife, journalist Yeganeh Rezaian, a fall 2016 Shorenstein Fellow, talk about their experiences as prisoners of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

    5 minutes
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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.

    3 minutes
    Thomas Kane
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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.

    13 minutes
    Tom Brady leads the Patriots onto the field.
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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.

    7 minutes
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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.

    15 minutes
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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.

    3 minutes
    Tobias Bear.
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    A new chief at Center for Public Leadership

    Former Ambassador Wendy R. Sherman, who has held numerous top posts in the State Department and on Capitol Hill and led the U.S. negotiations with Iran over nuclear weapons that resulted in a historic 2015 accord, is set to helm the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School in January. She talks to the…

    12 minutes
    Wendy R. Sherman
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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.

    3 minutes
    Larry Bacow speaks with Chrissy Houlahan, Elissa Slotkin, Elaine Luria, Mikie Sherrill, and Kim Schrier.
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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.

    4 minutes
    Bryan Stevenson at the Kennedy School.
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    John Kerry, still in the game

    During a visit to Harvard, former Secretary of State John Kerry encourages students to do more than show up to vote: to take action.

    7 minutes
    John Kerry and IOP fellows
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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.

    9 minutes
    Juan Manuel Santos.
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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.

    4 minutes
    Douglas Lute (from left), Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, Kevin Ryan, and Daniel Hoffman
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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.

    4 minutes
    U.S. flag on cracked background.
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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.

    9 minutes
    Mid-term election night
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    Mourning Devah Pager

    An academic ‘force of nature,’ Harvard sociologist Devah Pager is remembered for her trailblazing scholarship, extraordinary mentorship.

    4 minutes
    Devah Pager.
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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.

    13 minutes
    Harvard voter registration drive.
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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.

    4 minutes
    Niall Ferguson.
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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.

    6 minutes
    Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Khalil Abdur-Rashid.
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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.

    4 minutes
    Nancy Pelosi at Harvard's IOP.
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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.

    5 minutes
    Archon Fung of Harvard
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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.

    14 minutes
    Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer
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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.

    36 minutes
    Storefront in Laredo, Texas.
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    Former president, CEO of NAACP joins Kennedy School

    The former president and CEO of the NAACP, Cornell William Brooks, has joined the Harvard Kennedy School as professor of the practice of public leadership and social justice. He is the first leader of a national Civil Rights organization to join the School’s senior faculty.

    5 minutes
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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.

    3 minutes
    Wendy Sherman
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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.”

    4 minutes
    Elorm Avakame,
  • Nation & World

    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.

    4 minutes
    Cui Cui Chen,