300 Million Engines of Growth
For America to lead innovation in the 21st century, we have to make sure that our people are skilled and educated, operating in an economic environment that is conducive to their success and that allows them to compete at home and abroad. Read more →
Improving Lives, Strengthening Finances: The Benefits of Immigration Reform to Social Security
Providing an earned pathway to legal status and citizenship for undocumented immigrants will improve the solvency of Social Security.
It’s Time to Hit the Reset Button on the Fiscal Debate
Over the past three years, both the underlying fiscal landscape and the broader economic context for the fiscal debate have shifted in very important ways, yet the debate has remained remarkably static.
Race and Ethnicity
Witness to Whiteness
A performance artist explores her life to discover and reveal what it feels like to be white in America.
Energy and Environment
Rockets Top Submarines: Space Exploration Dollars Dwarf Ocean Spending
Federal space-exploration spending outpaces ocean spending by more than 150 to 1, even though we already have better maps of Mars than we do of the ocean floor
Education
The Teachers-as-Policy-Analysts Yearbook
Interactive
A number of grassroots organizations and fellowships have recently emerged in locations across the United States with the goal of giving teachers a stronger voice in the policies that affect their daily work in the classroom.
Education
Teachers Talk Policy
Video
This video features teachers from across the United States who are members of new teacher-voice organizations and fellowships—groups whose missions involve getting more teachers’ voices heard in education-policy discussions.
Education
New Organizations, New Voices
Report
As education policies have evolved and recent policy initiatives have worked to expose the organizational and structural barriers to improving teaching, teacher
voice in policy is perhaps more relevant and important than ever before.
Civil Liberties
Lost and Stolen Guns from Gun Dealers
Issue Brief
Congressional budget restrictions have made it harder for police to stop guns from disappearing from gun-dealer inventories.
National Security
Pragmatist Rowhani Wins, Now What?
Iran’s new president could improve relations with the West but is unlikely to change Tehran’s nuclear posture.
Education
Who Is In Charge of Teacher Preparation?
Issue Brief
The redundancy and fragmented structure of the governance of teacher training is handcuffing the effort to improve education for children.
Religion and Values
6 Ways Faith Communities Have Helped Prevent Gun Violence Since Newtown
Faith communities are playing an integral role in making communities safer through state gun-violence prevention laws in the wake of the Newtown shooting.
National Security
Entering a New Phase in the Syrian Conflict
The Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons has altered the U.S. role in Syria, but the effect of this new role remains unclear.
Energy and Environment
Fracking Can Strain U.S. Water Supplies
The process of hydraulic fracturing and drilling uses a lot of water, and there’s no silver-bullet alternative to help protect our water sources.
Religion and Values
Faith and the Fast-Food Strikes: An Interview with Rev. Liz Muñoz
Jack Jenkins talks with Rev. Liz Muñoz of Chicago, Illinois, about the fast-food strikes happening across the country and what faith groups and faith leaders are doing to help.
