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Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now

Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now

Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy: Forecasting Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy: Forecasting Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

Debunking Myths on Student Parent Data Collection

Debunking Myths on Student Parent Data Collection

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression
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Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Harnessing Terrorism Data to Reshape U.S. National Security Policy

Harnessing Terrorism Data to Reshape U.S. National Security Policy

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Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate
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No Place to Land: Housing Insecurity Among Caregiving College Students

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Innovations for Universal Child Care

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Innovations for Universal Child Care

Since the pandemic, private investment in child care has increased. What can we learn from these innovations?

Sep 30, 2022

Haley Swenson, Rebecca Gale, Ai Binh T. Ho

Grow Your Own Educators: A Toolkit for Program Design and Development

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Grow Your Own Educators: A Toolkit for Program Design and Development

A collection of user-friendly research, policy, and practice resources for Grow Your Own practitioners and policymakers.

Sep 29, 2022

Amaya Garcia, Raven DeRamus-Byers, Elena Silva, Julie Brosnan, Ann Duffet, PhD, Richard Dunn, M.Ed., Kevin Entrekin, Christie McLean Kesler, M.Ed., Alexandra Manuel, Jason Greenberg Motamedi, Riker Pasterkiewicz

The Case for Fusion Voting and a Multiparty Democracy in America

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The Case for Fusion Voting and a Multiparty Democracy in America

American democracy is stuck in a hyper-partisan “doom loop” of escalating division and polarization.

Sep 29, 2022

Lee Drutman

Why Community College Bachelor’s Degrees? Similarities and Differences Across Urban and Rural Settings

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Why Community College Bachelor’s Degrees? Similarities and Differences Across Urban and Rural Settings

Community college bachelor’s degrees are making a difference for students in rural and urban communities.

Sep 28, 2022

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What We Know ��Ƶ Redistricting and Redistricting Reform

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What We Know ��Ƶ Redistricting and Redistricting Reform

A systematic analysis of the claim that redistricting commissions can improve the fairness of redistricting.

Sep 19, 2022

Lee Drutman

Who Applied?: Class of 2023 National Fellows Program Applicants

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Who Applied?: Class of 2023 National Fellows Program Applicants

For our Class of 2023, we received 221 applications and awarded 15 fellowships.

Sep 19, 2022

Awista Ayub

Gray Cash: How the U.S. and the Taliban Have Tried and Failed to Fix Afghanistan’s Informal Banking System

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Gray Cash: How the U.S. and the Taliban Have Tried and Failed to Fix Afghanistan’s Informal Banking System

Sep 14, 2022

Qayoom Suroush

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

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Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv explores the fragile line between diagnosis and identity, showing how mental‑illness narratives can define—or trap—the self.

Sep 13, 2022

Rachel Aviv

What Everyone Should Know about Designing Equity-Minded Paid Work-Based Learning Opportunities for College Students

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What Everyone Should Know about Designing Equity-Minded Paid Work-Based Learning Opportunities for College Students

This report seeks to uncover the design and implementation of paid work-based learning programs at community colleges.

Sep 13, 2022

Mauriell H. Amechi

Toolkit for Using Policy to Enable Effective and Supportive Transitions for Children, Families, & Educators

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Toolkit for Using Policy to Enable Effective and Supportive Transitions for Children, Families, & Educators

State and local government officials must work to create systems that enable supportive and effective transitions for children.

Sep 7, 2022

Laura Bornfreund, Elysa Cash, Abbie Lieberman, Aaron Loewenberg, Davida McDonald, John Pruette, Vasilisa Smith

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Real Skills, Real Income: Why Youth Apprenticeship Is Resonating Now

Future-Proofing U.S. Nuclear Policy: Forecasting Outcomes of the Nuclear-Armed Sea-Launched Cruise Missile

Debunking Myths on Student Parent Data Collection

The App Store Accountability Act Poses Serious Concerns for Privacy, Security, and Free Expression

Redrawing School Boundaries for Fairer Funding

Reframing Fusion Voting as a Practical, Powerful Reform Strategy

Harnessing Terrorism Data to Reshape U.S. National Security Policy

Establishing a National Housing Loss Rate

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No Place to Land: Housing Insecurity Among Caregiving College Students

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Innovations for Universal Child Care

Grow Your Own Educators: A Toolkit for Program Design and Development

The Case for Fusion Voting and a Multiparty Democracy in America

Why Community College Bachelor’s Degrees? Similarities and Differences Across Urban and Rural Settings

What We Know ������Ƶ Redistricting and Redistricting Reform

Who Applied?: Class of 2023 National Fellows Program Applicants

Gray Cash: How the U.S. and the Taliban Have Tried and Failed to Fix Afghanistan’s Informal Banking System

Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

What Everyone Should Know about Designing Equity-Minded Paid Work-Based Learning Opportunities for College Students

Toolkit for Using Policy to Enable Effective and Supportive Transitions for Children, Families, & Educators

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What We Know ��Ƶ Redistricting and Redistricting Reform