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A Task Force to focus on strengthening community colleges with the intention of saving them from becoming “separate and unequal” institutions.
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The project featuring an international task force co-chaired by Ambassadors Lakhdar Brahimi and Thomas Pickering, has released its report, Afghanistan: Negotiating Peace. It recommends a political path that might lead to ending the war. TCF received major support for the project from the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and additional support from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung of Germany and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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The Forgotten Homeland: A Century Foundation Task Force Report gathered leading homeland security experts to analyze the nation's most significant vulnerabilities and propose strategies to reduce them.
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The Task Force recommendations of integration through public school choice, rather than forced busing, are based on lessons learned from programs in Wisconsin, Missouri, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. The Task Force also addressed why integration through public school choice is more promising than current strategies such as testing and vouchers.
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The Century Foundation Task Force on Medicare Reform urged policymakers to focus on reducing the economic vulnerability of older Americans and improving their health, rather than basing policy primarily on the Medicare's potential financial difficulties
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In 1998, TCF established a distinguished international Task Force--chaired by Richard Goldstone, the first Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda--to examine what steps the world community should take to bring about a stable peace to war-ravaged Bosnia and maintain the international rule of law.
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In 1996, the TCF gathered a group of distinguished and knowledgeable Americans to consider possible reforms in the process of selection, clearance, and Senate confirmation of presidential appointees.
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A task force convened by The Century Foundation in 1996 identifies several government and corporate strategies that could continuously strengthen the skills and knowledge of many workers, enhance the productivity of the American workforce, and raise prospects for higher U.S. corporate profitability and economic growth.
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In 1996, TCF put together a Task Force to investigate what debate format works best and other ways to make Presidential debates more beneficial to the voting public.
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The Task Force on the Future of U.S. Intelligence identifies four crucial areas for improvement in the intelligence community’s focus, capabilities, and operations.
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In 1992, a TCF Task Force was formed to discuss why negative reporting in the television news industry is not a healthy contributor to American Politics.
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In 1993, the Task Force on Public Television, chaired by Brown University president Vartan Gregorian, concluded that there is a more pressing need than ever for an alternative to the market-driven programming offered by commercial stations and cable systems.
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Task Force analysis of the short-term outlook of many U.S. corporations arguing for steeply graduating the capital gains tax according to the length of time an asset is held, changing the tax code to provide equal treatment of debt and equity, and encouraging "relational investing" to involve large institutional shareholders in overseeing the performance of the companies in which they hold stock.
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Obama hasn't made a peep about cutting U.S. support to NATO writes Michael Cohen in Foreign Policy .
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Thanassis Cambanis interviewed on PRI's The World.
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Thanassis Cambanis published in The Atlantic.
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Michael Wahid Hanna quoted in Washington Post.
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The Platform by Peter Osnos.
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Today, higher education is a major force in promoting social mobility, yet colleges and universities seem more concerned with prestige than finding ways to make higher learning more accessible. Rewarding Strivers outlines two high-profile models that colleges and universities can follow in making the American Dream a realistic one for all students.
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The Israeli public has become skeptical about the prospects for a durable peace with the Palestinians and resigned to isolation under nationalist rule rather than trust in internationally promoted accords. Is there still a constituency for peace in the Israeli public? Can it ever gain traction again?
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The Century Foundation, Demos and the Economic Policy Institute have partnered together to help strengthen social insurance programs and develop a road map for a fair and responsible federal budget.
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Heather Schwartz suggests that a promising strategy to make high-poverty schools better involves providing low-income families a chance to live in more-advantaged neighborhoods, where their children can attend low-poverty public schools.
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