Events - The Century Foundation

June 17, 2014
At 8:00 am

The New Internationalism: Foreign Policy After Afghanistan and Iraq

TCF fellow Michael Cohen joins other panelists to discuss foreign policy after the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. The American Conservative with The American Prospect and the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies will host the event in Washington, D.C. After more than a decade of the War on Terror, a broad new foreign policy consensus...

June 11, 2014
At 12:00 pm

Educational Justice and the Integration of America’s Schools

TCF senior fellow Richard Kahlenberg joins the Shanker Institute for a panel discussion marking the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. Today, the promise of that historic decision remains unfulfilled. The progress made toward desegregating American schools has not simply stalled, but is increasingly being reversed across the nation. Today, New York schools...

June 10, 2014
At 8:30 am

Inequality Begins at Birth: Child Poverty in America

Join TCF's newest fellow Jeff Madrick for a day-long event to discuss America's child poverty problem. The conference, Inequality Begins at Birth: Child Poverty in America, is sponsored by The Century Foundation’s Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative, the Roosevelt Institute and the Academic Pediatric Association. America’s child poverty rate, currently above 22 percent—the highest in the developed world—is one of...

May 27, 2014
At 11:45 am

Richard Kahlenberg speaks at National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development

On May 27, 2014, from 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., TCF senior fellow Richard Kahlenberg will give a keynote lecture for the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development in Austin, TX. Hear from “best-in-class” general session keynote speakers and be inspired by their insights and advice. Gain valuable information from some of the brightest stars...

May 20, 2014
At 9:00 pm

FRONTLINE presents “United States of Secrets” feat. Barton Gellman

TCF senior fellow Barton Gellman is featured in the new FRONTLINE special, United States of Secrets. — How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans? In United States of Secrets, a two-part series airing May 13 and 20, FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government’s...

May 14 - 13, 2014
At 6:30 pm

Degrees of Inequality: A Conversation with Suzanne Mettler and MSNBC’s Joy Reid

You're invited to join TCF fellow Suzanne Mettler as she discusses her new book, Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream with MSNBC's Joy Reid. Degrees of Inequality dissects student aid policies and calls attention to the problems of rising tuition prices, high student loan debt, and weak employment prospects....

April 10 - 11, 2014
At 10:00 pm

Defying Injustice: Lessons from Defeating Apartheid to the Arab Spring

This interactive dialogue, led by Gay McDougall, brings together scholars, researchers and activists from diverse social movements to consider how the fight against apartheid can inform current social movements. Join TCF senior fellow Michael Wahid Hanna and other panelists for this exciting event. The profound transformations that were the goals of the movement against apartheid...

April 10, 2014
At 2:00 pm

Neighborhoods with Concentrated Poverty with Paul Jargowsky, Patrick Sharkey, Ta-Nehisi Coates

On Thursday, April 10 at 2 p.m. ET, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) and The Century Foundation will hold a discussion on the long-term and devastating impact growing up in high-poverty neighborhoods has on children, with leading experts TCF's Paul Jargowsky, NYU's Patrick Sharkey, Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic and Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP...

March 28, 2014
At 2:45 pm

Diversity in Higher Education Post-Fisher

TCF senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg will participate in a discussion about race-based and class-based affirmative action as solutions for diversity in higher education, as part of The University of Texas at Austin School of Law's Diversity in Higher Education Post-Fisher conference.

March 27, 2014
At 11:30 am

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Degrees of Inequality: How the Politics of Higher Education Sabotaged the American Dream

From the 1940s, with the introduction of the G.I. Bill, through the 1970s, with the creation of Pell Grants, the federal government and states transformed American higher education from a bastion of privilege into a path to the American dream. But in the years since, this progress has stopped, and in fact, reversed itself. Instead...

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