Events - The Century Foundation

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

, 1899 L Street NW Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20036, United States

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...

March 21, 2014
At 1:00 pm

, 1016 16th Street NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC, 20036, United States

Encouraging integrated schools in the District of Columbia?

“Parents would express preferences among a cluster of schools, and an algorithm would make matches by balancing personal preferences with the shared civic goal of maximizing socioeconomic integration.” That’s how controlled-choice zones would work in Washington, D.C., as suggested by Sam Chaltain, Richard Kahlenberg, and Michael Petrilli in a recent Washington Post op-ed. Why try...

March 19, 2014
At 2:55 pm

, Pier Sixty Chelsea Piers, 23rd Street and West Side Highway, New York, NY, 10011, United States

Tech Against Human Trafficking and Illicit Networks

TCF senior fellow Patrick Radden Keefe discusses how big data is helping to map, expose, and disrupt illicit technology. Join Keefe for GigaOM's Structure Data conference. Register here.

March 10, 2014
At 10:30 am

, Austin, TX, United States

Snowden 2.0: A Field Report from the NSA Archives

TCF senior fellow Barton Gellman and Cory Doctorow, novelist, co-editor of Boing Boing and former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation discuss NSA leaker Edward Snowden at SXSW Interactive. Gellman looks back at what we have learned from Snowden, what it means, and what we still don't know.

March 3, 2014
At 9:00 am

25 Years From Now: The Case for Diversity and Future of Affirmative Action in the Wake of Fisher

TCF senior fellow Richard D. Kahlenberg will be speaking at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law on March 3 on the topic, “25 Years From Now: The Case for Diversity and Future of Affirmative Action in the Wake of Fisher and Schuette.” Get more details on the symposium here.