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Simons Foundation Announces 2018 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

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04/02/2018

Simons Foundation Announces 2018 Simons Fellows in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics The Simons ... have been awarded Simons Fellowships in 2018. The Simons Fellows program extends academic leaves from one term...

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Open Society Foundations Announces 2013 Soros Justice Fellows

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05/15/2013

... and established social justice leaders, the fourteen fellows include investigative journalists, lawyers, ... award of $1.2 million to the 2013 cohort of Soros Justice Fellows . The fellows , a...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

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09/01/2016

In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

The report -- titled “Looking in All the Wrong Places” -- is based on an analysis of more than 6,000 pages of audit documents that were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2018 Leadership in Government Fellows

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03/05/2018

... Society Foundations Announce 2018 Leadership in Government Fellows Developing policies to better protect refugee ... The program, now in its second year, is intended to help fellows build on their time in the...

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TCF Senior Fellow Barton Gellman Wins Third Pulitzer

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04/30/2014

The Century Foundation Senior Fellow Barton Gellman wins third Pulitzer for his Washington Post coverage of the National Security Agency's massive surveillance program.

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Century Foundation Fellow on Legacy Admissions Begetting Educational Inequality

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07/29/2016

“This is a preference that preferences the already advantaged,” observed Richard Kahlenberg, a Senior Fellow at The Century Foundation and a prolific writer on higher education issues.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status

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08/12/2016

Bob Shireman, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, said the department’s decision on the application should put an end to colleges’ attempts to dodge oversight by converting to nonprofit status.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

Under a program known as Public Service Loan Forgiveness, some student loan borrowers were supposed to be able to have the balance of their student loans forgiven after ten years of both on-time payments and eligible work in the public sector. Last...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on Trump Policy for Student Loan Forgiveness

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12/14/2016

Education Department officials say they will work through Jan. 20 to review claims of defrauded students, but borrowers and advocates call for more urgency.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments On Supreme Court Ruling On Affirmative Action

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06/24/2016

By upholding a University of Texas admissions policy, the Supreme Court has boosted those seeking to look at diversity more deeply.

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Century Foundation Fellow Weighs in on UT Affirmative Action Case

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12/11/2015

In an awkward exchange in Wednesday’s potentially game-changing Supreme Court arguments on affirmative action, Justice Antonin Scalia hesitantly asked whether it might be better for black students to go to “a slower-track school where they do well”...

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Century Foundation Fellow in NYTimes OpEd: Strong Unions Equals Strong Democracy

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01/12/2016

Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, writes about the U.S. Supreme Court's potential to weaken public sector labor unions.

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Century Foundation Fellow: Will Trump’s ACA Order Reduce Burden or Shift It to Patients?

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01/25/2017

In an executive order signed on his first day in office, President Trump stated his support for a “prompt repeal” of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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