Ideas that matter
Subtitle: recent work from the Century Institute.
Contributors: Century Institute.
Publisher: Century Foundation Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780870785160
Subjects: Century Institute -- Research; World politics -- 21st century; United States -- Foreign relations -- 21st century; United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009
Table of contents: title: Turnaround schools that work / Rick Kahlenberg; title: Can separate be equal? / Rick Kahlenberg; title: What's next for affirmative action? / Rick Kahlenberg; title: Obama: stay home from Notre Dame's commencement / Rick Kahlenberg and Steve Shadowen; title: Ocean Hill-Brownsville, 40 years later: the lessons of the New York City school strike / Rick Kahlenberg; title: The charter school idea turns 20 / Rick Kahlenberg; title: Educational strategies that work / Greg Anrig; title: An idea whose time has gone / Greg Anrig; title: The state of the nation's health / Maggie Mahar; title: Braveheart / Maggie Mahar; title: The cholesterol con / Maggie Mahar; title: Back to the future / Richard C. Leone; title: The problem with conservatism is conservatism / Greg Anrig; title: Is everyone else doing it?: Indiana's voter identification law in international perspective / Tova Wang and Frederic Charles Schaffer; title: Not so super majorities / Richard C. Leone; title: Flight to worthless IOUs / Richard C. Leone; title: The wild blue yonder / Richard C. Leone; title: Every time a bell rings somebody else goes broke! / Richard C. Leone; title: The regulation gap / Richard C. Leone; title: Don't privatize our spies / Patrick Radden Keefe; title: State secrets / Patrick Radden Keefe; title: Myths about the new wiretapping law / Patrick Radden Keefe; title: Snakeheads and smuggling / Patrick Radden Keefe; title: Israel expects negotiations with Iran to fail / Geneive Abdo; title: False prophets / Geneive Abdo; title: Change for Iran still a long way off / Geneive Abdo; title: Fighting off fatigue: the UN cornerstone of antiterrorism action / Jeffrey Laurenti; title: Relevance and realities: Washington's flirtation with a league of democracies / Jeffrey Laurenti; title: Lessons from Iraq: avoiding the next war / Jeffrey Laurenti; title: Obama gets good grades at the United Nations / Stephen Schlesinger; title: Can the UN save Afghanistan / Stephen Schlesinger; title: A view from Kabul / Morton Abramowitz; title: Tough questions nobody wants to ask / Morton Abramowitz; title: Swat Valley's hidden crisis / Morton Abramowitz; title: The son also rises: Egypt's looming succession struggle / Michael Wahid Hanna; title: Popularity contest / Michael Wahid Hanna.