The Washington Independent

Using a more comprehensive metric, a report issued (PDF) by the New America Foundation found that 15 percent of graduates defaulted, while 21 percent were delinquent on their payments. But despite the costs and risks of falling behind in payments, ...

According to New America Foundation's Jennifer Cohen, an education policy analyst, the Harkin plan would force states to increase funding in poorer districts with its teacher comparability provision. Right now, states must demonstrate through an ...

Bergen, CNN's national security analyst and director of NAF's National Security Studies Program, shared an exchange he had with a senior commander. Bergen asked why the 10th Mountain Division — a light-infantry unit with specialized training to fight ...

Jennifer Cohen, an education policy analyst at the New America Foundation in Washington, DC, wrote in an email that states were allowed to roll back their education contributions to 2006 levels, with SFSF dollars filling in the void. ...

Those out-of-school variations were highlighted during a discussion at the New America Foundation last week. The particular struggles of low-wage hourly workers were examined, demystifying some of the quotidian challenges families of low-income ...

Jennifer Cohen, a senior policy analyst with the education policy program at the New America Foundation, wonders whether instructional time should be viewed only through the lens of test scores. “I would like to see a study that focuses on high school ...

So, 19 months into the Obama administration, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget took the time to tally up the various stimulus measures. ...

... “There is not a big functional difference between [a budget and a budget enforcement resolution], but there is a big symbolic difference,” said Maya MacGuineas, the head of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. ...

Sean McFate,a fellow with the New America Foundation and foreign policy adviser to the Obama campaign who used to work for McChrystal as a young officer with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, said the administration’s approach in Afghanistan had yet to resolve a fundamental “disunity” that stretches beyond the personalities at the top of particular civilian and military billets.

Both of the principle authors of New America’s drone strike survey, Peter Bergen and Katherine Tiedemann, are on vacation, but they both still (generously) addressed my questions. All three researchers — Bergen, Tiedemann and Williams — appeared to agree that New America was more methodologically aggressive than Williams in counting as civilians all who could not be clearly identified as militants, which perhaps accounts for the variance in their results.