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Feds Fear Tax Dollars Wasted at For-Profit Colleges | Washington Examiner

August 18, 2010

... director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, speaking on a recent panel held by the New America Foundation. ...

ACLU Wants to Know the Legal Basis for CIA Drone Strikes | The Washington Independent

January 13, 2010

A recent New America Foundation report arguing that most drone critics overstate overstate civilian casualties still found that one in every three ...

Al-Qaeda Is (Almost) Finished | The Washington Independent

September 10, 2009
I recall Peter Bergen, who knows as much about al-Qaeda as any US analyst, predicting that it would cease to exist within the next five years. ...

Gates Signals Troop Increase Likely in Afghanistan | The Washington Independent

September 3, 2009
A prominent critic, Michael Cohen, a defense analyst at the New America Foundation, has been blogging for months a feature called “Afghanistan Mission Creep ...

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Obama Faces Rising Anxiety on Afghanistan | The Washington Independent

August 12, 2009
... “More and more people are questioning the underlying assumptions of the whole thing,” observed Michael Cohen, a New York-based scholar with the New America Foundation who began running a feature on a progressive foreign-policy blog, Democracy Arsenal, called Afghanistan Mission Creep Watch. ...

GOP Support for No Child Left Behind Conflicts With Attacks on Sotomayor | The Washington Independent

May 27, 2009
“The No Child Left Behind Act is a civil rights law that triggers government action based on the status of racial groups,” said Michael Dannenberg, senior fellow at the New America Foundation and former senior education counsel to Sen. ...

School of Hock | The Washington Independent

April 30, 2009
Public policy think tank New America Foundation pointed out in an online article Kanjorski's personal interest in keeping this lending powerhouse healthy; earlier this month, it shifted several hundred jobs into his eastern Pennsylvania district. ...

GOP Stimulus Playbook Useless in Health Care Battle | The Washington Independent

February 13, 2009
“Paul Ryan is a real force in that conference,” said Len Nichols, the director of the Healthy Policy Program at the progressive New America Foundation, ...

The Case for Building Schools

  • By
  • Sara Mead,
  • New America Foundation
January 28, 2009 |

As Congress debates a roughly $825 billion economic stimulus package, many interest groups want to make sure their pet programs get a piece of the action. The education community is no exception.

Various advocates are urging Congress to use the stimulus to fund universal pre-k, expanded after-school programs, education technology, and new teacher compensation packages, among other education initiatives.

Obama Signals Change for HUD | The Washington Independent

December 16, 2008
Ellen Seidman of the New America Foundation, who studies the financial services industry, said friends she knew worked for Cisneros sometimes thought “blow ...
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