New America in the News: 2012

New America’s Michael Lind proposed another idea: Use the bond market to create a “national R&D bank” that could tap into private capital, as Maine and California have done. The idea is similar to the “clean energy investment bank” proposed in 2008 to provide debt-financing for private investors to commercialize new research. But both proposals would invariably run into resistance from free-market purists who insist that the government shouldn’t be picking winners and losers.

Lisa Guernsey, director of the Early Education Initiative of the New America Foundation, said educators are now grappling with student test scores to tell what they can reveal about teachers’ abilities.

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Google and the Open Technology Initiative are among the sponsors of the conference. "Antitrust hasn't been the strong suit of many recent Administrations," he said, according to an embargoed copy of his speech, "but Department of Justice and FCC action ...

In his introductory remarks to the debate between Peter Beinart and David Suissa, Rabbi John Rosove set the tone. He sorted out the “ideologues” from the “pragmatists,” clearly favouring the latter as the only group worth listening to.

According to Liza Mundy, reporter for the Washington Post, women are on the brink of success. In the United States and a number of other countries (including Canada) women are already better educated than men, and that gap is growing.

A discussion on testing and education reform, the chat featured writer Dana Goldstein and teachers Mark Anderson and Tara Brancato. During the hour we were live, over two-hundred readers stopped by, many of them educators.

Public Knowledge, New America Foundation and Consumers Union told the FCC in comments on that proposal that the commission would be essentially boosting the value of that DirecTV by billions of dollars without competitive bidding, so would need to ...

HILLSBOROUGH, NH -- Mitt Romney had a book recommendation for supporters in New Hampshire on Friday, telling them he is reading the latest tome about the Obama administration -- Noam Scheiber's "The Escape Artists: How Obama's Team Fumbled the Recovery ...

In Pakistan alone, the New America Foundation reports US forces have launched 297 drone strikes killing at least 1800 people, three to four hundred of whom were not even combatants. Other investigative journalists report four to eight hundred civilians ...