Five Things to Know About High Quality in Kindergarten
There is a lot we need to rethink about kindergarten.
Ten Lives
For five years, Mona Chalabi followed ten people with ten different incomes, documenting how wealth shaped their choices, identities, and insecurities—and asking how much wealth it takes to be safe in the United States.
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12PM – 1PM EST
The Inheritance
Janet Reitman traces the lives of nine Americans over three decades, from the end of the Reagan era to the present day, in an intimate account of how a country revered for its democratic ideals became a nation defined by its fears.
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12PM – 1PM EST
Inconceivable
Anna Louie Sussman explores what is keeping us from having the families we desire, showing how decades of policy choices that elevated profits over people have left young people unable to envision a future with children.
Virtual
12PM – 1PM EST
Seasons of Fury
Rozina Ali narrates a sweeping history of the U.S. government’s broken compact with its Muslim citizens, following four families across eight decades of surveillance, detention, and prejudice.
Virtual
12PM – 1PM EST
Tackling Housing Insecurity in Los Angeles
A practical five-step framework for reducing housing insecurity in Los Angeles, from permitting reform to investing in people.
Insights to Action
In-depth conversation with state and local leaders about building and sustaining early childhood funding strategies and workforce supports.
Virtual
1PM – 2:30PM EST
Building Governing Machinery for the Next Pro-Democracy Moment
Sabeel K. Rahman and Sam Berger offer principles for a federal reinvention.
Powering Democracy with Citizens’ Assemblies
The Wars We Failed to Understand: A Review of Peter Bergen’s All the Presidents’ Wars
"A timely book": The Small Wars Journal reviews Peter Bergen's All the Presidents' Wars.
The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time—and How to Fix It
Join the New Practice Lab and Annie Lowrey to discuss how government paperwork steals families’ time—and what fixing it could mean to Americans.
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New America | 740 15th St NW #900 Washington, DC 20005
What’s in the Trump Administration’s New Head Start Rule?
The proposed rule amounts to a sweeping rollback of the federal standards that have defined Head Start’s quality and scope for decades.
Three Months Without a Strike Against the Islamic State in Somalia
Future Security Program Deputy Director David Sterman examines the questions reaised by a three month lull in strikes agains tthe Islamic State in Somalia.