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How Can We Be Fair? The Future of Affirmative Action (NIF Issue Guide)
One of the National Issues Forums Institute’s issue guides, How Can We Be Fair? The Future of Affirmative Action outlines this public issue and several choices or approaches to addressing the issue....
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Gambling: Is it a Problem? (NIF Issue Guide)
One of the National Issues Forums Institute’s issue guides, Gambling: Is it a Problem? outlines this public issue and several choices or approaches to addressing the issue. National Issues Forums do...
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Admissions Decisions: Should Immigration Be Restricted? (NIF Issue Guide)
One of the National Issues Forums Institute’s issue guides, Admissions Decisions: Should Immigration Be Restricted? outlines this public issue and several choices or approaches to addressing the issue....
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Jobs: Preparing a Workforce for the 21st Century (NIF Issue Guide)
One of the National Issues Forums Institute’s issue guides, Jobs: Preparing a Workforce for the 21st Century outlines this public issue and several choices or approaches to addressing the issue....
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Community Educators: A Resource for Educating and Developing Our Youth
This 206-page book by Patricia Moore Harbour asserts that the relationships between education, community, and democracy are inseparable and illustrates that education is broader than just schooling....
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No Easy Way Out: Citizens Talk about Tackling the Debt (NIFI Report)
This 2012 report describes findings from National Issues Forums held in 2012 during which people deliberated about possible approaches to dealing with the national debt. Download the 33-page PDF here....
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NIFI Teachers’ Forums
The National Issues Forums Institute provides many resources for teachers. Along with an entire section of their website dedicated to educators (including classroom material, issue guides and course...
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How Can We Stop Mass Shootings in Our Communities? (NIF Issue Advisory)
On February 1, 2013, National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) released an Issue Advisory that contains materials that communities might wish to use in deliberating over the issues raised by the tragic...
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The Four-Legged Stool
This report to the Kettering Foundation focuses on civil society and “the need for a stronger associational life for citizens”. John McKnight, professor emeritus and co-director of the Asset-Based...
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Connections is a yearly periodical published by the Kettering Foundation featuring articles devoted to a theme. Each issue of the foundation’s annual newsletter focuses on a particular area of...
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The Work of Hope: How Individuals & Organizations Can Authentically Do Good
This small book by Richard Harwood of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation was published by the Kettering Foundation Press in 2012. In 1991, Citizens and Politics: A View from Main Street was...
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Connections 2011: The Changing Culture of Learning
Connections is a yearly periodical published by the Kettering Foundation featuring articles devoted to a specific theme. Each issue of the foundation’s annual newsletter focuses on a particular area of...
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What is the 21st Century Mission for Our Public Schools? (NIF Issue Guide)
One of the National Issues Forums Institute’s issue guides, What is the 21st Century Mission for Our Public Schools? outlines this public issue and several choices or approaches to addressing the...
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Higher Education Exchange 2012
The Higher Education Exchange is an annual journal from the Kettering Foundation that serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that...
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Kettering Review December 2012
The Kettering Review is a journal of ideas and activities dedicated to improving the quality of public life in the American democracy. Published by the Kettering Foundation, each issue addresses a...
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Higher Education Exchange 2009
The Higher Education Exchange is an annual journal from the Kettering Foundation that serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that...
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Higher Education Exchange 2008
The Higher Education Exchange is an annual journal from the Kettering Foundation that serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that...
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Higher Education Exchange 2010
The Higher Education Exchange is an annual journal from the Kettering Foundation that serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that...
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Higher Education Exchange 2011
The Higher Education Exchange is an annual journal from the Kettering Foundation that serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that...
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Higher Education Exchange 2007
The Higher Education Exchange is an annual journal from the Kettering Foundation that serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that...
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