Recent Multimedia
SUCCESS STRATEGIES FROM HIGH-POVERTY, HIGH-ACHIEVING SCHOOLS
Media Type: SLIDESHOW / YEAR: 2013
How do some schools in high-poverty communities produce remarkable stories of success while others fail? How can we implement strategies that enabled their success in other schools across the country?
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Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
WEBINAR: SUCCESS STRATEGIES FROM HIGH-POVERTY, HIGH ACHIEVING SCHOOLS
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2013
In this webinar, Public Agenda's President Will Friedman, Ph.D. and Director of Research Carolin Hagelskamp, Ph.D. shared findings from the report "Failure Is Not an Option."
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
DAVID REMNICK, EDITOR, THE NEW YORKER
Part of the Maxwell School/Public Agenda Policy Breakfast Series
Media Type: AUDIO PODCAST / YEAR: 2012
Moderated by National Public Radio's Robert Siegel, David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker, discusses life at the famed publication, and shares his perspective on a wide range of issues. (APR 2012)
Issue Area(s): Other
PUBLIC AGENDA INFOGRAPHIC: ENERGY
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
World energy demand is projected to jump 40% over the next twenty years. We need to be prepared in order to meet the need.
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Issue Area(s): Energy & Environment
PUBLIC AGENDA INFOGRAPHIC: HEALTH CARE
Media Type: PDF / YEAR: 2012
The American health care system is the most expensive in the world, and still millions are without coverage.
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Issue Area(s): Health Care
PUBLIC AGENDA INFOGRAPHIC: HEALTH CARE (IMAGE)
Media Type: IMAGE / YEAR: 2012
The American health care system is the most expensive in the world, and still millions are without coverage.
Issue Area(s): Health Care
THE COMPLETION CRISIS
What Students Have to Say
Media Type: IMAGE / YEAR: 2012
We've all heard and read the stats: Only 4 in 10 young Americans earn a higher education credential by the time they are 35. Add to that our unsustainable student debt situation, and higher education in this country just looks bleaker and bleaker.
Issue Area(s): Higher Education
VIDEO: DAVID BROOKS AT THE MAXWELL SCHOOL/PUBLIC AGENDA POLICY BREAKFAST
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2011
Watch author and New York Times columnist David Brooks being interviewed by Robert Siegel of NPR as part of the Maxwell School/Public Agenda Policy Breakfast series on April 18, 2011.
Issue Area(s): Other
VIDEO: ENSURING SCHOOL SAFETY
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2010
School safety is vital for creating a supportive educational environment.
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families
VIDEO: EXPECTATIONS AND STANDARDS
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2010
This Choicework Discussion Starter is designed to help communities talk about how to make sure these standards work for all students.
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Children & Families
VIDEO: HELPING ALL STUDENTS SUCCEED IN A DIVERSE SOCIETY
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2010
Everyone wants to see students succeed, but too often too many are doing more poorly than they should.
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education, Race
VIDEO: TEACHING METHODS
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2010
Are the "tried and true" teaching methods with the best way to help today's kids learn, or are there new, innovative approaches that work better?
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
VIDEO: THE PURPOSES OF EDUCATION
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2010
The Choicework Discussion Starter is designed to help you and your neighbors discuss what purposes of education are most important to you and what educational priorities you'd like to see in your own community.
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education
VIDEO: THE QUESTION OF SCHOOL CHOICE
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2010
Some people want educational alternatives to the traditional public school system through voucher or charter school programs.
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education
WORKING TOGETHER FOR STUDENT SUCCESS
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2010
This Choicework Discussion Starter can help community college administrators, faculty and students discuss approaches community colleges can take to help students achieve their goals and be more successful in college.
Issue Area(s): Higher Education
VIDEO: A PLACE TO CALL HOME: WHAT IMMIGRANTS SAY NOW ABOUT LIFE IN AMERICA
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2009
Our new survey, A Place to Call Home: What Immigrants Say Now About Life In America, finds majorities saying they adapted quickly to life in the U.S., and, made the right choice in coming to this country.
Issue Area(s): Immigration, Children & Families, Race
VIDEO: ENGAGING CITIZENS AND COMMUNITIES
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2009
Issue Area(s): Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
VIDEO: PLANET FORWARD CAMPAIGN
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2009
"Planet Forward" is an innovative, viewer-driven program that debuts on the web first and culminates in a primetime PBS special just a week ahead of Earth Day.
Issue Area(s): Energy & Environment, Science & Society
VIDEO: READY FOR 21ST CENTURY CAREERS PART 1
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2009
This Choicework Discussion Starter is intended to help your community discuss how to work together to ensure students today get the education they'll need to succeed in the 21st Century.
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education, Workforce
VIDEO: READY FOR 21ST CENTURY CAREERS PART 2
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2009
This Choicework Discussion Starter is intended to help your community discuss how to work together to ensure students today get the education they'll need to succeed in the 21st Century.
Issue Area(s): K-12 Education, Higher Education, Workforce
VIDEO: WITH THEIR WHOLE LIVES AHEAD OF THEM
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2009
Most young adults who started college but didn't finish left because they needed to work more to make ends meet.
Issue Area(s): Higher Education, Workforce
VIDEO: SUCCESS IS WHAT COUNTS
Media Type: WEB VIDEO / YEAR: 2008
This Choicework Discussion Starter can help community college administrators, faculty and students discuss approaches community colleges can take to help students achieve their goals and be more successful in college.
Issue Area(s): Higher Education
DANIEL YANKELOVICH, CHAIRMAN & CO-FOUNDER, PUBLIC AGENDA
Part of the Maxwell School/Public Agenda Policy Breakfast Series
Media Type: AUDIO PODCAST
Co-Founder of Public Agenda, Daniel Yankelovich, shares his thoughts on how the public thinks and learns about difficult issues on its way to becoming ready to embrace solutions. (MAY 2010)
PUBLIC AGENDA INFOGRAPHIC: ENERGY (IMAGE)
Media Type: IMAGE
World energy demand is projected to jump 40% over the next twenty years. We need to be prepared in order to meet the need.
Issue Area(s): Energy & Environment
SLIDESHOW: A PLACE TO CALL HOME
Media Type: SLIDESHOW
Immigrants are holding fast to their belief that America remains the land of opportunity, according to a new Public Agenda study.
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Issue Area(s): Immigration, Children & Families, Race
VIDEO: CITYWIDE ON CUNY TV WITH DR. WILL FRIEDMAN PART 1
Media Type: WEB VIDEO
In this clip, Will Friedman talks about fostering the right conditions to engage the public for democratic problem solving and change.
Issue Area(s): Civic Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
VIDEO: CITYWIDE ON CUNY TV WITH DR. WILL FRIEDMAN PART 2
Media Type: WEB VIDEO
In this clip, Will Friedman discusses the importance of "issue framing" for public deliberation so citizens can participate effectively in the public dialogue.
Issue Area(s): Civic Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
VIDEO: CITYWIDE ON CUNY TV WITH DR. WILL FRIEDMAN PART 3
Media Type: WEB VIDEO
In this clip, Will Friedman talks about how the public arrives at judgment on issues.
Issue Area(s): Civic Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
VIDEO: CITYWIDE ON CUNY TV WITH DR. WILL FRIEDMAN PART 4
Media Type: WEB VIDEO
In this clip, Will Friedman shares his views on how to create a culture of public engagement.
Issue Area(s): Civic Education, Public Engagement/Deliberative Democracy
VIDEO: DONALD GREGG AT THE MAXWELL SCHOOL/PUBLIC AGENDA POLICY BREAKFAST
Media Type: WEB VIDEO
Watch former Ambassador Donald Gregg being interviewed by Robert Siegel of NPR as part of the Maxwell School/Public Agenda Policy Breakfast series on June 15, 2011.
Issue Area(s): Other