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Presumptions, Prerogatives, and Power: Why Foreign Policy is Too Easy for Presidents, and Domestic Policy is Too Hard

09.28.14

BY JACOB SHELLY When President Obama stood outside the Blue Room on September 10th to announce a major expansion of airstrikes in the Middle East, he explained that he had no other choice. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), he warned, poses a threat to the entire region — including American citizens, personnel, […]

Politics

Crime Squared: Managing Complexity in Criminal Justice Policy

09.16.14

BY JOHN BERTETTO On 23 July 2014, Isaac Lara wrote a piece that appeared in the Kennedy School Review titled Crime Square: How Advances in Criminal Justice Policy Can Improve Public Safety in New York City. Mr. Lara suggests that reductions in crime may come via Place Theory, and suggests a three-pronged approach: (1) increasing […]

Fairness and Justice

Poverty is not a Culture: The weight of scarcity on American social mobility

09.8.14

BY BRIAN CHIGLINSKY, PANGYRUS This article is being published in collaboration with Pangyrus.   Sendhil Mullainathan had studied poverty for years, and something haunted him in nearly every study. Born into a small rural village in India, the Harvard behavioral economist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship—commonly known as a “genius grant”—was inherently skeptical of […]

Staff Spotlight: Sergio Hernandez, Enrollment Services Customer Service Specialist

09.8.14

Sergio – tell us in your own words about what you do here at HKS?  My official title here at HKS is “Enrollment Services Customer Service Specialist”. Enrollment Services encompasses the Admissions Office, the Registrar’s Office and the Student Financial Services Office, as such I am familiar with many aspects of all of those departments. What […]

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Ashley Fischer, MPP / MBA (MIT Sloan), Organization: BUSS – Bringing Under-Resourced Schools Supplies

09.8.14

BUSS operates to ensure supplies do not go wasted, and schools in need have the resources required to best serve their students. What we do: We do this by soliciting supplies from affluent schools and businesses and recycling those supplies by transporting them to schools with fewer resources. It’s pretty simple. We find schools and businesses in […]

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Sar Medoff, MPP / MD (Mt. Sinai), Organization: Reach Out and Read

09.8.14

I am the Chair of Reach Out and Read’s Young Literacy Council (YLC) (effectively a junior board). The YLC is a group of young professionals who are passionate about the importance of early literacy and the mission of Reach Out and Read. Our goal is to increase awareness about Reach Out and Read, connect people […]

New Course Focuses on Economic Justice Income Inequality in Theory and Practice

09.8.14

This Fall, the Kennedy School curriculum will feature a new course called Economic Justice, centering on wealth and income inequality.  This new course will feature the work of Harvard’s Lawrence Lessig, Amartya Sen, and Michael Sandel along with classical works from Smith, Keynes, and Rawls. The Citizen caught up with Dr. Chris Robichaud, Lecturer in […]

Leadership Challenges in a Management World

09.8.14

By Thomas S. Momiyama, SEF ‘1981 I read one of the most refreshing, astute, and relevant reflections on the modern view of leadership by Christopher H. Johnson, a retired U.S. Navy captain recently in the  Naval War College Review. Johnson observed that the United States “does not understand the meaning of the word” leadership and […]

Foundation Raising Awareness about International Child Abductions Plans Inaugural Event in Cambridge

09.8.14

International child abductions are often traumatic and legally-complex events. According to the State Department, the nation experienced 702 cases of children removed from the United States and retained in a foreign country. While these abductions are not often discussed in the mainstream media, a new Boston-based non-profit is looking to raise awareness of international parental […]

Majority of White House Fellows Class of ’15 Have Kennedy School Connection

09.8.14

The White House Fellowship is among the most prestigious positions of public service in the country. The Fellowship is based on an outstanding record of achievement, leadership potential, and commitment to service. These Fellows meaningfully contribute to executive levels of government service in the federal government during their year-long term. The Fellows are placed in […]

College Counselors Make a Difference

09.8.14

HKS Professor Finds Significant Effect on Post-Secondary School Education Joshua Goodman, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, has released a Faculty Working Paper on the impact of college counseling on the college enrollment decisions of low income students. He and coauthor Ben Castleman, of UVA, study a program called Bottom Line, which provides intensive college counseling […]

Innovating Schools

09.5.14

  One student prepares to run for elected office. Another has just finished an internship in a federal courthouse. A third is taking a college course on Kierkegaard. These students are eighth graders. Education can be transformative. And it can be transformed. RETHINKING EDUCATION REFORM Education reform has been an ongoing effort for the past […]

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