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This National Issues Forums (NIF) newsletter is to let you know about new information, announcements, or materials that can be found on the NIF website.
If you have National Issues Forums (NIF) news, or other related items, please send them to me (Patty Dineen) at dineenp@msn.com. Also, if you are planning forums, workshops, or other NIF-related events, please submit the information to the calendar page for posting on the NIF calendar.
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| Watch a Trailer for an Upcoming Documentary about the Achievement Gap |
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You can watch an eight and a half-minute trailer for the upcoming Kettering Foundation documentary on the Achievement Gap. The full-length documentary is being produced by Amy Lee and will be available for viewing later this spring.
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| A Deliberative Forums Project about Privacy - Free Online Workshops about Hosting Forums |
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 The American Library Association (ALA) Membership Initiative Group (MIG), Libraries Fostering Civic Engagement is promoting public deliberation on the topic, Who Do I Trust My Privacy To? using a discussion guide written by members Nancy Kranich and Carolyn Caywood.
By sparking a national conversation on privacy, Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8, 2010) will give people with different perspectives an opportunity to learn more about the issues, weigh in on choices with their fellow citizens, and consider options for action.
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| Report from Sandy Heierbacher and the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation |
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Sandy Heierbacher reports on a research project with the Kettering Foundation that was aimed at learning about how attendees at the 2008 National Conference on Dialogue & Deliberation see themselves playing a role in democratic governance.
You can download the full 38-page report and also a 3-page overview.
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| Invitation from Sandy Heierbacher to Join a Conference Call (April 7, 2010) about "Intro to Dialogue and Deliberation" |
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From Sandy Heierbacher, Director of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) - An Invitation to join a conference call: "Intro to Dialogue and Deliberation" on Wednesday, April 7 at 12:00pm.
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| Job Opening - Project Lead for Alberta Climate Change Dialogue |
| Alberta Climate Dialogue (ABCD) is a new project to engage citizens and stakeholders in climate change planning and action at the municipal and also provincial levels, using tools of deliberative democracy.
The Project Lead will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful launch and deployment of this innovative project, including project planning and strategy, fundraising, communications, operations and partnership development.
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| American Library Association Establishes a Center for Civic Life |
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The American Library Association (ALA) and the Kettering Foundation have signed a research agreement to establish a Center for Public Life. The Center will train librarians from different types of libraries to convene and moderate deliberative forums and frame issues of local and national concern, using National Issues Forums materials and processes
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| Report on Achievement Gap Forums - Helping Students Succeed: Communities Confront the Achievement Gap |
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A report from the Kettering Foundation, titled Helping Students Succeed: Communities Confront the Achievement Gap - is now available.
The report details findings from forums that were attended by over 3,000 citizens (from 2007 to 2009) and who used the issue book Too Many Children Left Behind: How Can We Close the Achievement Gap? The report is available as a free pdf download.
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| Politics and the Yellowstone Ecosystem - A Civic Engagement-in-Action Seminar Sponsored by the American Democracy Project and the Yellowstone Association Institute |
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This seminar, Politics and the Yellowstone Ecosystem, provides an in-depth study of four major political and environmental controversies at Yellowstone National Park: wolves, grizzlies, snowmobiles, and bison.
The goal of the project is to learn how to teach about the political controversies over our common resources. In this case, we examine political controversies in the world's first national park, Yellowstone.
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| Call for Nominations - William M. Plater Award for Leadership in Civic Engagement |
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American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) academic officers eligible - Deadline for submissions is May 3, 2010.
The William M. Plater Award is awarded each year to an AASCU chief academic officer in recognition of his or her leadership in advancing the civic mission of the campus. Any AASCU provost is eligible to be nominated.
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| Movies on the DDC Channel - From the Deliberative Democracy Consortium (DDC) |
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From Matt Leighninger: The 'programming' for the DDC Channel consists of the two home movies produced for the No Better Time conference and the Recentering Democracy Around Citizens meeting.
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| Read the March 2010 Presidential Libraries/National Issues Forums Newsletter |
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 You can read the March 2010 issue of the Presidential Libraries/National Issues Forums initiative. The newsletter is written and produced by Bob Daley.
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| FREE Issue Books Available - National Issues Forums Inventory Clearance |
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The National Issues Forums Institute (NIFI) plans to make future issue books available online and, therefore, has an inventory of past issue books that it will provide for only the cost of shipping and processing.
A minimum order of ten (10) issue books or other materials is required. This offer is available until April 15, 2010.
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National Issues Forums (NIF) is a nonpartisan network of civic, educational, and other organizations and individuals, whose common interest is to promote public deliberation in America. It has grown to include civic clubs, religious organizations, libraries, schools, and many other groups that meet to deliberate about critical issues. NIF does not advocate specific solutions or points of view but provides citizens the opportunity to consider a broad range of choices, weigh the pros and cons of those choices, and meet with each other in a public dialogue to identify the concerns they hold in common. |
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Helping Students Succeed:
Communities Confront the Achievement Gap
Kettering Symposium Held at the National Press Club
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On March 17th, 2010, at the National Press Club
in Washington, DC, National and local leaders and students took part in two panel discussions about the findings of a new report that focused on the achievement gap in education.
An audience heard panelists discuss findings from the Kettering Foundation report titled Helping Students Succeed: Communities Confront the Achievement Gap. The 20-page report details findings from forums that were held around the country between 2007 and 2009. Over 3,000 people attended the forums. |
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Read more and to download the report... |
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