New America Foundation

Congress completed the fiscal year 2012 appropriations process on December 17th, 2011, finalizing annual funding for federal education programs through September 30, 2012 at $68.1 billion, down $233 million from the prior year. It is the first year since 2007 that Congress did not increase total appropriations for education programs.

The full testimony is below or available for download as a PDF on the right. The testimony and a video of hearing is also available on the hearing website hosted by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Human Rights.

With this proposal, the Open Technology Initiative at New America Foundation (“OTI”) presents an innovative framework for building out gigabit broadband infrastructure and providing low-cost high-speed connectivity in communities surrounding Gig.U member universities. The key to our proposal is a modular, scalable, hybrid approach to infrastructure development which adapts to the needs of each community, combining fiber-optic build-out with wireless mesh deployments.

China’s surplus fell from 10.1% of GDP in 2007 to 5.2% in 2010.  Whether its current account will continue to decline or will return to higher levels seen in the mid-2000s is a subject of considerable disagreement.

On November 3, 2011, Lisa Guernsey gave a talk about e-books at Libraries 2.011, a virtual international conference that attracted thousands of educators, librarians and instructional technology specialists from around the world.

On November 15, 2011, Lisa Guernsey gave a webinar presentation as part of an Early Childhood Research series. Her presentation was a preview of new research gathered for the second edition of her book, renamed Screen Time: How Electronic Media -- From Baby Videos to Educational Software -- Affects Your Young Child, which will be released in paperback in March 2012.

On November 14, 2011, the Asset Building Program of the New America Foundation submitted a response to the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Education and Financial Access (OFEFA) request for feedback on its financial access activities.

Chairman Levin, Ranking Member McCain, Members of the Committee:

It is my pleasure to testify today on the future of Iraq following the withdrawal of U.S. troops by December 31 of this year. This is an important foreign policy issue for the United States, and I am pleased to see it receive at least some of the attention it deserves.

CASA of Oregon, Neighborhood Partnerships, and NeighborWorks Umpqua hosted Rebuilding the Path of Opportunity: An Oregon Asset Builders' Conference on November 9-10. Rachel Black presented "Recovery and Resiliency" at a plenary exploring the landscape of policy options to expand savings opportunities among lower-income households from the local to the national level. In the presentation, she gives a federal policy perspective and argues that helping households build financial resiliency through savings should be a core part of the economic recovery agenda.