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Leaders Add Voices to Call For Civic Learning
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:44 PM EDT
Recent studies show that civic education, already excessively cut back in school systems, is being even further crowded out by federal requirements focused on reading and math.
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Project Works to Make Every Vote Count... Really
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:43 PM EDT
For evidence that the U.S. voting system is far from perfect, consider these small, all-too-common examples: In 2002, flyers were distributed to Louisiana African-American communities claiming the polls would open three days after the actual elections were to be held.
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Social Entrepreneurs Create Action Tank for Change
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:42 PM EDT
"A program, think tank and civic campaign, rolled into one" is how Michael Brown describes an action tank.
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A Message from Millions of Immigrants: Tomorrow We Vote
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:41 PM EDT
Grassroot groups put a spotlight on the path to citizenship. by Phyllis Shapiro for News@Knight Somos America, We Are America," read the banners and posters in red, white and blue. "Today We March, Tomorrow We Vote."
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Impunity Project Helps Double Jail Sentences
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:39 PM EDT
The number of jail sentences in the Americas has more than doubled because of the Inter American Press Association's fight against the murder of journalists in the region.
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Grant Pushes Serbian Journalists to Dig Harder
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:38 PM EDT
An experimental project has the potential to improve journalism throughout Serbia by encouraging its journalists to report on government wrongdoing.
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Americas Center Increases Impact
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:37 PM EDT
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas has trained nearly 3,500 journalists, seven times the number anticipated when the center was created four years ago.
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National Security Archive Reveals Secret Program
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:36 PM EDT
The National Security Archive, a Knight grantee, has uncovered a secret program by the CIA and other federal agencies to take back historical documents released long ago to the public.
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Sunshine Week Proves Open Government Is for Everybody
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:35 PM EDT
By Debra Gersh Hernandez for Knight Foundation The campaign against government secrecy expanded to reach the media, classrooms, the public and politicians.
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Build It and They Will Come
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:16 PM EDT
GARY, IND. -- By year's end, construction of 123 units of affordable housing in downtown Gary will be complete and the units will be occupied by those who need it most.
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Kids Help Build a Place For Families to Go
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:14 PM EDT
STATE COLLEGE, PA. -- The Bellefonte Family Resource Center was only a fantasy until the youth it intended to inspire made it a reality.
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A University Leverages Money into More Money
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:12 PM EDT
Knight's original $2.5 million investment in an Akron neighborhood has attracted hundreds of millions of dollars more. By Betty Lin-Fisher for News@Knight
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Knights…Camera, Action
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:12 PM EDT
MIAMI -- Thanks to Miami's distinctive geographical and cultural position, the Miami International Film Festival has become a premier venue for exhibiting international and U.S. films, especially those in Spanish and Portuguese.
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After the Storm: Rebuilding a Neighborhood, One Voice at a Time
Mon Oct 2, 2006 3:00 PM EDT
With local groups matching Knight's funding, partners from Biloxi and beyond will work together to revive the city's oldest neighborhood. By Sharon Moshavi for News@Knight
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Scared of the New Media World? Fear Not–Help Is on the Way
Mon Oct 2, 2006 2:58 PM EDT
The Knight New Media Center in California has a mission: to make the marriage of journalism and technology a happy one. by Larry Meyer for News@Knight
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