Moynihan Institute News, Research and Commentary

This year's workshop for NY K-12 teachers equipped teachers with tools to address an increase in offensive and intolerant opinions expressed by children against minority groups, including often-targeted refugee students.

Amy Ellen Schwartz, professor of economics and public administration and international affairs, says we need to have all of the "other stuff" such as school lunch, school buses, school facilities, and after school lined up to help make kids productive, successful people.

"The two parties to the conflict should meet in a confidential setting where they can try to get at the deep roots of the conflict and mutually explore a possible solution," says Frederick Carriere, research professor of political science.

The award signals the importance of promoting and advancing the concept of open annotation to enhance the credibility of qualitative research, and thus its capacity to empower social change. 

"The current environment of spiraling violence and economic and political uncertainty makes predicting the outcome difficult," writes Yüksel Sezgin, assistant professor of political science and director of the Middle Eastern Studies program, of the referendum to transition Turkey from parliamentary to presidential.