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First Impression: Rio goes Dilmais!

November 3, 2014

I arrived in Rio de Janeiro just two days after the first round of the presidential election. Incumbent President, Dilma Rousseff, of the Workers’ Party…

The First Year Out: Avoiding the Sad Desk Lunch

October 31, 2014

I’m a recent graduate of the MPP program here at Sanford and am currently working as an education policy analyst in Raleigh. Prior to attending…

NC Legislators Hold Q&A with Sanford Students

October 21, 2014

Here at Duke, North Carolina House Representatives Rick Glazier (D–Cumberland), Grier Martin (D–Wake), and Chuck McGrady (R–Henderson) recently joined students to discuss policy in practice.…

Duke Kunshan University–A Bold Innovation

October 15, 2014

When Duke students attended their first classes on Monday, August 25, in Durham, another set of Duke students were doing the same thing more than…

This is what a Sanford summer internship looks like

September 4, 2014

Between the first and second years at Sanford students go off on their own to practice growing up. It’s called a summer internship. I’m sure…

Duke Sanford’s William Darity, Jr. Talks Race, Academics, and “Acting White” on the Radio

August 18, 2014

Sanford’s Professor William A. “Sandy” Darity, Jr. was part of a fascinating discussion on Minnesota Public Radio’s “The Daily Circuit” last week. The jumping off…

Learning from Disappointment

June 9, 2014

A recent paper by Duke graduate student Peter McElroy surveys the literature on the Annenberg Challenge, a huge philanthropic school-reform initiative of the late 1990s,…

New Public-Private Partnership for the Research Triangle

January 15, 2014

I got a call early this morning. A friend had an extra ticket for President Obama’s speech at North Carolina State University and was wondering…

Power. It’s What’s For Dinner

January 10, 2014

I recently noticed that the Panera Bread near Dupont Circle in Washington D.C. added several menu items with a strange common ingredient: power. There’s the…

Priceless? Really?

December 3, 2013

Our Thanksgiving transportation choices were clear. Option One: Drive 12 hours from Durham, North Carolina to Jackson, Mississippi, pay about $200 in gas round-trip, bring…