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CommunitiesGRANT DESCRIPTION To support the efforts of Perkins Activities Central (PAC) program at Perkins Middle School to provide students with positive activities during out-of-school time. In a 2002 survey of Akron residents sponsored by Knight Foundation, some 63 percent identified positive programs for youth as a significant community need. In 2004, the Knight Foundation provided […]
Article · March 1, 2007 by Knight Foundation
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CommunitiesREPORT DESCRIPTION This report was formulated to present Biloxi Mayor A.J. Holloway and contributing sponsors with an action plan for rebuilding East Biloxi based on community input and the technical expertise of leading national consultants assembled by Living Cities. Another focus was to describe a future East Biloxi built on expanding casino-based tourism, providing broad […]
Article · August 3, 2006 by Knight Foundation
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Learning and Impact1. A majority of American high school students say they’re plugged into mainstream news on the Internet at least weekly. Eleven percent say they consume news daily on the Internet. 2. Students who go online get most of their news and information from the news pages of Internet portals such as Google and Yahoo!, national […]
Article · June 1, 2006 by Knight Foundation
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Learning and ImpactConducted by David Yalof and Kenneth Dautrich, New England Survey Research Associates
Article · June 1, 2006 by Knight Foundation
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JournalismJournalism’s Crisis of Confidence is based on a recent day-long dialogue involving the five founding deans of the initiative, along with several new journalism schools that have been invited to join in the curriculum enrichment aspect of the project. This is the second report in the Carnegie-Knight series.
Article · May 1, 2006 by Knight Foundation
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Learning and ImpactConducted by David Yalof and Kenneth Dautrich, New England Survey Research Associates
Article · April 2, 2006 by Knight Foundation
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Learning and ImpactThe Future of the First Amendment, 2004 Edition The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s High School Initiative seeks to encourage students to use the news media, including student journalism, and to better understand and appreciate the First Amendment. As part of the initiative, the foundation funded this “Future of the First Amendment’’ research […]
Article · April 2, 2006 by Knight Foundation
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JournalismGood journalists should be able to tackle any assignment, whether it is covering their own community or covering a community with which they have had little or no personal contact. In short, they should be able to give us news that is as American as America. That’s the ideal. The truth is, we all have […]
Article · January 26, 2006 by Knight Foundation