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New & Noteworthy New Public Agenda Report: Teachers Are Being Left Out of Their Own Story Organizing Citizen-Centered Conversations for Health Advocacy Efforts in Pennsylvania T. Anthony Patterson joins Public Agenda as Communications Lead New Resources Share Global Practices with Power to Strengthen Democracy in the U.S. Public Agenda Welcomes New Board Member Claude Millman Public Agenda Announces New Health Care Research and Communications Initiative with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Article Series Highlights Needs and Strategies for Public Engagement New Videos Highlight On-the-Ground Work of Community Voices for Health Project Our Work: 1Lifts up the views and values of the public in today’s policy debates, including those of groups who have had too little voice in our public conversations. 2Helps communities think through tough problems, build common ground on solutions, and work together to forge progress on such issues as: Education, Health Care, Economic Opportunity, Climate Change 3Helps people redesign and revitalize democracy to make it more inclusive, participatory, and effective. Programs & Publications The Public's Agenda Teachers in the News Hidden Common Ground Initiative Healthier Democracies The New York Metro Agenda Yankelovich Stronger Democracy Program Reports & Resources Archive The Public's Agenda The Public's Agenda. Public Agenda applies its expertise in nonpartisan research and public engagement to foster progress on the issues people care about most, including: K-12 Education Our Next Assignment: Where Americans Stand on Public K-12 EducationStrengthening and Sustaining Public Engagement in VermontAddressing Incidents of Bias in Schools Higher Education A Major Step: What Adults Without Degrees Say About Going (Back) to College Health Care Where Americans See Eye to Eye on Health CareWe Can Do Better: New York State Residents Weigh In on Health Care Quality Reinventing Opportunity Divisiveness and Collaboration in American Public Life: A Hidden Common Ground ReportThe Fix We're In: What Americans Have to Say About Opportunity, Inequality and the System They Feel Is Failing Them Other Topics: Criminal Justice, Immigration, Housing, Climate Change, and more. Teachers in the News Education journalism shapes public perception of teachers and helps shape policy priorities - intertwining the media, K-12 education, and the contours of teaching in many significant ways. To foster more insightful journalism, Public Agenda’s Teachers in the News project, supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, provides an unprecedented analysis of education media coverage, alongside findings from a survey of teachers and parents; and interviews with teachers and journalists.Public Agenda’s analysis examines teacher portrayals in education journalism from 2009 to 2020 in five national and five local newspapers. Findings from a nationally representative survey examine what K-12 public school teachers and parents think about how the media portrays teachers, what education topics deserve more coverage, and the challenges teachers have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic. In video interviews, teachers and journalists reflect on what these findings mean for the future of education and news.To view findings, implications, and videos in full, visit our dedicated site www.teachersinthenews.org. Hidden Common Ground Initiative Public Agenda's Hidden Common Ground® initiative challenges the narrative that Americans are hopelessly divided and incapable of working together. Through research, journalism, and public engagement, Hidden Common Ground helps Americans identify and strengthen their common ground, productively navigate their differences, and create fair and effective solutions to the challenges of our time.Hidden Common Ground explores issues including overcoming divisiveness, responses to the coronavirus, health care, economic opportunity, racism and police reform, and immigration.The Kettering Foundation is a research partner of the Hidden Common Ground initiative. Hidden Common Ground is supported by a diverse group of foundations including Carnegie Corporation of New York, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Charles Koch Institute, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Civic Health Project and through the generosity of individual donors.Learn more about Hidden Common Ground. Healthier Democracies Healthier Democracies, an innovative initiative by Public Agenda, works to strengthen American democracy by sharing best practices and innovations from around the world. The project identifies promising global case studies of community engagement—15 in total—and offers recommendations for American public officials. Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the initiative lays out a path to equitable, deliberative and collaborative relationships between governments and the communities they serve. The views expressed here don't necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. RELATED EVENTSGlobal Learning on Democratic Innovation Webinar Series Findings, Resources, and MoreThrough the breadth of its 15 global case studies, the Healthier Democracies project has led to a broad range of analyses, reports, and resources. Click the buttons below for more information:Introduction to Healthier DemocraciesThis document gives a broad overview of the scope, purpose and work of the project. View the Introduction Global Case StudiesThe Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways. Visit the Case Studies Page Lessons LearnedWhile each of the 15 case studies features its own individual report with in-depth findings and analysis, this document gives an overview of key takeaways from the project as a whole. View Lessons Learned The Participatory Governance IndexThe Participatory Governance Index (PGI) is a ground-breaking new assessment tool designed to help public officials and government workers understand the many parts that contribute to a strong, functioning participatory engagement system. It also has an accompanying User Guide. Visit the PGI Page GlossaryThis is a compendium of key terms and concepts discussed throughout Healthier Democracies documents. Visit the Glossary Page NEWS & BLOGS Social Movements Demanding Minipublics: A New Phenomenon? May 25, 2021 People-Led Recovery: Three Ways the Philippines Built Back Better After the World’s Strongest Storm March 22, 2021 Op-Ed in The Fulcrum Emphasizes Learnings from Abroad to Improve U.S. Democracy February 24, 2021 New “Healthier Democracies” initiative will bring learning about democratic innovation to the U.S. November 19, 2020 HEALTHIER DEMOCRACIES ADVISORY BOARDJeni Arndt, Mayor of Fort Collins, ColoradoRosie Berger, Former Wyoming State Representative (R)David Blount, Mississippi State Senator (D)Tanisha Briley, City Manager, Gaithersburg, MarylandTom Carroll, Village Manager, Silverton, OhioMisty Mason Freeman, Director of the Legislative Policy and Research Office, Oregon State LegislatureMaria Hadden, 49th Ward Alderwoman, City of ChicagoStacy Householder, Director, Leadership and International Programs, National Conference of State LegislatorsNigel Jacob, Co-Chair, Boston Mayor's Office of New Urban MechanicsManish Jani, IT Director and Deputy Director, Colorado Legislative CouncilValerie Lemmie, Director of Exploratory Research, Kettering FoundationDoug Linkhart, President, National Civic LeaguePete Peterson, Dean, School of Public Policy, Pepperdine UniversitySatya Rhodes-Conway, Mayor of Madison, WisconsinClaire Woodall-Vogg, Executive Director, City of Milwaukee Election CommissionHEALTHIER DEMOCRACIES RESEARCH TEAM Azucena Morán Senior Research Fellow Parisa Parsa Project Leader Erin McNally Research Associate Melisa Ross Senior Fellow - Healthier Democracies Project Mikayla Townsend Public Engagement Associate Sara Clarke-De Reza Fellow for Research and Engagement The New York Metro Agenda The New York Metro Agenda is our program specifically serving our home city and region through nonpartisan research, cutting-edge public engagement and local events. New York is our home base. It is also a hotbed of democratic innovation, and we are supporting this civic energy through actionable research, cutting-edge democratic practices, and thought-provoking events. Recent local projects have supported better health care services for low-income families; better small businesses/community relations; and collaboration between residents and scientists on environmental resilience in Jamaica Bay.Recent work:Avenue NYCCycles of Resilience - Jamaica Bay Yankelovich Stronger Democracy Program Americans are frustrated with the state of our democracy. How do they want to change it? How do they want to be engaged?The Yankelovich Stronger Democracy Program contributes research, ideas and tools that support sound public judgment and meaningful public participation. Research Strengthening Democracy: What Do Americans Think?Greater Voice, Greater Impact: Americans' Views on Making Democracy Work for EveryoneParticipatory Budgeting Research Ideas Rewiring Democracy: Subconscious Technologies, Conscious Engagement, and the Future of PoliticsSounder Public Judgment Working Paper SeriesHow Public Engagement Needs to Evolve Tools Text, Talk, EngageMaking Participation Legal: Three Minutes at the MicrophoneAddressing Incidents of Bias in Schools Reports & Resources Archive How We WorkPublic Agenda works to strengthen democracy and expand opportunity for all Americans through public engagement and public opinion research. Public Opinion Research Public Engagement "...it [can be] hard to find agreement on where things stand, how we can do better, and what solutions are worth trying...Public Agenda provided a signal service in promoting civil discussion, clarifying what we do and don't know, and respectfully acknowledging different views."- Frederick M. 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