For more on that report, I sat down with Gary Orfield, professor of education and director of Harvard's Civil Rights Project, and John Brittain, chief counsel and senior deputy for the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
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But a new study released by Harvard University's Civil Rights Project suggests, when it comes to public education, we still have a ways to go.
Mr. GARY ORFIELD (Professor of Education and Director of Civil Rights Project, Harvard University): You also see that this line has been drawn between city and suburb, as if we were two different civilizations.
The Guinea Bissau project for Civil Birth Record stands out among them.
This 1918 poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, was brought to my attention by friend Elizabeth Lynn, Director of the Project on Civil Reflection in Valparaiso, Indiana.
"It's misleading people, " said Lucas Guttentag, director of the immigrants' rights project for the American Civil Liberties Union.
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"All these things got Americans angry and got them to realize just how extreme the other side is, " said Jennifer Dalven, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project.
Its rural economy project, for example, excluded civil servants from the agriculture and environment departments.
"It's the beginning of the surveillance society where you can be tracked anywhere, any time and all your movements, and eventually all your activities will be tracked and noted and correlated, " said Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Technology and Liberty Project.
Proposal 2 "allows alumni to simply drop in on admissions committee members to lobby for a legacy policy, " while affirmative-action proponents must "hit the streets with petitions to amend the Michigan Constitution before they can have the same chance, " said Mark Fancher, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan's Racial Justice Project.
Dan Work is a civil engineering Berkeley PhD student who is working on this project.
The year-long project will also look at the history of civil defence preparations in Norwich, and the involvement of volunteers in the Civil Defence Corps.
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It was unclear when the situation would end, because the volcano was still erupting and spewing ash Saturday, said Agust Gunnar Gylfason, a project manager at Iceland's Department of Civil Protection and Emergency Management.
Indeed, one of the innovative aspects of the projects is the bringing together of youth and educational institutions on the one hand and civil society actors on the other, around a concrete project in order to develop local communities and effective civic engagement.
John Corey of the public service union Nipsa said the termination of the project was "in the best interests of the civil service and the Northern Ireland taxpayer".
PIU's project teams are deliberately composed of outside experts rather than civil servants.
Save Lamu , a coalition of local civil society organizations, is taking the government to court over the port project.
The dangers were even clearer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964, another of the sentinel campaigns of the civil-rights movement.
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There are also reports that civil servants have been forced to contribute one month's salary towards the project.
It will finalize the results of two case studies launched in 2011 within the framework of a joint project of UNESCO, UN Women and CODESRIA, conducted in collaboration with civil society organizations, according to the method of SWOT analysis that identifies strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of a category of people in a given area: in this case, the social movement of women and gender-based violence.
And she went on to say that project management and contracting skills "gained by officials must now be deployed elsewhere in the civil service where these skills have often been found wanting in the past".
To secure the sustainability of the project, eIFL.net is required to create strategic partnerships with national, regional and international civil society organizations.
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But if she's right, and if Oprah can examine the successes of something like the Algebra Project or Detroit Summer--both built on the model of the freedom schools of the civil rights movement--then perhaps we can move beyond the realm of midday talk shows into something much more substantive: a sustainable movement that will remake our schools for the better.
Oswaldo Paya was best known as the founder of the Varela project, a campaign begun in 1998 to gather signatures in support of a referendum on laws guaranteeing civil rights.
Oswaldo Paya, who was 60, was best known as the founder of the Varela project, a campaign begun in 1998 to gather signatures in support of a referendum on laws guaranteeing civil rights.
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