The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues.

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Finding a New Way: Leveraging Teacher Leadership to Meet Unprecedented Demands

Publication | March 4, 2013 | Rachel Curtis
Education and Society Program
School systems that provide their highest-performing teachers with leadership roles can elevate the profession and increase the impact of top talent. Pursuing teacher leadership allows schools... Read More

Power Curve Society report cited by Disruptive Competition Project

Communications and Society Program
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Our Blog

The Aspen Idea—the magazine and blog of the Aspen Institute — covers the people, programs, and pursuits that embody the work of the Institute. From articles that address pressing issues facing our... Read More

Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program

The Aspen Institute Advocacy Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) helps our clients plan, assess, and refine their policy advocacy efforts.  In particular, we help foundations, individual funders... Read More

Who We Are

Middle East Programs
Maysam AliAssociate DirectorFollow @Maysoumie  Tara ShallalProgram CoordinatorFollow @TShallal  Sarah HarlanAssociate DirectorFollow @SarahAHarlan  Katherine St. OngeNitze... Read More

The Arab Revolutions and American Policy

Publication | March 28, 2013 | Nicholas Burns and Jonathon Price
Aspen Strategy Group
This book is a collection of papers commissioned for the 2012 Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop, a bipartisan meeting of top national security experts. The papers evaluate the various drivers and... Read More
Integrating Diplomacy and Social Media

Integrating Diplomacy and Social Media: A Report of the First Annual Aspen Institute Dialogue on Diplomacy and Technology

Publication | March 29, 2013
Communications and Society Program
Advances in social media and the wave of citizen involvement in both internal and external state affairs has heightened the need to take a closer look at how communications technologies can advance... Read More

The Manufacturing Resurgence: What It Could Mean for the U.S. Economy

Publication | March 26, 2013 | Thomas J. Duesterberg
Manufacturing and Society in the 21st Century
The Aspen Institute's Manufacturing & Society program in partnership with MAPI commissioned the University of Maryland's Interindustry Forecasting Project (Inforum) to determine how the U.S.... Read More

Defining Excellence: Lessons from the 2013 Aspen Prize Finalists

Publication | March 20, 2013
College Excellence Program
For millions of Americans, community colleges provide an essential pathway to well-paying jobs and continuing higher education. The Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence honors those... Read More

The 2013 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence

Publication | March 20, 2013
College Excellence Program
For millions of Americans, community colleges provide an essential pathway to well-paying jobs and continuing higher education. The Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence honors those... Read More

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