The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching plans to test Piazza this fall at 27 community colleges.

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The Public Broadcasting System, she noted, grew out of a similar effort that initially was funded by the Carnegie Foundation.

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The Carnegie Institution and Rockefeller Foundation supported eugenics programmes in Germany into the 1930s, for example.

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Business leaders from Intel, Xerox, Kodak, and Time Warner Cable are teaming up with Sally Ride, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as the Carnegie Corporation, to find and replicate successful science, math, and technology programs all across America.

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