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Our Ideas
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Through our three Impact Centers — Domestic Excellence, Global Leadership, and our Engagement Agenda — we focus on developing leaders, advancing policy, and taking action to solve today’s most pressing challenges.
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Women’s Initiative
The Key to Africa's Future is Female
Now more than ever, the United States and the international community must do a better job of directly engaging and supporting adolescent girls and young women
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Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative
Cities and Opportunity in 21st Century America
How America can create more cities of opportunity
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Education Reform
Beyond the Scantron
Tests and equity in today's schools
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Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative
Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants
President George W. Bush to publish a powerful new collection of stories and oil paintings highlighting the inspiring journeys of America’s immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation
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Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative
Immigration reform belongs in Congress not executive orders by the president
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Domestic Excellence
Advancing policies that promote economic growth and strengthen our competitiveness in the global economy
Ensuring all U.S. students are prepared for college and a career
Ensuring post-9/11 veterans and their families make successful transitions to civilian life
Developing a new generation of leaders who are focused on solving society's most challenging issues
Global Leadership
Extending freedom and democracy around the world
Saving women's lives from cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa
Promoting education, healthcare, and economic opportunity for women around the world