Education
A “Value Added” Evaluation
Teachers who help boost students’ test scores also have a notable impact on students’ long-term outcomes.
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Impact Investing
Sharing the Stage
The example of venture philanthropy in Europe shows how old and new forms of practice can coexist.
Health
Ends and Means
In the way that people think about end-of-life care, moral and economic motives converge and commingle.
Review
Economic Development
Past Isn’t Always Prologue
For policy makers today, earlier efforts to promote local community organizing yield relatively few lessons.
Review
Economic Development
A More Perfect Union?
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.
Review
Foundations
Uncertain Legacy
Can the history of a century-old foundation amount to more than the sum of its grants?
Review
Technology & Design
Misdiagnosing Science
A survey of obstacles to innovation focuses erroneously on the supposed caution of university-based scientists.
Human Rights
Becoming a Woman
A growing number of Maasai in Kenya are ending female circumcision and replacing it with other coming-of-age rituals.
Business
Supercharging Corporate Sustainability
To accelerate progress on sustainability, businesses need a radically different approach to engaging investors and consumers.
UP FOR DEBATE
Rethinking How Students Succeed
A wave of noncognitive skill initiatives holds promise for making teachers more effective and students more successful. Includes a new response from Raikes Foundation Co-founders Jeff and Tricia Raikes.