The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools
The Public School Advantage draws on empirical data to argue against the popular perception that public schools are inferior to private schools.
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Global Issues - Articles
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Climate Change: What Is Our Goal?
It’s time to restructure the climate problem from averting a distant global catastrophe to minimizing collective suffering.
Bringing Social Impact Bonds to the Environment
Is the social impact bond model better suited to environmental issues?
Designing a Learning Organization
How organizations can use design to better implement, share, and expand on knowledge.
Leadership in an Age of Activism
Effective leaders encourage dissent and activism, combining listening skills with the ability to define and live up to a convincing moral and political vision.
Immigrating to a New Land
Every year nonprofits and government agencies partner to help resettle the more than one million new immigrants to the United States.
Libraries as Laboratories
In Accra, Ghana, social entrepreneurs are working to reinvent the public library for the 21st century.
Blurred Images, Better Futures
Software from a group called Ultrasafe Ultrasound promises to make it harder to practice sex-selective abortion.
The Call of Violence
In parts of the world, expanding cell-phone coverage brings with it an increase in violent activity.
Helping Cities Remain Strong
A $100 million foundation initiative aims to foster urban resilience in the face of disaster.