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Educating as if Democracy Depends on It
Preparing young people to participate and govern means moving beyond entrusting civic learning to a single course in high school or an elective on campus.
Government - Articles
Innovative public sector policies and programs (more)
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How Can Schools Best Serve the Common Good?
A conversation with two nationally renowned school superintendents about the biggest challenges they face, the relationship between education and democracy, and the tension between innovation and equity.
Compliance as Resistance
Philanthropic, nonprofit, and civil society organizations that face highly restrictive state policies can leverage compliance to pursue their goals as legalized entities, making them harder to suppress.
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Renegotiating the Education Social Contract for the Age of AI
Choice, agency, and how to design a learning system where private gain and public good reinforce each other.
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The Randomista Revolt
An excerpt from Beyond Belief on building the evidence revolution in Washington
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Education for Thriving Careers
What the research says about education, jobs, AI, and what students will need to succeed as future workers and citizens.
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Renewing Public Education’s Purpose
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Stuart Foundation are pleased to co-sponsor this series of diverse essays on the purpose of public education. The authors write from different vantage points, but each takes seriously a core question: In a time of widespread change, what is public education for, and how can it evolve to meet its promise?
Scale Really Matters
The problems are big, the time is short, and the resources are limited.
When Compliance Aims to Silence
A look at the motivations behind and impact of a new law limiting nonprofit fundraising in Ecuador, and how civil society organizations are coming together to reclaim their agency.