Adventures in Adaptation
One funder’s willingness to shift course strategically has been crucial to sustaining a decade-long education initiative.
Social Issues - Articles
School for Scaling
A highly focused effort in Kenya to treat worm infections in children delivers lessons on how to expand a proven program.
If It Does Good, Feel It
Benefiting emotionally from altruistic behavior doesn’t lessen—indeed, it increases—other people’s regard for that behavior.
A “Value Added” Evaluation
Teachers who help boost students’ test scores also have a notable impact on students’ long-term outcomes.
Ends and Means
In the way that people think about end-of-life care, moral and economic motives converge and commingle.
Review
Past Isn’t Always Prologue
For policy makers today, earlier efforts to promote local community organizing yield relatively few lessons.
Review
A More Perfect Union?
New ideas on how to empower US workers involve breaking free of current labor law.
Becoming a Woman
A growing number of Maasai in Kenya are ending female circumcision and replacing it with other coming-of-age rituals.
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.
Turning Sideways to Close the Gap
How a change in perspective is helping one organization bridge the distance between mission and mission accomplished.