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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Innovations that address global challenges such as education, environment, and health (more)
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.
Review
Misdiagnosing Science
A survey of obstacles to innovation focuses erroneously on the supposed caution of university-based scientists.
Becoming a Woman
A growing number of Maasai in Kenya are ending female circumcision and replacing it with other coming-of-age rituals.
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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.
Five Ways to Build Diverse, Inclusive Leadership Teams
A new report underscores the need for education nonprofits to move from collective good intention to action in building diverse leadership.
Global Issues
The Chief Engine of Change: Conversation
A look at how Freedom to Marry used communications to make the “impossible” ... “inevitable”
Cracking the Black Box of Human Reasoning
We have powerful new tools to solve complex social problems—but how we apply them will determine our success.