Redesigning American High Schools for the 21st Century
It’s time to boldly reimagine the high-school experience using the power of human-centered design, the latest adolescent neuroscience, and purpose learning.
Social Issues - Articles
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Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering
Drawing on extensive field research and surveys, Lasker suggests several ways to make international health volunteering more effective.
Rewriting the Future: A Latino Prosperity Movement
Latino philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and technology innovators are establishing important building blocks for the creation and strategic deployment of Latino wealth.
Entrepreneurship Upside Down: What If You Start With What You Have?
Takeaways from a municipal prize competition.
Podcast
What Have We Learned About Fighting Poverty?
Three experts talk about their organizations' experiences tackling poverty, in a panel moderated by SSIR managing editor Eric Nee.
The Algorithms of Fear
Many media companies are using algorithms this US election year that are having the effect of accentuating people’s differences and stoking their fears. Is it time for social innovators to build new tools that help promote a more tempered, consensus-based discourse?
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Delivering on Digital: The Innovators and Technologies That Are Transforming Government
This excerpt from the newly released book Delivering on Digital looks at how the government in New South Wales, Australia, has used digital technologies and human-centered design to build a welfare system centered around individual children.
Summer Reading: Eight Recent Books on Social, Economic, and Political Empowerment
These books offer perspectives on how we can enable a broader range of people to participate in our systems and institutions.
Kenyan Economy on the Run—and the Need to Take a Breath
A growing economy appears to contribute little to most Kenyans’ quality of life. Why the government and outside investors need to rethink Kenya's education system and development model.
Five Lessons on Innovation and the Institution
Technology and innovation aren’t just the province of new organizations—a look at how one nonprofit has navigated nearly a century-and-a-half of change.