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Zero-Problem Philanthropy
Moving away from endless problem-solving and toward creating healthy context.
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Change Resistance
An excerpt from The Synthetic University on how mission-driven, market-supported entrepreneurial organizations can transform higher education
Impact Without Imposition: What Role for Northern Academics in the Global South?
Three principles for rethinking and changing scholarly behavior.
Linking Youth Into Society
Life Project 4 Youth Alliance promotes the personal development and professional advancement of impoverished youth.
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Collective Impact
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
The Missing Link in School Reform
American educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.
Human-Centered, Systems-Minded Design
Both human-centered and systems-thinking methods fit within an effective design approach, and can work in conjunction to address social challenges.
A Better Education for All During—and After—the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research from the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and its partners shows how to help children learn amid erratic access to schools during a pandemic, and how those solutions may make progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal of ensuring a quality education for all by 2030.
How 20 Years of Education Reform Has Created Greater Inequality
How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.