Empathy Through Service
Programs like Teach for America can help participants take on the perspectives of those they seek to help.
Programs like Teach for America can help participants take on the perspectives of those they seek to help.
SEASIN aims to develop a network of universities that will help support its goals of achieving sustainable and inclusive growth, social cohesion, and equity in Southeast Asia.
Billions of dollars are poised to flow into development impact bonds (DIBs) as a mechanism for solving social challenges around the world. Now is the time to make sure these complex structures are grounded in sensible approaches to measuring impact.
AI4ALL’s summer programs for high schoolers aim to increase diversity in the growing field of artificial intelligence.
NGO Aktion Courage spurs students’ activist energy to promote antiracist programming across Germany.
Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
American educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.
Both human-centered and systems-thinking methods fit within an effective design approach, and can work in conjunction to address social challenges.
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 standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.