How International Corporations Can Help Educate the World
The private sector offers more than just deep pockets to the quest for global education; companies have talent, resources, and new ideas to share.
The private sector offers more than just deep pockets to the quest for global education; companies have talent, resources, and new ideas to share.
How can we transform the university research enterprise to enhance its social impact?
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My experience in Erdoğan’s Turkey has taught me that NGOs need to avoid polarizing politics, focus on core values, and find allies to survive and thrive in closing societies.
The Global Partnership for Education is giving millions of kids a chance to learn. Why isn’t the United States doing more to support it?
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.
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How standardized testing, gentrification, school choice, and economic downturn have widened inequality to create an existential threat to democracy.