Q&A With Ram Shriram
Silicon Valley insider Ram Shriram is focusing a great deal of time, money, and energy on helping innovative NGOs improve K–12 education in India.
Education Innovations in educational policies, programs, and practices
Latest
Meeting the Challenge of Educating Girls
Educate Girls is helping more than one million Indian schoolchildren.
The Role of Business in Collective Impact
A new report highlights how the business community’s support and expertise can greatly enhance the odds of success for collective impact efforts in education.
Three Strategies for Closing the Education-to-Employment Gap
A look at how educators, employers, and others can help millions unemployed and under-employed global youth qualify for and find available jobs.
Excerpt
Squandering America’s Future
Squandering America’s Future offers an irreverent critique of the way we rear and educate children today, with profiles of change makers—ingenious gymnasts who keep their balance on the three-legged stool of research, practice, and policy.
Most Popular
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.