Across the Digital Divide
One Laptop per Child Australia has developed a visionary program to bring digital technology to children in remote areas.
One Laptop per Child Australia has developed a visionary program to bring digital technology to children in remote areas.
Enrollment in a classroom with a high poverty rate doesn't necessarily affect individual student performance.
Part of a series of articles on helping mature organizations stay adaptive and increase their social impact.
Teachers can lead improvement in education; we need to help them develop the mindset, skills, and networks they need to create change.
It’s easy to revert to big narratives and much harder to let small, surprising, and telling stories emerge.
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.