Investing in “Teacher Town, USA”
A group of local donors has set out to transform the teaching profession in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Disrupting the Textbook Status Quo
Philanthropy can help educators find, create, and demand better options for students.
From Motivated Professional to Global Changemaker
Making the leap—15 insights on leadership and transition from the frontlines of professional education.
Intrapreneurship for Higher Education Reform
Three lessons for intrapreneurship’s emerging community of practice.
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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.