Taking a Charter Flight
In one prominent effort to reinvent public schools, promise and performance don't necessarily match up.
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The Leadership Model of Philanthropy
Focus, flexibility, and fortitude—the three pillars of philanthropic organizations looking to create systemic change.
New Models for Higher Education
Education systems that incorporate human interaction and multidimensional learning are poised to change what and how we learn.
The Case for Social Innovation Micro-Credentials
Digital badges as a credentialing tool may force us to re-think and redesign education, especially for emerging fields such as social innovation.
Engaging Employees for Emerging Market Success
Intel’s new approach to getting technology into rural classrooms worldwide.
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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.