The Tao of Doing Good
Navigating between anger and acceptance in solving social issues.
Navigating between anger and acceptance in solving social issues.
A new resource aims to nurture the next generation of social entrepreneurs and support them in their efforts to create social value in innovative ways.
A new generation of teacher education programs is challenging how teachers get trained for the classroom.
A partnership between Fairfax High and the nonprofit Greenway Arts Alliance in Los Angeles has improved school finances and created a community hub.
Intentional processes that support risk-taking, testing, and fine-tuning of interventions lead to better-designed, more impactful initiatives.
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.