No Disabled Child Left Behind
Sightsavers is working to change social attitudes toward disabled children through community-centered education in Malawi.
Sightsavers is working to change social attitudes toward disabled children through community-centered education in Malawi.
For the past two decades, the Jed Foundation has led the fight to address the mental health crisis among American youth. Its story highlights the importance of addressing the cultural causes of the mental health crisis through systems change. | Open access to this article is made possible by the Jed Foundation
Comprehensive reform of a single mandatory subject in Rwandan secondary schools is setting students up for real-world opportunities by aligning classroom learning with life after graduation.
In a fragmented impact ecosystem, ed-tech needs collaboration to prioritize education over technology.
Investments in digital innovation have the potential to greatly expand access to education, but creating new, high-quality, low-cost, and scalable learning platforms requires broad collaboration.
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.