Fixing Ed-Tech’s Investment Model
The sector currently suffers from a version of the classic “lemons problem.”
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Exhibiting the Vagina
The Vagina Museum educates the public about gynecological and reproductive health to dispel sexist myths and challenge normative body politics.
The Power of Relationships to Transform Systems
Californians for Justice has elevated the power of young people by establishing authentic relationships between them and teachers, educators, and officials. In so doing, it has remade education in the state and crafted a model for broader social change.
Share Your Secret Sauce
For many nonprofits, achieving true scale might require something scary—relinquishing control of your best ideas.
Zero-Problem Philanthropy
Moving away from endless problem-solving and toward creating healthy context.
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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.