Critical Competences for Social Impact Leaders
Five opportunities for educators to more clearly connect classic entrepreneurial skills to the social impact field and to foster skills that can serve a range of social impact leadership roles.
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Using Technology to Teach the Art of Asking Questions
Technological innovations have the potential to transform education, but only if they encourage a more active learning environment that fosters critical thinking.
A Journal for Refugees
An Oxford project provides a place where migrants forced to flee their homes can publish their work.
Healing Through Hip-Hop
In the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond, mental health professionals are using hip-hop culture to reach troubled youth.
HELP for Haiti
It’s a ripple effect: HELP fulfills Haitian students’ dreams of college, and then they take up the baton.
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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.