This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Michigan launched a free college program for frontline workers last year during the pandemic, state officials expected to receive around 15,000 applicants. Instead, the program, called Futures for Frontliners, drew 120,000.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As a junior who is studying bioengineering, Amida Koroma has been a fixture on the dean’s list at the University of Maryland. Yet Koroma, who is Black, said she feels…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Like many New York City charter schools, Brooklyn’s Ascend network started off the year fully remote. But just a few months in, it became clear: Remote learning wasn’t working for…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Michael J. Weiss, Rebecca Unterman, and Dorota Biedzio share learnings and gaps in understanding around the long-term impacts of higher education programs. • What role can you…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. School and district officials are wading deeply into the process of deciding how to spend billions of new federal education dollars included in the latest COVID-19 relief bill, the American Rescue Plan. Plans…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. During our work with people living around the Ranthambhor National Park on issues of conservation, livelihoods, and eco-development, a constant question we were asked was how long we thought we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Girls experience gender and sexual violence in schools around the world, and South Africa is no exception. Research has shown how learners, and girls in particular, are vulnerable to violence. Despite the country’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Poplar schools lose about a fifth of their teachers each year — more than double the national attrition rate — and principals have struggled to fill vacancies across most grade levels and subjects.…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This report from the Manhattan Institute provides recommendations for a workforce training program for individuals that do not have a college degree. • The report maintains…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In a new study, researchers found a link between an outdoor science program and higher average science grades, as well as an increase in a measure of science knowledge for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Forty thousand high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District are at risk of not graduating — including 6,000 this year — according to a new analysis that tracks the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Like many university administrators across the country, Nancy Schreiber, Provost and VPAA of Salve Regina University, faced a tough decision around an underperforming program. Her options were fairly straightforward: shutter…