This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In every country across the world, millions of children and young people (CYP) are being exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) involving one or more of their caregivers or parents.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Across our work at the Milken Institute Center for Strategic Philanthropy (CSP), we often see first-hand how difficult it can be for different scientific disciplines to collaborate. While science has made so much progress in many areas, societal advancement could go…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 percent in the fall, or by more than 461,000 students compared to the fall of 2019, the decline among men was more than…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the child care market and forced many child care programs to close their doors—leaving parents with even fewer options. But in addition to creating new challenges, the pandemic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For ages, the American dream has been built on obtaining a quality education, earning a credential from a degree-awarding entity and then starting a life full of wealth and opportunity.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As many teachers can attest, engaging students and ensuring that the material shared actually resonates can be a challenge even at the best of times. Now in 2020, teachers are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At a virtual fundraiser last July, then-presidential candidate Joe Biden said, “I want young climate activists, young people everywhere, to know: I see you. I hear you. I understand the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “When the crisis struck in March, we immediately thought: ‘Will we need to tap the brakes?’” Brielle Brewick, an Associate Director of Networks at Leading Educators, reflects. “We thought there…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The damage wrought to American education by the COVID-19 pandemic beggars description, and so we are reduced to metaphor: Schools have been hit by an earthquake, a hurricane, a war. There…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than five decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., many carry on his legacy through the struggle for racially integrated schools. Yet as King put it in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last year presented many challenges and accelerated a number of shifts that were already underway in K-12 education. Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Coronavirus closed thousands of daycares last year, forcing parents with young children out of the labor force in droves. The scale of that exodus is now clear: about 700,000 parents…