This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Children are capable of working together to protect a common resource to ensure long-term sustainability. The most successful method employed by the children mirrors successful sustainability…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness studied the risk behaviors and health of homeless teens in New York City compared to their housed peers, concluding…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This report examines the quality of schools within cities, specifically looking at the gaps in variation of school performance between school districts in the same city.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Charmain Mercer, an education program officer sheds light on how equity can be brought into education on a deeper level and how philanthropy can help to make…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Marcus A. Winters offers insights into how much school quality varies within cities, quantifying a known phenomenon. • How much does school quality vary in your area?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • PSI is committed to a youth-powered movement toward healthcare that honors and elevates young peoples’ insights on health solutions. • PSI explains that there are challenges in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The superintendent of Marion County School District discusses how they are finding creative ways to bring instructional coaching methods into their teacher development programs. • This school…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tom Vander Ark, writing for Getting Smart, explores the concept of humanitarian engineering, in which programs are teaching engineering students how to address social problems. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Gina Cherkowski, writing for Getting Smart, discusses why math and STEM education are social justice issues, explaining that educators can utilize technology to engage all types of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • This article proves the importance of promoting arts education because jobs that use creativity are less likely to be replaced by technology such as AI and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • David C. Barnett reports that Canterbury Elementary in Cleveland Heights plays classical music every morning in order to promote calmness and make students feel welcome at school. • The…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Bryan Short shares the journey that brought him to work on advancing students rights to learning data. • How can funders work to support efforts to increase…