This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Schools are beginning to facilitate student-led conferences between teachers, parents, and their children to build up organizational, communication, and confidence skills. • How is this practice…
Sterling Speirn is Chief Executive Officer of the National Conference on Citizenship. He is the immediate past President and CEO of the Peninsula Community Foundation, now the Silicon Valley Community…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Here’s what we’re reading: What happens when students are given a say in school budgets? When schools in New York City engaged in a participatory budgeting practice with students they…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fast Company takes a look at ways to inspire and encourage new research in science and technology to improve our world’s poverty through innovations in health,…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Vikram Jain shares how the Program to Improve Private Early Education aims to help working-class families in India get their children a better education. • How can funders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this story from Campden FB, James Beech interviews and discusses the legacy of entrepreneur, author, public speaker, and philanthropist Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Educators voice concerns and support for a bill in Colorado that aims to limit the number of early childhood suspensions and expulsions. • What are the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Steven Serling, an educator at a Harlem high school, teaches students to engage with partisan issues and sift through political ideas during this polarizing time. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · According to Education Dive, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos reemphasized the importance of Education Freedom Scholarships and school choice at the 2019 Reagan Institute Summit on Education.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · According to Education Dive, recent data shows that suspension lengths in New York City have decreased an average of 30% due to a large public outcry.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this story from The Hechinger Report, author Pamela Burdman discusses why most American students experience math anxiety and how our education system might change to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for EdSurge, Randy Weiner explains that the need to find a humanizing focus in education supersedes the need to personalize education. · How can education find a…