This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) launched the AI for K-12 Working Group (AI4K12) which drafted five ideas that students…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Budget cuts have been affecting all areas of education for the past few decades. More recently, however, cutting down on costs have meant cutting out liberal…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Danielle Holly outlines arguments against billionaire philanthropy focusing on public education: undue influence and ill-gotten money. • How can philanthropists work to undo the systems that have allowed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The University of California’s System’s Board of Regents approved a four-year budget plan that will allow enrollment to grow by 2,500 students without raising tuition. • According to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • There is a twenty-two story tower called the MOOC Times Building in China’s capital that is an incubator for edtech companies and startups. China is starting to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Building 21 network is made up of schools that want to adopt the outcome framework and assessments that are innovative and competency-based focused on finding personalized ways for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chalkbeat explores what late-stage literacy instruction looks like, emphasizing that it requires a lot of time, patience and resources from school districts. • While providing support…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The PAYA National Partners came together to create a set of principles to guide effective youth apprenticeship to benefit young people and employers alike. • How can funders help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chalkbeat profiles the LENA Start program in Detroit, which aims to improve the language skills of young children with help from a recording device. • Another…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this Education Dive post, Barbara Sargent, superintendent of Parsippany-Troy Hills School District in New Jersey, outlines a five-step process for choosing principals who are the right fit…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng will launch “AI for Everyone” in 2019, a program that helps nontechnical business leaders and educators increase tech literacy. • How will…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The career and technical education industry is re-evaluating how best to prepare students for the future workforce. Incorporating certification programs that are already backed by employers is a…