This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • According to data from Advocates for Children of New York, the number of homeless students in NYC surpassed 100,000 for the third year in a row. • What can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • EdSurge profiles Texarkana College, which went from the brink of bankruptcy to tripling its graduation rates. How did it accomplish such a turnaround? This post (the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Equal Measure interviews Jobs for the Future’s Marty Alvarado and Joel Vargas on their work developing career pathways for young people: They emphasize that changing the system,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chalkbeat reports on a trend in child care — nonprofits and for-profits attempting to create “shared services” in the space, like Uber and Lyft did for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mbali Kgame reports that in response to South Africa’s call to increase the presence of representational materials in classrooms, a workbook featuring African children was produced to teach…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sydney Johnson reports that at the OpenEd conference in October, Phillip Grimaldi argued that the impacts of open educational resources are not well understood because they have not…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cassie Walker Burke reports that three Chicago principles are increasing academic rigor, in part by reducing or eliminating Fs. • Just getting rid of Fs is not the answer,…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Researchers have built the following consensus about the effects of pre-K on long-term outcomes. Effective pre-K programs can improve outcomes, but rigorous evaluation is necessary to ensure impact. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Marissa Norris explains how RAND’s education policy game brings together stakeholder groups to ideate solutions to theoretical problems like the need to cut a school budget. •…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Anna D. Johnson, Deborah A. Phillips, and Owen Schochet provide a roadmap for creating effective pre-K evaluations. • How can funders support, evaluate, and help to improve…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A report called Motor City Miles highlights the intersection of transportation and educational equity for Detroit students. They may have more school choice but not the access…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • EdSurge reports on a problem in the digital learning space: Many students — particularly minorities and those in rural areas — don’t have sufficient internet access…