This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Linda Flanagan shares how sports injuries are hurting student-athletes in the short and long term. Advocacy efforts on this issue face pushback and struggle to make progress. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Two leaders, Michelle Jones and Ben Nelson are reinventing higher education by redesigning their own colleges that incorporate unique curriculums, learning styles, and non-traditional college environments. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The 2017 book Girl: Love, Sex, Romance and Being You along with a separate video campaign called AMAZE helps cover gaps in sex education classes covering content that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Governing Magazine reports some troubling statistics about the health and education levels of kids living in New Mexico. • How can policy change the livelihood of kids living…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Service Year Alliance is an organization that offers paid job opportunities for young people for a full year to understand the future workforce. • How will giving job…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Two Harvard Business School graduates discuss their summer semesters at Consulting for Impact, a program that incorporates business concepts into design thinking processes for start-up ideas. • This class…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lauren Hess recounts her time at the 2018 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in which an important takeaway was for organizations to involve youth in their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The Hechinger Report discusses the Trump administration’s proposal to merge the Education and Labor Departments and the negative effects it would have on youth development, equity, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Innovative schools are redesigning their grade books and how they measure students knowledge through setting creative skills, analytical skills, complex communication, and quantitative literacy as standard expectations rather…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • St. Louis school districts are slowly improving their statistics through collective impact initiatives. People are connected to services they need through the school district’s network. • What are other…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Basta is a New York-based non-profit helping first-generation graduates get through specific hurdles to find their career paths after college. • What are some barriers that first-generation graduates…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In a recent study, research from surveys shows a significant learning gap between students’ grades in civic education, (social studies classes) and other courses in the curriculum…