This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author examines the role of family and community care for orphans in Africa once they shut down the orphanages. This practice puts a burden on women who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Boddle Learning is an edtech startup that developed a game learning platform to increase student engagement and utilize gamification techniques to help kids learn. • What other games…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The Hechinger Report discusses a recent study conducted in an affluent school district in the Northeast of the U.S. and the results showing the widespread conflicts between school…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Getting Smart discusses the challenges special education students and teachers face in segregated classrooms. Research shows that these students are put at a disadvantage when separated from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · At San Francisco’s Aptos Middle School, teacher Taji Allen-Sanchez uses project-based learning and performance assessments with his students to foster the skills necessary to succeed after school. Edutopia…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The Hechinger Report explains that children from low-income families usually benefit when their education is mixed with students from a range of economic backgrounds. It is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The Hechinger Report discusses the debate around segregation in schools raging among academics, journalists and policy advocates. Recent research conducted in Providence, R.I. shows the troubles that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author relays reasons from the 2018 New York Times Higher Ed Leaders Forum around how the integrity of higher education institutions is challenged by it’s own…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Makerspaces are potentially becoming the place that English language learners can learn about STEM subjects effectively. The author details how maker education does not put emphasis on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • RAND recently evaluated the Gates Foundation investment called the Effective Teacher Initiative which ended up being unsuccessful. However, there are important lessons to learn from the effort. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Across the UK, phones are seen as a tool for bullying and a distraction for students in class. BBC News reports the controversy of phones in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The 74 reports on a recent meeting of the Federal Commission on School Safety and the discussion relating school violence to violent video games and the “24-hour news…