This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Brookings’ Million Learning Real-time Scaling Labs project examines how education initiatives around the world are progressing and applies “improvement science,” a form of adaptive learning, to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Parents at the Coachella Valley Unified School District worked to convince the district to allocate funding for restorative justice, but most of the money went unused. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A new study from the London School of Economics shows that the more diverse schools are, the more likely it is that students will have friends…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Bryan Caplan argues that education is primarily signaling, and does not provide social returns on the scale that justifies the cost. Robert Wiblin provides the counter-argument…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • New York City is dedicating millions of dollars over the next four years to anti-bias training for teachers that will focus on adopting the historical perspective which…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • GreatSchools has worked to discover data that could paint a clearer picture for us on the amount of college preparation that students are receiving from their high schools. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • On the Americans for the Arts’ blog, Boston-based project manager Victoria George discusses how diversity in the sector must think beyond audiences into true institutional change,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The American middle class has been struggling. Here, the Brookings Institution discusses how to help those in the demographic and also ways to bring more people…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · At Northglenn High School in suburban Denver, Chalkbeat interviews principal Sharee Blunt about her dedication to the students and staff of her institution, making the administration seem less distant. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Max Marchitello makes the case for improving equity in the United States by doubling Title I funding for low-income schools, which he argues will begin to bring…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Some Philidelphia schools have turned to project-based learning to overcome the city’s education challenges but without clear, transferable evaluation methods it is difficult to prove what impact…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • These online resources can help students develop computational thinking skills as they interact with a variety of datasets and tools. • How can philanthropy help support teachers…