This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The National Memorial for Peace and Justice displays the history of white terrorism in America and honors the victims of lynchings. • What schools are already teaching…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Olney Friends School near Barnesville, Ohio has always integrated farming into their curriculum in order to grow well-rounded students. • How can other schools learn from this…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Trump Administration is pivoting away from Obama-Era regulations that were borrower-friendly to servicer-friendly policies. This shift includes preventing states from imposing their own rule on loan…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Corpus Christi initiated a busing program in response to the Supreme Court decision that desegregation applied to Latino children, as well as black children. The program underwent several…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Department of Education is awarding school districts grant money for accepting students that were displaced by natural disasters, with additional financial support for those who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Preparing for the automation age starts with following the current trends in education such as blended learning, personalized learning, student agency and more. • Will all schools start…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lawmakers in New York are thinking of rolling back the current teacher evaluation system which leaves advocates of the system dismayed, while unions, teachers, and parents…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tennessee has a new strategy to ramp up its focus on STEM education, and has already recognized 15 schools that have successfully completed the review process…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Start-ups have now come up with ‘Edtech Innovator’ which is an incubator that is located inside schools and allows teachers to develop their own edtech tools for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Seattle’s Childrens reports on an approach to diagnosing autism that is team-based and collaborative (rather than psychology- and physician-led). This has helped open up treatment options at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Wellcome discusses the process in which they decide who to fund and why, emphasizing that everything must be grounded in sound science, but also that projects…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Christensen Institute interviews the CEO of iCouldBe, a nonprofit organization that connects mentors to classrooms in which the majority of the students are from lower socio-economic…