This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Tricia Raikes shares the alarming stats around LGBTQ homelessness and offers insight into how donors can help homeless youth get back on their feet. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Atlantic discusses takeaways from the VARK (Visual, Auditory, Reading, and Kinesthetic) questionnaire, which indicates that people can’t be easily pigeonholed into a specific type of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • School districts across the country regularly battle with tech companies over pricing for EdTech that is vital to student success. With high, inconsistent prices districts are constantly struggling…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mary Moran and fellow organizer Henry Jones founded Our Voice Nuestra Voz to help Latino parents advocate for the needs of their kids in the independent schools…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Credentialing preschool teachers is very costly, and hard for some people to justify. When students do receive the degrees, they will be paid lower wages compared…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Getting Smart (via Forbes) examines some lessons from author Todd Rose’s books, in which he advocates for a more “radical” era of personalization in our schools.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Children & Nature Network interviews Meghan Fitzgerald, the co-founder of a program called Tinkergarten, which gets kids ages 18 months to 8 years old into the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A new report entitled The Paradox of Choice: How school choice divides New York City elementary schools shows that many students choose schools other than their assigned public school,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As the Trump Administration attempts to shift the focus of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program towards abstinence-only education, groups using evidence-based methods granted funding under the Obama Administration are…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As the number of jobs and skillsets an individual is now expected to hold over the course of their career increases the role of college in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Schools in Detroit are using home visits to foster goodwill and understanding between families and educators. • How can the tactics deployed in Detroit work elsewhere?…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A new study by Mathematica indicates that students who attended Democracy Prep – a charter school network with a focus on civic engagement – have a higher rate…