This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Education leaders are suggesting that Common Core standards may account for the dip in National Assessment of Educational Progress scores, but caution against an overreaction. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In order to prepare students for an uncertain future, teachers need to build a range of broadly-applicable skills like collaboration and problem-solving. Figuring out how to best…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Charter schools have traditionally enjoyed strong bipartisan support, but that fell when Betsy DeVos was appointed as Secretary of Education. Now, support levels have come back…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Thee newly created Junior Board was initially managed by the then youngest board member, Ingrid Fox, who was attending Stanford University. As Junior Board Advisor, Ingrid was the liaison between…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Ace Parsi and Curtis Richards lay out six ways that individualized learning plans can work successfully for students with disabilities. • The key points outlined below…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Peter Nichols and Sam Nelson have formed a student planning committee focused on refining a personalized learning curriculum. They are part of a network of learning labs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jeffrey Walker interviewed Wendy Kopp, CEO of Teach For All as she shared her thoughts on the education system and collective leadership. • Wendy Kopp says that collective…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Presidential Leadership Scholars Program implores young scholars to listen to others’ viewpoints and work on problems in society by building coalitions that work together rather than…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Detroit schools did very poorly on the NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) scoring five points lower in 2017 than 2015. However, the superintendent is doing everything…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • EdSurge explores artificial intelligence that tries to help prospective college students connect with the school that best suits them, while admissions departments are looking into how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The 74 reports the growing popularity of vaping among teens, even as the Surgeon General issued a warning about the health hazards associated with e-cigarettes. •…
Giving Compass’ Take: • Angela Duckworth is best known for work on grit, but since she received backlash on her research she is expanding to a model of character development for…