This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. $8.15 billion. That’s the amount global investors staked in edtech companies in the first 10 months of 2017. Education used to be simple: there was a blackboard, a teacher and desks in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 80 percent of students at Mission Elementary in this growing Bay Area suburb are from low-income backgrounds and are eligible for free or reduced-price lunches. Some have incarcerated…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The ability of disadvantaged students to navigate a path to and through college has never been more critical in an era with a broad wage gap based on post-secondary educational…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based learning approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. It feels natural to do the opposite,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We can help prepare students for the new gig economy by offering more opportunities for them to explore and create, through opportunities to not only explore the types of jobs…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new report released by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project points to the widespread failure to accurately teach the hard, and nuanced, history of American slavery and enslaved people.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. San Bernardino was still reeling from the recession in 2012 when it got a piece of what seemed like good news. Amazon, the global internet retailer, was opening a massive…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Civil society groups have reacted with dismay after the United Kingdom made an early but lower-than-expected pledge to replenish the Global Partnership for Education, sparking some fears the multilateral fund…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Dear friends in philanthropic advising — you community foundations, planned giving councils, Chartered Advisers in Philanthropy, Purposeful Planners, and more. We gather around to mourn the soon-likely death of our…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help. We must help teachers get the training they need…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Virtual Reality (VR) has been making great strides in the marketplace in the past year, and it is expected to expand significantly in the next decade. To date, the limiting factor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Staff at the University Children’s Learning Center on the campus of the University of North Dakota were nervous when state evaluators walked through their door. The evaluators came from Bright…