This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten lit a fuse that led to an explosion of controversy over school choice and race. In a fervent speech to union activists attending the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Healthy social-emotional development in young children paves the way for mental health in adulthood. However, Walter Gilliam’s 2005 research dramatically showed that many young children were not developing these competencies.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. High-profile education philanthropist Eli Broad has announced he’s stepping away from day-to-day duties at the foundation that he and his wife founded—as well as public life in general—but his legacy…
In episode 8 of the Giving Thought podcast, Rhod and Adam look at the long and complicated relationship between philanthropy and education, including: Charitable status of UK public schools The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Many of the country’s largest tech companies, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce pledged a total of $300 million for computer science education, part of a partnership with the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Devex spoke to Winnie Byanyima, the head of Oxfam International, after she took part in a panel session organized during the annual World Bank/IMF meetings in Washington, D.C. recently. The…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. DISD (Dallas Independent School District) is in the first year of a three-year plan to expand computer science curriculum to all 151 elementary campuses. It’s one of the largest rollouts…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Gayathri hails from Kolar, a district in Karnataka over 60 km away from Bengaluru. She lost her father when she was a child and was raised by her mother. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The demands on rural community colleges often go beyond academics when it comes to keeping students from dropping out of an institution. Food, transportation, housing, health care, child care and broadband…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For TyAnthony Davis, circumstance stopped dictating destiny in the fourth grade. One day he was pulled out of class and taken to the cafeteria to do what seemed to him,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Google will invest $1 billion over the next five years in nonprofit organizations helping people adjust to the changing nature of work, the largest philanthropic pledge to date from the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Daniel Lubetzky, the founder of snack bar giant Kind, is a Mexican immigrant. His father was a Holocaust survivor. So when he started his business in 2004 with the name…