This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Service Year Alliance is an organization that offers paid job opportunities for young people for a full year to understand the future workforce. • How will giving job…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Lauren Hess recounts her time at the 2018 Americans for the Arts Annual Convention in which an important takeaway was for organizations to involve youth in their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · With a rising rate of non-communicable diseases, activists in Kenya are looking to tackle this issue by targeting young people and educating them on how to eat…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Educators face great challenges when working on the various tasks of their jobs. Thomas Arnett at Christensen Institute discusses the benefits that specialized teaching roles could provide…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · EdSurge interviews Neuroscientist David Eagleman about brain training and plasticity and explains that children today have very different brains in comparison to generations before. Due to the high-tech…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · News Deeply reports Argentina’s attempts to reduce childhood obesity rates despite facing industry objections. With ambitious ideas to reduce overweight and obesity, advocates are promoting legislation…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author offers a list of ways that parents can engage with their children and be more involved in social-emotional learning programs by incorporating SEL learning tasks…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Causeartist discusses Durell Coleman’s Design the Future, a week-long program that focuses on teaching students in high schools the “how” behind changing the world. · How does design…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author examines the role of family and community care for orphans in Africa once they shut down the orphanages. This practice puts a burden on women who…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Getting Smart discusses the challenges special education students and teachers face in segregated classrooms. Research shows that these students are put at a disadvantage when separated from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · At San Francisco’s Aptos Middle School, teacher Taji Allen-Sanchez uses project-based learning and performance assessments with his students to foster the skills necessary to succeed after school. Edutopia…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · The Hechinger Report explains that children from low-income families usually benefit when their education is mixed with students from a range of economic backgrounds. It is…