This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Elise Franchino at Pacific Standard writes on the current state of child care in America, and she proposes that states and localities should work together to have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Tom Vander Ark at Getting Smart explores Beaver Country Day School’s Research and Design Center and takes a look at how the innovation hub was designed to promote student-driven…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Absenteeism doesn’t just affect students, it costs schools money. Here, Governing Magazine identifies a simple solution to reduce the negative impact of absent students—mail-based intervention. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Jane Cheung at Americans for the Arts interviewed Anna Lisa Caraveo Flores, Director of Pablove Shutterbugs, a program that approaches childhood cancer through art and science. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • School discipline reform across the United States has shown that aggressive discipline measures profoundly disrupt students’ academic achievement and other less severe approaches (such as restorative…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Youth Villages offers foster care transition services for teenagers that are 18-21 who age out of the system, but still need support finding housing, jobs, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New data confirms that a record-breaking number of students experienced homelessness during the 2016-17 school year. The number of students who experience homelessness each year has been steadily ticking upward for more than…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Melissa S. Kearney shares policy solutions that would provide a better social safety net for American children to facilitate long-term success. • How do these suggestions align…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · A study published in the International Journal of Environmental Health Research has found that adults who had close childhood contact with the environment have better mental and physical health.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Writing for the Christensen Institute, Chelsea Waite explains that to better scale personalized learning and expand its impact, school leaders need to clearly identify and categorize the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · A new RAND Corporation study examining the usage of cannabis and tobacco/nicotine products together has produced negative results; young adults exhibited lower functionality and more problematic…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness studied the risk behaviors and health of homeless teens in New York City compared to their housed peers, concluding…