This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Making Friends With Yourself is an eight-week course hosted by UC San Diego that focuses on three components to help teens with self-compassion: common humanity, mindfulness, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Stock Market Game, a new online investing game designed to help teach college students financial literacy, is helping today’s youths navigate the financial world and boost…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Education Dive explains how schools are implementing STEM learning into the curriculum by teaming up with local colleges for hands-on activities. • What benefits come from…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • EdSurge covers Pamela Cantor’s discussion regarding the various effects of trauma, stress and mental health on educational outcomes and future success. • How can schools support…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The RAND Corp released a middle school curriculum that emphasizes the dangers of opioid misuse and heroin in an attempt to hinder the growth of the opioid…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Leaders of France, Canada and Britain have warned other nations of the major issues arising from the lack of gender equity in education. • As Global…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Cassie Taylor and Pranav Trewn share effective methods for increasing literacy among children based on behavioral science. • How can funders help to efficiently scale up these proven…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Joe McCarthy, writing for Global Citizen, lists seven activists that won the UN’s Champions of the Earth Award for their work in creating sustainability initiatives that help protect…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • You Can’t Be What You Can’t See by Mibrey W. McLaughlin tells the story about how CYCLE, an out-of-school-time tutoring program started in 1978 in Chicago, addressed the opportunity gap…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • A third of students reported being bullied in the 2017-18 school year in a YouthTruth Student Survey. White students and students of color reported different levels of bullying and different…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Hlumelo Siphe Williams explains how Lalela was founded to serve poor children in South Africa by helping them to create and sell art of all kinds. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Andre Perry, education policy expert, reports on the necessity for free, high-quality after-school care that should come from the Department of Education. • There is evidence that after-school…