This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As children make their way back into physical classrooms after an unprecedented year of virtual education, parents and educators must ask a crucial question: What can be done to help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rural hospitals that were acquired in mergers from 2009 to 2016 were more likely than their independent peers to shutter their maternal, neonatal and surgical services, and more likely to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. One of the most high-profile trials of the year is underway to decide whether Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes defrauded patients and investors. Her blood testing startup, once valued at almost…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past school year, the Center on Reinventing Public Education has tracked how pandemic learning pods evolved from emergency responses to, in some cases, small, innovative, and personalized learning communities. This summer,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As students across the country wrestled with pandemic stress last winter, sophomore Nathaniel Martinez logged on to a virtual retreat. Forty mostly Black and Latino teens in Chicago were getting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many young people, going back to school has not been easy — and it is happening at a time when rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse have risen…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While 78% of teachers feel that it is part of their job to “help students develop strong social and emotional skills” and nearly 92% feel that the teaching of social-emotional…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Though menstruation is a natural part of life for more than half the world’s population, half a billion girls and women still lack the support they need to manage their…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Executive Director of Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC), Monique W. Morris, discusses the impact of COVID-19 on the Black community amid calls for racial justice. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Between 2012 and 2020, migrant workers from Mexico were recruited by companies in Illinois to construct hog and poultry enclosures under the H-2A temporary agricultural program. They came to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Black women have nearly a three-fold increased risk of triple negative breast cancers, according to a new study. These types of cancer have a poor prognosis. The analysis of nearly…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We are living in an unprecedented time, facing a global health pandemic, climate change, natural and humanitarian disasters, structural inequalities, and much more, requiring us to rethink philanthropy and to…