This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. October was the month we started to better understand how the 2020 pivot to remote instruction, and the subsequent fight to keep classrooms open amid COVID and the Delta variant,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Enrollment in the nation’s largest school system has dropped roughly 1.9% this school year, according to preliminary figures released Friday by the education department. Roughly 938,000 students are enrolled in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the first two weeks of November, all eyes will be on Glasgow as the much-anticipated COP26—the 26th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Convention on Climate Change—unfolds. While…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I never expected to work with youth. Growing up, I did well in school. I was a huge baseball fan, particularly of the Chicago Cubs. But by age 17, I…
Child marriage is #Solvable. Princess Mabel van Oranje of the Netherlands outlines how we can share a percentage of what we spend on weddings to help end the crisis of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Detroit, Forbes announced from the stage the STOP Award, a new $1 million prize open to education innovators, providers and entrepreneurs who continued to support underserved…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 pandemic has reinforced the importance of child care for families with young children, but it has also exposed the child care crisis that existed long before March 2020. Early childhood…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea States’ financial investments in public benefit programs for low-income families are associated with less child abuse…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After 18 months away, the fabric of our community had begun to fray. We’d forgotten what it looked like to learn together and eroded part of the foundation of trust…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the approximately 820 million people coping with chronic hunger, it’s not about missing a single meal; it’s about days and months and years of being undernourished. For children, continued…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Some 28 million Americans still aren’t eligible for coronavirus vaccines—elementary school-aged kids between the ages of 5 and 11—but Biden administration officials announced that’s poised to change soon. The White…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “We have a partnership with a regional food bank,” a principal once told me on a school visit. “Each Friday, every eligible student gets a red backpack full of food…