This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Latisha Coleman, director of Redesign and assistant principal at Anacostia High School in Washington, DC, made some tough calls last year. Before COVID-19, the school had worked closely with families…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Malini lives in the district of Nuh in Haryana in India. She is currently enrolled in eighth grade and has been using her father’s phone for an hour a few…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. World health experts met recently to discuss an emerging global health crisis linked to the COVID-19 pandemic: plummeting rates of basic vaccinations among the world’s children. While many experts have been acutely…
In this episode we talk to Stelio Stefanou OBE, philanthropist and Founder of the For Baby’s Sake Trust (FBST) – a charity which focuses on working with parents to address…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. To encourage young people to get COVID vaccines before the first day of school on Sept. 13, the city is opening 25 pop-up vaccination sites at Summer Rising programs starting…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Whether it’s seeing violent behavior with a family or among others in the neighborhood, or in movies, television, or violent video games, the gun use and acceptance among young adults…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After a year of prolonged school closures due to the Covid-19 pandemic, California’s educators have been hard at work readying to open to full-time, in-person learning across the state. Schools…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As policymakers, principals, and parents wrestle with the reopening of schools, many are struggling with what feel like competing priorities. How do we address the gaps in academic learning that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Nevada’s school buildings closed in March 2020, the state’s 17 districts had varying abilities to support distance learning. A couple were well on their way, with quality instructional materials,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, more than half of the world’s children are growing up in cities. By 2030, up to 60 percent of the world’s urban population will be under 18-years old. Yet,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Though about 12 million students in this country still lack any internet access at all—a problem cast into relief during the pandemic—there is good news: That number is steadily shrinking.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When I was a charter school leader, I constantly heard reformers justify district takeovers, teacher firings, ineffective voucher programs, and abusive “no excuse” discipline policies by saying, “It’s all about…