This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Crime Report’s Julia Pagnamenta recently spoke with College Behind Bars documentary experts to examine the failures and inadequacies of the U.S. educational system and the “moral argument”…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Chiefs for Change, a nonprofit education leadership program partners with schools to provide support, mentorship, and strategies for academic success. • The partnerships showed clear benefits…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Adam Bryant Miller, a research assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, discusses how his lab is trying to understand how to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • To address youth homelessness from a systems perspective, organizations are forging partnerships with juvenile justice systems to disrupt the outcomes for young people. • How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Marcus A. Winters at the Manhattan Institute touches on the impact school closures have on current students and what needs to be done to ensure a smooth…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • As schools are trying to solve chronic absenteeism, educators must prioritize listening to children who are experiencing trauma outside of school. • What are helpful resources…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Director of a small community center called SHAPE in Houston, Texas, discusses how the center aims to get equity from feedback to solve community problems. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • More U.S. school districts are addressing high rates of absenteeism by first addressing county poverty and provide wrap-around services for students that could benefit from them. …
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Linda Poon explains how the Tallahassee Engaged in Meaningful Productivity for Opportunity aims to support disconnected youth, contributing to the city’s resilience efforts. • How can funders boost…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Grigory Okhotin and Leonid Drabkin explain how OVD-Info uses feedback to improve their efforts to track politically-motivated prosecutions in Russia. • How can funders support the effective implementation of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Oakland Unified School District’s African-American Male Achievement initiative was able to significantly reduce the high school dropout rate of black males. • The effort was…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Researchers found the top charter schools that are best serving students with disabilities and provide recommendations on how other schools can replicate these efforts. • What…