This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rohingya refugees moved to a Bangladesh island fear they will be exposed to terrible conditions during the upcoming monsoon season, and are struggling with “inadequate” health and education facilities, a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Issues of Black-white inequality and racial injustice have taken center stage over the past year to a degree not seen for a generation. These issues cover a wide range of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite a slight increase in the number of engineering degrees achieved by Black/African American and Latinx students over the past two decades, the two groups still lag severely when it…
Giving Compass’ Take: • The report, Reentry to Foster Care: Identifying Candidates Under the Family First Act, focuses on rates of infants and teens that are at high risk of re-entering…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When science teacher Kathryn Spivey told her students at Benjamin Banneker Middle School in Burtonsville, Maryland that they were going to take off and visit planet Mars for a day on a Magic School Bus of their own, they didn’t know what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It wasn’t long after Matthew Reed shoplifted a $63 set of sheets from a Target in upstate New York that the coronavirus pandemic brought the world to a standstill. Instead…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When COVID-19 reached the Sky Lakes Medical Center in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the uncertainty hit its frontline health care workers hard. “There’s been a lot more fear and death that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low in 2020 — just as it did in 2019, and 2018. Although the COVID-19 pandemic seems to have accelerated this decline, the drop has been underway for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new report from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences’ Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship offers strategies and recommendations designed to help the country emerge from this current moment…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Biases and misperceptions at the K-12 level contribute to the gender gap in postsecondary STEM education and related careers, experts say. More male students favor math and have more confidence in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The internationally agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are starting to become a reference point for a wide range of public and private actors. In recent weeks, for example, New York City…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As young people continue to line up for coronavirus shots, the gender breakdown appears, well, surprisingly even. Compared to a persistent gap between adult men and women in vaccination rates,…