This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • One teacher tells her story of how she uses music in the classroom to help immigrant students learn English in the Indianapolis Public Schools Newcomer Program. • How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Leslie Crutchfield’s book called “How Change Happens: Why Some Movements Succeed While Others Don’t” examines why certain social movements are successful. • Crutchfield focuses on one topic in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Causeartist discusses the rising number of homeless individuals in the US and provides a list of different ventures addressing this issue. · How can philanthropy help…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Chalkbeat discusses the importance of allowing students to learn more about their culture in schools and providing curriculum that is culturally relevant. · How can educators create comfortable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fredrick D. Scott argues that protests are insufficient to improve the state of civil rights in the modern day and that black Americans must pool capital and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Mason Adams explains how the Virginia state legislator has changed state policies to improve mental health care in the state. • What further improvements are needed? How can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Global Citizen is holding leaders accountable to keep the promise of an Open Defecation Free world because poor and unsafe sanitation has led to deaths and dire…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Gina Martin, an English activist, is attempting to make the practice of upskirting (taking photos underneath women’s skirts) illegal. And she is using social media campaigns and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How have humans solved world problems, found cures to diseases, and invented machines that could take us farther distances? Science, technology, engineering, and math have all helped innovative minds to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Although society is continuously advancing, those shifts don’t always translate over to the American education system. Dan Greenwald explains the need for change now and created Pipeline Alliance as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’re living in a time when groups of people are mobilizing to make historic change (#BlackLivesMatter, #MeToo and #MarchForOurLives, to name a few). We also live in a time of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · According to Governing Magazine, a transgender student in Oregon was supported by U.S. District Judge Marco Hernandez to use school facilities that align with his gender identity. …