This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Education leaders across Michigan are increasingly sounding an alarm over the way the state funds special education. A report from the lieutenant governor’s office last week blasted current the state’s current funding…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is increasingly acknowledged that the global gender gap is severe, with major negative economic and social consequences, and that accelerating progress toward gender parity has enormous benefits. Yet progress…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. About a third of the young adults who enter YouthBuild have a criminal record, which means they share something in common with the venerable organization’s CEO, John Valverde. When he…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Most rural women in India lack a land title. If one’s husband died, or decided to leave the family, they could be left homeless, without rights to their home. All…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. You know the way corals are formed? Like microorganisms piling up on each other—it’s kind of like a pileup of many conversations and experiences.” This is how Tim Rios describes…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s not every day you meet someone like Aida Rodriguez. She’s not your typical professor, your typical philanthropoid, your typical mentor, nor is she typical in any other way you…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A global partnership to drive access to family planning services has reported that almost 40 million more women and girls are using contraception since the initiative launched five years ago.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s a Wednesday morning, and I’m at an event in Lower Manhattan celebrating the inaugural class of Unlocked Futures, a 16-month-long accelerator for social entrepreneurs who have been incarcerated or impacted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In early 2018, the United States Agency for International Development will issue an open call for proposals for innovative ideas to bridge the “gender digital divide,” or gender inequalities caused by barriers…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new report from the nonpartisan U.S. Government Accountability Office says many of the nation’s voucher programs — and the private schools that participate in them — aren’t giving parents the information…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Human Rights Commission, the Supreme Court faces a choice between two very different visions of American civil society. The state of Colorado and a same-sex couple,…
The Rohingya face the final stages of genocide. Decades of persecution have taken on a new and intensified form since mass killings in 2012. The marked escalation in State-sponsored stigmatisation,…