This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In NAACP task force has recommended an end to for-profit charter schools and reforms that would take away much of the autonomy charters enjoy by holding them to many of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For Richard A. Carranza, the newly appointed Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, education has always represented a powerful gift brimming with opportunity. But he knows how hard it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Universities have long been a political battleground representing some of the United States’ most deeply held beliefs about meritocracy, who belongs, and who is “deserving” of higher education. I’m an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Count me among the disappointed to read the now-infamous memo written by former Google engineer, James Damore. The 10-page memo read more like a manifesto and described in detail how…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Evidence shows how institutional discrimination and adverse neighborhood and home environments leave boys and young men of color with fewer of the resources and skills necessary to succeed academically and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now reported this week that immigrants in the path of Hurricane Harvey were afraid to evacuate to shelters or approach authorities to seek help due to a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This question, posed by moderator Penny Fujiko Willgerodt, Executive Director of The Prospect Hill Foundation, kicked off Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ invitation-only Conversation on Criminal Justice Reform featuring Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. many states allow discrimination against LGBTQ people, so it’s legal for many nonprofits to openly discriminate this way. BMP’s Sean Thomas-Breitfield said, “What stands out is that the nonprofit sector…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even after decades of affirmative action, black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities than they were 35 years ago, according to a New…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earlier this year, Battalia Winston analyzed the leadership teams of the largest foundations and nonprofits in the United States and found that they, too, suffer from homogeneity. We found, for instance, that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Reminiscing about the Dr. Seuss books we loved as children is usually a happy time for adults. We might remember first learning about equality in Horton Hears a Who! or getting starry-eyed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A million refugees arrived in Europe this year, says Alexander Betts, and ‘our response, frankly, has been pathetic.’ Betts studies forced migration, the impossible choice for families between the camps,…