This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Exeko, a Canadian-based organization, is fighting social exclusion by promoting engagement and innovation between citizens, even the marginalized ones, to become active social change agents. • What…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • TIME magazine takes a look inside of Seattle’s specialized “recovery” high schools aimed at giving youths an education while battling addiction disorders. • Could this model…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The Hechinger Report details a program called Boston Uncovered that offers free college prep, mentors and stipends to gang members in the hopes of breaking a cycle…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · David Ross discusses a new report regarding the future of work and explains that education must prepare students with the skills they need for open jobs.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Linda Jacobson explains that although artificial intelligence is helping make the lives of teachers easier, this technology is still unlikely to fully replace them. · How…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: · Ashley Winstead and Jake Horowitz share their opinions on the changes needed to improve America’s criminal justice system, starting with a shift in mindset and policy reforms to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Dwyer Gunn at Pacific Standard discusses reasons why there is still an increase of racial economic disparity in America. The report show that comparatively white families still…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • In this story from Urban Wire, the authors assess the economic consequences of limiting legal immigration into the United States. • Restricting legal immigration would reduce…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sarah Zhang at The Atlantic discusses the challenges of someone who is allergic to corn. The versatility of corn allows it to be found not only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • The author discusses recommendations by career services professionals, who offer suggestions of how to broaden career prep resources for students during their post-secondary education. • How…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This toolkit from MENTOR is designed to help build high-quality mentoring relationships for different categories of immigrant youth. While most of the details are targeted toward program…
Giving Compass’ Take: • This MENTOR paper examines ways that mentors can help support young people who have experienced trauma in their personal lives or their environment. • Among the…