This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Congress’s bipartisan budget agreement includes a historic funding increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the nation’s largest federal child care assistance program. The additional $5.8 billion for…
Traditionally, the majority of public two-year and four-year colleges have relied solely on standardized tests to assess students’ college readiness in math and English language skills. Numerous studies, however, have…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Building and keeping a highly effective nonprofit staff is really tricky. The recently released 2015 Nonprofit Employment Practices Survey from NonprofitHR found that 50% of nonprofits surveyed plan to add new positions in 2015, compared to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More babies are dying each year in West and Central Africa even as child health improves overall, aid agencies said, calling the region’s newborn death rate a “hidden tragedy.” One…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rise Against Hunger — an international hunger relief organization based in Raleigh, N.C. — is committed to ending world hunger by the year 2030. To that end, the non-profit officially…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, isn’t fading quietly from the headlines like so many acts of gun violence before it. Nearly two weeks after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School,…
A new Pew Research Center survey attempts to better understand the complex relationship Americans have with guns and how that relationship intersects with their policy views. The survey finds that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. War has consumed Afghanistan for the past 17 years, so it’s unsurprising that the country ranks 152 out of 153 on the Women, Peace, and Security Index. The Index reports that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Though studies on homework show contradictory results, the research on family engagement in education is clear: involving families in students’ learning increases academic achievement and student success for all students, regardless of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Row 7 is a seed company devoted to creating new varieties of vegetables—and we’re hoping eventually grain—that have been selected and bred for flavor. The idea came out of a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Agriculture is one of the Gates Foundation’s largest initiatives. Our goal is to support countries in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia that are committed to transforming their agriculture sectors to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world talks a lot about the digital revolution, but few connect it to the coming agriculture revolution, especially in Africa. Digital solutions have huge potential for helping farmers boost…