This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Online learning efforts may remain even when the pandemic fades away. Teachers’ confidence wavers in using edtech for instruction. Perhaps (not) coincidentally, there is more spending forecast for education technology.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Resilient Schools Project, a Future of School initiative, partners with districts, like South Dorchester School District Two (Summerville, SC) is an award-winning school system near the Charleston, South Carolina area…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The events of 2020 were deeply challenging, by many accounts — a time when trauma impacted so many of us, our families, our health, our communities, and our planet. Within…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It’s been almost a year since the coronavirus put the U.S. arts and culture sector in lockdown. At Americans for the Arts, we spent the last year surveying artists and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mental health problems have been increasingly recognised as one of the most significant health concerns for children and adolescents in developed countries. According to the World Health Organization, depression and anxiety disorders…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Part two in a four-part series. Read Parts One, Three, and Four. “If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. ACE has grappled with the financial, strategic, and psychological repercussions of COVID-19 and the emotional toll of the tragic events that necessitated the Black Lives Matter uprising (with which we show total…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Launched in 2014 with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Ford Foundation, and Wallace H. Coulter Foundation, the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund works to foster a culture of civic…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Even under normal circumstances, service providers struggle to meet the needs of children and families experiencing homelessness. And, these are far from normal times. Millions of families are now at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Educators have long recognized that creating connections between the school and the home has far-reaching positive benefits for individual students and the broader community. Effective family engagement both enables school…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. We’re entering Month No. 11 of the COVID-19 pandemic, and finally—mercifully, really—there’s a vaccine on the horizon to provide relative immunity from the potentially deadly virus. Many Americans have been…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since March 2020, the coronavirus pandemic has caused severe economic downturn and generated a spike in food insecurity in the country. At the same time, farmers had to destroy significant quantities of food because…