This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The summer of 2021 was devilishly hot across much of the U.S. Just five minutes in an attic guest room with no air conditioning could be enough to leave a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earlier this month, 16 years after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Ida battered southeast Louisiana and left hundreds of thousands of people without power. The storm, one of the strongest to hit Louisiana,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Ensuring that young people are both prepared and motivated to be the next stewards of our democracy is a crucial and oft-ignored condition for an improved political system. To remake…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Restoring native habitats to at least 20% of the world’s land currently being used by humans…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Despite the primacy of nation-states in diplomacy and at the UN podium, cities are on the frontlines of the challenges the SDGs address. With over 50% of the world’s population…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, is now present in virtually every country on earth. Each at different stages of the pandemic, there is a sense of foreboding…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Charitable giving by affluent Americans in 2020 averaged $43,195, a 48 percent increase over $29,269 in 2017, a report from Bank of America and Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy finds. Based on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Local leaders and institutions have the expertise and inherent capacities to solve their problems and help humanity address the world’s most pressing systemic challenges. However, they need grant and investor…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. COVID-19 didn’t just reveal a broken child care system. A confluence of events dramatically worsened the frayed patchwork of child care programs in the US, after significant drops in center enrollment when parents lost jobs,…
This playbook on family-school collaboration makes the case for why family engagement is essential for education systems transformation and why families and schools must have a shared understanding of what…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If North Carolina community colleges are going to boost enrollment, and if the state is going to meet its attainment goal of credentialing 2 million North Carolinians by 2030, adult learners will need to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools, also known as Orange Shirt Day, is a day to honor the victims and survivors of the 367 boarding schools in the United…