This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Plans for removing carbon from the atmosphere, if they proved workable, could exact a lethal price from those least able to afford it: starvation for the world’s poorest people. Anti-poverty…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Rental payment history is a strong indicator of how well a borrower would perform with a mortgage loan. But until this week, these data have been largely left out of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As police shootings have become a flashpoint in U.S. cities, The Marshall Project and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting spent a year examining those urban killings’ little-publicized counterparts in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The traditional 9-to-5 day at a single employer isn’t a reality for many workers. Although data are limited on nontraditional workers, available data do show that more employers are using contractors, franchises,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. This week, I read the Road Block Analysis Report by the Open Road Alliance that shows that the biggest barrier nonprofits face is…our very own funders. In fact, according to the executive summary: Funder-Created…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In his landmark economic text Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith wrote that the “invisible hand” of the market would neatly divide the world’s resources among its needs: Prices would act as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At The Learning Accelerator, we’ve spent the past year deeply networking with more than 100 school leaders across eight regions nationally. This work is founded on the belief that great principals…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The switch to telehealth showed how virtual physical therapy services are possible, but also exposed some technical issues for people living in rural areas. As a pediatric physical therapist in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If the pandemic has taught us anything – other than that working from home has pros and cons, especially if you’re a parent trying to home school during a lockdown…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Both human and swine waste contaminated surface waters with fecal bacteria in the wake of 2018’s Hurricane Florence, according to a new study. “We found that surface waters in eastern…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The problem is not that schools aren’t collecting enough information about student performance. It’s that teachers have too much data. It’s overwhelming for them. They don’t know what data points to focus…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Each day educators interact with young people facing challenges like food insecurity, immigration, and deportation issues, social or emotional health, fear of school shootings, sexual and gender orientation, just to…