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Education and Its Public Purposes
How schools can support both individual and collective thriving in our democracy.
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Changemaker U.
Patrick Awuah launched Ashesi University as an institution of higher learning thoroughly shaped by social innovation. While it began by borrowing ideas, methods, and credibility from elsewhere, it has evolved into a uniquely Ghanaian enterprise that is a model for Africa and the world.
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Renegotiating the Education Social Contract for the Age of AI
Choice, agency, and how to design a learning system where private gain and public good reinforce each other.
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Education for Thriving Careers
What the research says about education, jobs, AI, and what students will need to succeed as future workers and citizens.
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Renewing Public Education’s Purpose
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Stuart Foundation are pleased to co-sponsor this series of diverse essays on the purpose of public education. The authors write from different vantage points, but each takes seriously a core question: In a time of widespread change, what is public education for, and how can it evolve to meet its promise?
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Large-scale social change requires broad cross-sector coordination, not the isolated intervention of individual organizations.
Ten Nonprofit Funding Models
With an understanding of these 10 funding models, nonprofit leaders can use the for-profit world's valuable practice of engaging in succinct and clear conversations about long-term financial strategy.
The Bias of ‘Professionalism’ Standards
Professionalism has become coded language for white favoritism in workplace practices that more often than not leave behind people of color. This is the fourth of 10 articles in a special series about diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
By working closely with the clients and consumers, design thinking allows high-impact solutions to social problems to bubble up from below rather than being imposed from the top.
The Science of What Makes People Care
Five principles based in social science that will help organizations connect their work to what people care most about.