When George LaComb moved two years ago to a new high school in Orlando, Florida, he quickly noticed safety precautions that the football team at his previous, less affluent school…
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Elevating Student Voices to Create Change and Scale Innovation
The 74 Mar 31, 2026During an afternoon in the nation’s capital, a high school cafeteria buzzed with conversation as teachers, staff and students gathered around circular tables. It wasn’t lunchtime, it was a staff…
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Nonprofit Quarterly Mar 30, 2026On a humid Thursday in Doha, Qatar, I opened my laptop and waited for 72 women to log into the online university course I was teaching. Outside my window, life…
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How Philanthropy Can Give Every Young Child and Family the Opportunity to Thrive
The Bridgespan Group Mar 23, 2026By investing in young children and their families, funders can help lay the foundation for those children to thrive for the rest of their lives—with benefits for all communities across…
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The Child Detention Industry: Understanding Its Rapid Expansion
Nonprofit Quarterly Mar 23, 2026In the beginning of March 2026, Alix Webb and Mike Ishii joined community and faith leaders from around the country on a 90-mile march from the Dilley immigrant detention facility…
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Stanford Social Innovation Review Mar 23, 2026The day after the Affordable Care Act was signed, I was at a forum with many of the nation’s leading children’s health experts, discussing funding advocacy for children’s health. The…
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EdSurge Mar 20, 2026When a water-treatment plant outside Denver discovered an algae problem in its pipes, it did not call an engineering firm. It called the students, underscoring school districts’ focus on building…
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EdSurge Mar 19, 2026The alert came around 7 p.m. Brittani Phillips checked her phone. A middle school counselor in Putnam County, Florida, Phillips receives messages from an artificial intelligence-enabled therapy platform that students…
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How Schools Are Saving Money by Reducing Their Carbon Emissions
The Hechinger Report Mar 19, 2026In Warren County, Kentucky, the school district saved more than $2 million in utility costs since retrofitting five schools with solar panels and introducing other energy efficiencies. In Jamestown, Rhode…
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Cal State University System Considers Options for After-Hours Mental Health Care
EdSource Mar 18, 2026Jazmin Guajardo has seen Cal State university system students with the kind of anxiety that “consumes them” not only throughout their day, but outside the normal business hours of the…
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How the Student Loan System Disproportionately Constrains Women’s Financial Futures
The 19th Mar 18, 2026Mary Modica tried to do everything right. When a rise in digital music signaled she should reconsider a radio career, Modica decided to become a teacher — with the understanding…
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The Fight to Save a Native American Studies Course at a Texas High School
The Hechinger Report Mar 18, 2026Savion Horn watched as “before” and “after” images appeared on a screen at the front of his classroom: black-and-white photos of boys and girls, much younger than him and his…
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