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JULY 14, 2017

This week saw the release of the third in a series of personalized learning studies conducted by the RAND Foundation. The research analyzed implementation, survey, and efficacy data in a sample of schools that are part of the Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC) portfolio, and compared that data to a national sample of schools. The findings? NGLC schools yielded some positive academic results, but educators and administrators reported numerous challenges.

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JANUARY 6, 2021

2020 put all of us, and especially our education systems, to the test. The challenges students and educators faced were not just academic, but social.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

This piece was co-authored by Christimara Garcia, a volunteer at the Christensen Institute and founder of Catalyze Innovations Initiative, a Brazilian market-creating innovation action tank.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

With the start of the new year many Americans are facing the harsh reality that major problems in our society are following us into 2021. However, one reassuring aspect of the new year is the rollout of COVID vaccines, which started last December.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Before 19th century American innovator and businessman, Isaac Singer, developed an efficient sewing machine for the masses, experts at the time told him his business would fail.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

With COVID-19 cases again on the rise, schools are once again closing their doors this year. Meanwhile, the toll on many educators, students, and families feels crushing. It may be the biggest understatement of 2020 to say that the pandemic has thrown K–12 environments into turmoil.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to our Innovators Creating Prosperity series, spotlighting organizations across the globe that are positively impacting economic development.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It can be hard to see anything positive about the cards schools were dealt in 2020. COVID-19 and ongoing public reckoning with systemic racism are drawing attention to longstanding, chronic problems in the education sector.

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JANUARY 21, 2021

As many colleges and universities face not only the financial strains stemming from COVID-19, but also the challenges of a broken business model that was in peril before the pandemic, many have sought to dig themselves out by launching new programs that generate new revenue.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

Some school buildings may be open again, but things won’t be back to normal. In all likelihood, students will have to come to campuses part-time in shifts, which creates a whole host of challenges for schools as they strive to offer comprehensive educational opportunities.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

As we enter 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic wears on, no doubt predictions will abound about the transformations that may result from a year of thoroughly unconventional schooling.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Image source: Flickr, Steve Eason. If a government chooses to fire live ammunition at citizens who are peacefully protesting, then the social contract between citizen and State is fundamentally broken.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Late last year, Britain’s Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED) published a series of reports on the variables that helped or hindered students’ ability to cope during the pandemic. The bottom line?

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Although the UN General Assembly meetings began with bitter political sparring between countries such as the United States and China, many world leaders are taking this opportunity to sound the alarm on the untold suffering the COVID-19 pandemic has caused and the looming crisis coming from climate change.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

Mira Mehta is on a mission. Through her company Tomato Jos , she hopes to make tomato paste affordable to the average Nigerian, increase local farmers’ income by making tomato farming more productive, and make tomato processing, distribution, and sales more profitable for entrepreneurs.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

Conventional wisdom is that higher education is countercyclical. During recessions, and periods of high unemployment, people use the time to go back to school and upskill. .

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Just months after schools abruptly shut their doors this spring, parents’ cries of mental health declines among their children echoed through social media.

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If your school’s SIS has limited functions, only works on campus or breaks down more than you would like, it might time to invest in a new one.

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DECEMBER 22, 2020

Looking back, many will remember 2020 as the year of the pandemic. Although this past year has undoubtedly been a crucible moment for governments, healthcare organizations, educators, frontline workers, and virtually every person on the planet, it’s also been defined by immense innovation.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

Before COVID-19, the world was replete with anti-poverty programs. And considering the fact that around 100 million people will slide into poverty as a result of the economic impact of the pandemic, more anti-poverty programs are bound to emerge.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Alarm bells of the COVID-19 slide have activated parents to organize and redesign their children’s learning experiences in unprecedented ways. Many parents are continuing to reject school reopening plans to instead opt into microschools.

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OCTOBER 13, 2020

Among its many trials, the year 2020 has brought a swift and massive shift to remote and hybrid instruction. These models are not entirely new, but adopting them in such short order to address the necessity of social distancing has not been easy.

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What if teachers didn’t have to lug tons of paperwork with them to and from work? Having lesson plans available anywhere is just one of the advantages.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

The year is almost over, and what a whirlwind of a year it was. This time last year, no one expected 2020 to be filled with toilet paper shortages or family gatherings via Zoom. Yet here we are, nine months later, adjusting to a new world and hoping the vaccinations will be distributed soon.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

2020 has been a tough year for most people, but the world’s two billion informal workers and their families have been hardest hit. Informal economies exist everywhere, but an estimated 93% of the world’s informal workers live in emerging economies.

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

During COVID, essential ingredients for learning are in short supply. Many factors are driving a decrease in undergraduate enrollments this year, but community college students in particular report suffering from limited access to their professors for academic support.

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AUGUST 20, 2020

“The financial engine for half the world’s jobs is about to seize up,” is how Michael Schlein of Accion, a financial inclusion nonprofit, put it. As the pandemic forces micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across the globe to shut down, many will struggle to reopen.

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Do you know three of the biggest reasons families leave schools? Here they are – and what you can do about it.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

This time last year, no one could have foreseen the dramatic way in which 2020’s challenges would alter people’s lives around the world.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

In 2011, someone broke into my sister’s office at the university where she teaches in Nigeria. Thankfully, the person was caught, arrested, and charged.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Practically overnight, the coronavirus pandemic turned at-home learning from a fringe practice into a global phenomenon.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Across the country, redefining the status quo has become the status quo for K–12 schools. Wide-scale remote and hybrid learning, mask-wearing culture, and “pods” all fall outside the bounds of what most of us imagined as mainstream schooling before this year.

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