With hard data and soft skills, Communities in Schools fine-tunes its model to reduce dropout rates.

Social Finance Inc. offers a network-based alternative to government-sponsored student loan programs.

Racial integration in US schools has declined in the wake of recent court decisions to release districts from earlier desegregation orders.

One of 16 special essays on how the field of social innovation has evolved and what challenges remain ahead.

The nonprofit Erste Foundation is an engine behind the for-profit Erste Group as well as its largest shareholder.

A new generation of teacher education programs is challenging how teachers get trained for the classroom.

A partnership between Fairfax High and the nonprofit Greenway Arts Alliance in Los Angeles has improved school finances and created a community hub.

An open source web application draws on the wisdom of the crowds to give the blind access to images.

Can financial education in grade school have long-term effects?

The nonprofit Fight for Peace uses boxing to create a dialogue with hard-to-reach urban youth.

We have largely ignored a vast wellspring of data in the analysis of the perceived value of higher education.

A cross-sector initiative aims to develop 21st-century skills in secondary school students—highlights from a recent survey.

Public and private schools are failing to give children in India a good education—we need an alternative approach.

Engaging communities of learners in massively open online courses to use their knowledge—and numbers—for good.

Mobile broadband will revolutionize learning networks around content delivery and workforce development.

Many programs targeting low-performing students rely on data that doesn’t indicate a real understanding of impact on students’ lives.

Online education is already changing the way people learn all over the world, but is it reaching the populations that can benefit most?

A slippery slope: from good-willed private philanthropy in support of public goals to a system in which private goals predominate.

Tech education and the power of opportunity—a report from the Social Innovation Summit.

Armed with robust shared measurement systems, national nonprofit networks are well positioned to scale promising and proven programs.

Katherine Perkins discusses what differentiates Physics Education Technology (PhET), and the range of students that have benefited.

In this Stanford University podcast, president Matthew Schnittman discusses the organization’s model for service delivery, and where it’s headed.

Justin Cahill talks about how his enterprise built a company called RISE, which now boasts 30,000 children learning English in more than 100 learning centers in one of the fastest-growing markets in world.

A look at new schools in Sweden that provide personalized and hands-on classroom experience.

Harvard business professor Leslie John reports on studies providing financial and social incentives to get people to lose weight.

Stanford assistant professor Greg Walton examines a psychological factor that contributes to inequalities between socially marginalized and non-marginalized groups.

Teachers play a key role in influencing the future not only of students, but of the country and world as a whole. What contributes to teacher effectiveness?

Educators, administrators, academics, business people, and politicians talk about potential solutions, what’s working, and what isn’t.

Chris Bradford, co-founder of the African Leadership Academy, discusses the role of educational institutions in shaping the future of Africa.

Jaquelin Hume Foundation Executive Director Gisele Huff talks about the foundation's investment strategy, and why innovation and technology initiatives are significant.