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Private Schools for the Poor

All across the developing world, poor parents are investing in low-cost private education for their children—and seeing positive results.
By Josh Kwan | Spring 2012

Articles

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  • CLASS WARFARE:
Inside the Fight to
Fix America’s Schools
Steven Brill Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools by Steven Brill

    Reviewed By Jonathan Schorr
  • A new approach that builds relevant marketplace, entrepreneurship, and health care skills is needed.

    By Mark J. Epstein & Kristi Yuthas | 12
  • A new Facebook app helps incoming freshmen connect—but within the closed community of their college.

    By Suzie Boss
  • American educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.

    By Carrie R. Leana | 17
  • KaBOOM! How One
Man Built a Movement
to Save Play
Darell Hammond KaBOOM! How One Man Built a Movement to Save Play by Darell Hammond

    Reviewed By Paul Connolly
  • Transformational leaders capitalize on the creativity that employees have.

    By Jessica Ruvinsky
  • The National Math and Science Initiative aims to avert the crisis in secondary school education by replicating proven programs.

    By Suzie Boss | 1
  • Private foundations that finance education in developing countries need to be more transparent in their mission and impact.

    By Jessica Ruvinsky
  • Worldreader.org is using electronic reading devices to catalyze a new culture of global literacy.

    By Suzie Boss | 3
  • The Indian higher education system centers on one test. Avanti Fellows seeks to make the system more accessible to talented but underprivileged students.

    By Suzie Boss

Blog Posts

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Podcasts

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  • 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?

    Featuring a Global Education Conference panel | 1
  • Educators, administrators, academics, business people, and politicians talk about potential solutions, what’s working, and what isn’t.

    Featuring a Global Education Conference panel
  • Chris Bradford,  Co-founder of the African Leadership Academy, on the role of education in Africa. Chris Bradford, co-founder of the African Leadership Academy, discusses the role of educational institutions in shaping the future of Africa.

    Featuring Chris Bradford
  • Executive Director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation Gisèle Huff on the role of social innovation in nonprofits. Jaquelin Hume Foundation Executive Director Gisele Huff talks about the foundation's investment strategy, and why innovation and technology initiatives are significant.

    Featuring Gisele Huff
  • Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, on social entrepreneurship Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka, identifies key skills of change makers and lays out a plan to teach these skills around the world.

    Featuring Bill Drayton
  • Founder of DonorsChoose.org Charles Best on his company and nonprofit management Founder of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity helping students in need, Charles Best talks about how he started the organization and what some of its challenges have been along the way.

    Featuring Charles Best
  • EduCare founder and CEO Piyush Mangukiya on social entrepreneurship in education EduCare founder and CEO Piyush Mangukiya discusses his commitment to helping students in developing countries and how he started the enterprise.

    Featuring Piyush Mangukiya