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09.21.20

Learning to Overcome

Launched with UNICEF, our new podcast features educators and innovators who share their ideas and strategies to support our students’...

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09.10.20

Helping Student Parents Overcome Barriers

A new report from Imaginable Futures and Lumina Foundation examines promising ideas and practices in supporting student parents, common barriers to success, as well as innovative ways to overcome them.

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09.09.20

Fostering Innovation to Support Student Parents

Student parents make up 22% of the undergraduate population. This report from...

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09.08.20

What If the Redesign of Education Put Racial and Social Equity at Its Core?

"Learning has been disrupted because of the pandemic, yet also reimagined. I don't fantasize remote learning will ever be as good as being in school," shares our Amy Klement in...

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08.20.20

Learning Reimagined: Radical Thinking for Equitable Futures

What if our learning systems could be redesigned to eliminate embedded inequities? Read our report Learning Reimagined: Radical Thinking for Equitable Futures.

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08.20.20

What If We Adopted Radical Thinking for Equitable Futures?

Amy Klement and Erin Simmons share our Learning Reimagined: Radical Thinking for...

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08.05.20

A Step Toward Democratizing Our Program Funding Decisions

We teamed up with the Lemann Foundation to commit a combined $1 million for a COVID-19 emergency relief program in Brazil. In this post, we announce the grant recipients and...

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07.23.20

More Than a Quarter of Learners in Brazil Have Not Received Any Learning Activity, Datafolha Study Finds

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07.15.20

Research Team Explores Global Scales of Early Development

A research team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center was awarded $430,000 in funding from five foundations to conduct the first U.S.-based validation of a new scale of early...

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06.11.20

Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?

There is a near-universal consensus that early learning programs can break cycles of poverty and lead to lasting upward mobility. But they have always been fragile, and now more so...

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