THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF THE BIDEN-HARRIS ADMINISTRATION SERIES:

A conversation with John B. King, former Secretary of Education and President and CEO of The Education Trust, on the Biden/Harris administration's first 100 days in the education domain.

A conversation with social entrepreneurs Rebecca Taber Staehelin and Connor Diemand-Yauman, the Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of Merit America — who seek to change the workforce on-ramp.

A conversation with Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Fernando M. Reimers on successful innovations and positive strategies employed by education leaders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reflecting on three decades of social impact work on the University of Maryland Baltimore Country campus and in the community, President Freeman Hrabowski, Peter Henderson, and Anthony Lane recognize the wide-ranging benefits of this engaged, solutions-oriented approach to education and community building.

COVID-19 RECOVERY SERIES:

While acknowledging the profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young people, educators, non-profit leaders, mental health experts, young people, and education researchers share stories of hope, strength, and resilience from the work children are doing to lead the way to recovery in communities around the world.

Even before the outbreak of COVID-19, the path to economic opportunity in the United States has become less clear as workers’ careers have taken increasingly non-traditional routes. Mike Meotti and Drew Magliozzi paint a compelling portrait of how technology can carve new tracks and create new ways of working.

The crisis of COVID-19, the resulting economic downturn, and the racial reckoning the country is now experiencing have made the need for equitable, high-quality education even more urgent. Author Irvin Scott’s model for the Education Ecosystem illuminates news ways of working.

Harvard ALI Fellow, Julie Allen, argues in this OpEd that federal education aid for schools, without aid for state and local governments, would be ineffective given the three-level system of education funding in the U.S.

POST-ELECTION SERIES:

Paul Reville, Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education and former Secretary of Education for Massachusetts, discusses the education legacy of the Trump administration, potential policy changes under the Biden-Harris administration, and the need for equitable funding and strategic approaches to address the challenges facing the education system, promoting equity and opportunity for all students.

The majority of American colleges and universities are caught between two powerful and opposing forces: the compelling need to change and the structural resistance to change. Brian Rosenberg, President Emeritus of Macalester College, provides a compelling example of innovation in Africa and what the US education systems can learn.

We caught up with James Honan, Senior Lecturer on Education at Harvard Graduate School of Education and faculty member with the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, for this installment of the Social Impact Review Spotlight.

A conversation with Howard Gardner, the John H. and Elizabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, who has had a distinguished career as an innovative educator and psychologist.

Despite numerous, well-intentioned efforts to close the K-12 education and healthcare gaps in America, we have barely seen any progress. Why is this? Tom Hedrick outlines the problems and gives his thoughts on what we should do.