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Podcast response: Where’s the ‘value’ in ‘value added’ testing?
Willy Oppenheim is a doctoral student in the Education department at Oxford University, and the founder and director of Omprakash. Willy’s research has included fieldwork-based projects in Tibet and...
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Podcast response: Moving beyond performance pay
Today’s guest blogger is Abi Adams, a doctoral student in Economics at Oxford University. She is an economics lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford and has worked on the Public Finance team at the...
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Podcast response: What makes teachers (or Jeremy Lin) great?
Lindsay Whorton is a doctoral student studying teachers and education in the Comparative Social Policy program at Oxford University. She has previously worked for the education division of the...
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Endangering Prosperity: Education, Economic Growth, and the Failings of...
Endangering Prosperity: Education, Economic Growth, and the Failings of Modern American Schooling Guest Bio: Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of...
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To America’s school boards, What if I could you offer you a reliable path to: Improve educational results Improve student, teacher, and staff morale Improve student, teacher, and staff health Create...
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In her earlier post, Lindsay Whorton laments education researchers’ failure to do little more than affirm the obvious: teachers matter. Students in great teachers’ classrooms consistently land in the...
View ArticleEducational Resolution
Conflict is a daily ritual for nearly any K-12 student, ranging from minor playground squabbles to vicious bullying. Schools often write policies and make decisions that suppress conflict because they...
View ArticleSpeak Friend
Language understanding is a critical aspect of modern society. The ability to speak and write critically has become increasingly important as the economy shifts from manual skill jobs to the service...
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In 2014, a worker making the national average minimum wage would have to work full time for 49 weeks to afford the average in-state tuition and fees at a public university. In a year, that leaves only...
View ArticleSouth Asia’s Youth Demographics
Part one of a series on youth demographics in South Asia. Population growth and demographic trends play a key role for the economic and geopolitical status of nation-states. In South Asia, the growth...
View ArticleSouth Asia’s Youth Demographics: The Way Forward for Policy and Development...
Part three of a series on youth demographics in South Asia. It is clear that South Asia faces mounting challenges in realizing its potential demographic dividend in the coming decades. India and...
View ArticleThe Politics of First Place
Iceland takes first place in the Global Peace Index and the Global Gender Gap rankings, and has ninety-five percent of its power supplied by renewable energy. Sweden provides paid paternity leave to...
View ArticleInvesting in Preventive Medicine
The logic of preventive medicine is tangible: Spend a little on prevention now to reduce the later risk of coming down with a serious illness whose treatment is much more costly. That logic becomes...
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Creative Education
“It is time for Asia to transition from a perspiration economy to an inspiration economy,” executive director Jisung Park stated in his opening to the K.E.Y. Platform 2015: Education in Sweden breakout...
View ArticleUnderstanding Climate-Induced Migration
Migration has been long discussed as an implication of climate change. Climate-induced migration has the potential to affect (as well as be affected by) livelihoods, security, and development....
View ArticleScientific Models
Editor’s Note: S&S is collaborating with the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP) to bring academic research findings to a broader audience. Writers at S&S are producing short...
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Cooking up a storm
Most Americans only cook over a fire on camping trips. For the less adventurous American, there are roasted marshmallows over backyard bonfires. And as for charcoal, that’s reserved for July 4th, when...
View ArticleFood Access for New York City’s Poorest: Farmer’s Market
The South Bronx is part of one of the poorest congressional districts in the entire United States. Ninety percent of Bronx County is non-white, and thirty percent of the residents living in this...
View ArticleClimate and Security with Jason Bordoff
Climate and Security with Jason Bordoff Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia, shares his insights...
View ArticleCarbon Pledges
If Coca-Cola, Apple, and Facebook promised to take a stand on climate change, would you believe them? Would their commitments matter? President Obama thinks so. On October 19, 81 major U.S. companies,...
View ArticleDon’t Siesta on Sustainability: How Renewables Can Reinvigorate the Dominican...
Never before has the opportunity to go green in the energy sector been as appealing and accessible as in the Caribbean. This four-part blog series documents the paradigm shift currently under way in...
View Article“Give Me Light, Give Me Life”: How Renewables Are Rekindling Hope in Haiti...
Never before has the opportunity to go green in the energy sector been as appealing and accessible as in the Caribbean. This four-part blog series documents the paradigm shift currently under way in...
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A Justified Juncture: How Renewables Are Redefining Jamaican Energy Economics...
Never before has the opportunity to go green in the energy sector been as appealing and accessible as in the Caribbean. This four-part blog series documents the paradigm shift currently under way in...
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Beyond the Clean Power Plan
Earlier this summer, President Obama released the final version of his Clean Power Plan. As states challenge and defend its legality, stakeholders continue to argue the benefits, costs, and the best...
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Data Exclusivity: What is it and why does it matter?
Over the past year, ‘data exclusivity’ has become a popular catch-phrase in discussion of the contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Data exclusivity for biologic medicines is a relatively new...
View ArticleCriticism at COP
In December, delegates and diplomats from over 150 countries met in Paris at the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) and adopted an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The...
View ArticleWeighty Water
Imagine a plastic cup floating vertically in a bathtub. If empty, the cup would fall to one side, fill with bathwater, and sink. The same, unfortunately, is true for an empty cargo ship. This is why...
View ArticleArt as ‘Slow Activism’
Do you remember the last time you were truly moved by a piece of art? It may have been a photograph, a painting, a song, an installation, or even a theatrical production. Chances are you tried to...
View ArticleOut of Sight, Out of Mind
The Porter Ranch methane gas leak is emerging from an ‘out-of-sight, out-of-mind’ situation to more common knowledge, with growing governmental, media, and social focus on this continuing manmade...
View ArticleThe Value of Green Building Certifications
The past decade has seen a considerable increase of environmental building certifications across the world, with assessment methods like BREEAM becoming increasingly popular not only in the UK, but on...
View ArticleMitigating and Adapting to Climate Change
As the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of Parties(COP21) in Paris concluded, diplomats and technocrats created— and are expected to sign in April 2016 —a binding...
View ArticleWorkforce Education
In 2014, a worker making the national average minimum wage would have to work full time for 49 weeks to afford the average in-state tuition and fees at a public university. In a year, that leaves only...
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Teaching Climate Consensus
The expert scientific community is near unanimous: Climate change is occurring and human action is driving this change. To wit: “Over 97 percent of climate scientists have independently concluded...
View ArticleEducation’s Overlooked Purpose
In her earlier post, Lindsay Whorton laments education researchers’ failure to do little more than affirm the obvious: teachers matter. Students in great teachers’ classrooms consistently land in the...
View ArticleS&S in Seoul: Take Three
This week a group from S&S took a break from Cambridge, Massachusetts and flew to Seoul, South Korea. The primary purpose of the trip, was to attend the 2016 K.E.Y. Platform at the Conrad Hotel...
View ArticleCampaigning for a Woman UN Secretary-General: A Conversation With Shazia Rafi
Shazia Rafi is a board member of The Campaign to Elect a Woman UN Secretary-General, a group of women from academia and civil society working to ensure that Ban Ki-moon’s replacement at the end of 2016...
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Of Genes and Vacuums [Part I]
Early last year, at the University of California San Diego (UCSD), noticeably pale yellow fruit flies darted around their plastic homes inside of a genetics laboratory. These were no ordinary flies:...
View ArticleThe Challenges of Redistribution
Inequality is a primal threat to sustainability. For evidence of this, one can look to politics: the notion that a shrinking middle class threatens American progress is central to presidential...
View ArticleS&S Expanding Access to Knowledge
As part of our on-going efforts to close the knowledge-practice divide, we’re launching a new S&S working paper series. One of the biggest obstacles to the more rapid spread of academic knowledge...
View ArticleFossil Fuel Divestment on Campuses Today
Deviating From Divest The fossil fuel divestment movement has such strong support in campus settings that it is easy to forget about the viability of arguments against divesting. Student-led,...
View ArticleIDJ articles re-published on Harvard University’s Sense & Sustainability...
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the International Development Journal, an online journal offering a platform to engage in debate and discussions on global policies and current affairs....
View ArticleNew York State colleges and universities encouraged to become cleaner and...
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the International Development Journal, an online journal offering a platform to engage in debate and discussions on global policies and current affairs....
View ArticleSearching for Jobs in the Social Sector: Six Tips for Students
Editor’s note: This piece by S&S Board Member Ratna Gill was originally posted on the Living Cities blog in April 2017. In the last blog post of this series, we discussed dynamics of the social...
View ArticleAn Interview with David Foster
Aroop Mukharji interviews Professor David Foster, an ecologist at Harvard and director of the Harvard Forest, about the New England landscape and the role of academic institutions in conservation....
View ArticleA Careers Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams
Writer, environmentalist, and activist Terry Tempest Williams shares advice for budding conservationists. Williams also discusses her college experience, career path, interdisciplinary interests, and...
View ArticleApply for the 2020 Young Global Changers Program
The Global Solutions Initiative is now accepting applications for their 2020 Young Global Changers (YGCs) program which “brings together young people from around the world who are working towards a...
View ArticleBlanket Statements, Brick and Mortar of ESG Integration
Standardized Rebellion? Although we arguably live in the world that finally encourages us to be misfits, the original rebels of finance and investing industry – ESG Investors – are increasingly looking...
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