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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. Creating pathways for educating for economic democracy requires more than curriculum and content. Their reflections reinforced the value of what I call coherence, or integrated, learning.

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Can Labor Save Higher Education as a Public Good?

NonProfit Quarterly

They include a spate of police actions on campuses , anti-DEI and anti-tenure legislation, academic freedom lawsuits , weaponization of accreditation , and political tests for everything from curriculum to top institutional leadership. Colleges and universities depend critically on the labor power of all who work in them.

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Mapping the Landscape of AI-Powered Nonprofits

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Learning Equality is a global education nonprofit that aligns large libraries of education content to a given country’s curriculum standards. What makes AI-powered nonprofits’ contributions in this category unique is that their products are designed for extremely specific audiences who may otherwise be overlooked.

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Doing More About Less: A Targeted Approach to Workforce Readiness

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Large class sizes, inadequate teaching and learning materials, and insufficient teacher training all present roadblocks to innovation. Changes encompassed teaching and learning materials, in-service teacher training to support professional development, assessment practices of student work, school leadership, and school inspection.

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Leveraging AI in Social Work: A Pathway to Empowering Vulnerable Populations

NonProfit Leadership Alliance

However, social workers and educators can use AI-powered emotion recognition software to gain valuable insights into a child’s emotional state and adjust their teaching approach accordingly. Neurodivergent children often struggle with social interactions, communication, and emotional regulation, hindering their learning and development.

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Can Universities Build Community? A Conference Explores Possible Paths

NonProfit Quarterly

Universities, as Baldwin has detailed , turn their research into lucrative commercial goods and patents in a range of fields, from the pharmaceutical industries and software products to health services and military defense weaponry.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

While nearly all of the volunteer managers we talked with were eager to get back to in-person work, many also recognized that the pandemic drove innovations in technology that helped them engage their volunteers in productive and exciting new ways. That was the silver lining.