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Innovations in school models and how parents can be empowered have helped to improve schools and results for students over the past decade. We will continue to support efforts that promise to produce new innovations that will spur further improvements.
The foundation is particularly interested in supporting:
- Novel school models, including those that have new approaches to career and technical education
- Citywide enrollment models that include both traditional and public charter schools
- New ways — beyond test scores — to advance long-term success, including understanding noncognitive attributes
We will invest in innovative projects that meet the following criteria:
It solves a problem:
The project addresses a significant barrier to student success and/or access to high-quality schools.
It applies the foundation’s theory of change:
The project enhances student access to a high-quality education and educational opportunity.
There’s potential for a breakthrough:
The proposed intervention, if implemented effectively, has the potential to produce significant results for students.
The idea is transferable:
Projects should be replicable in different circumstances and locales.
Its success can be tested objectively:
The project’s results will be discrete and measurable.
Key grantees include:
- The Character Lab
- NewSchools Venture Fund
- 4.0 Schools
- EdNavigator
- MDRC
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This paper identifies three types of welfare regimes in Africa, based on the insight that tax and expenditure regimes are closely associated. Using cluster analysis, the author highlights historical legacies in current welfare policies, demonstrating that welfare regimes in Africa have been strongly determined by the ways in which different countries were incorporated into the colonial economy. The author finds that many of the new social welfare reforms are taking place in what he refers to as labour reserve economies, and are generally internally rather than aid-driven. He stresses the importance of thinking of social expenditure in relationship to domestic resource mobilization, and finds that the focus on aid and social expenditure has tended to obscure this important aspect of welfare regimes in Africa.
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