As long-time observers of nonprofit organizations, we are used to thinking of organizational management and leadership styles as strictly applying to either clearly corporate, for-profit companies, or to nonprofits. Today those lines are blurring with “next generation nonprofits” and the rise of the social entrepreneurship movement. Nancy Moses does an excellent job here defining next …
Last week President Obama signed in to law the most comprehensive social policy change in decades. In general, American social policy has been one of cautious shrinking and devolution since its height of expansion during New Deal and Great Society programs. This new reform package requires individuals to have health insurance, guarantees access to health …
Late in April I will have the privilege of attending a meeting in Washington, D.C. to discuss how federal policies do and/or should impact civic skill acquisition in young Americans. Civic skills are the necessary abilities to participating in one’s democracy – along with willingness, a must-have component to citizen participation. On his first day …
Today, an expert panel announced its recommendations for common statewide standards in American educational achievement. Forty-eight states participated in writing the Common Core State Standards Initiative. The Initiative recommends common concepts and skills for all students to achieve by grade level. If implemented, these standards will go far to make states’ standardized tests comparable from …
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