Monthly Blog Archives: June 2012

Unless housing finance companies, developers and builders serving low-income buyers take the time to understand their customers, our nation's nascent – and desperately needed – affordable housing market will fail to take off.

There are a lot of ways to talk about the Shared Learning Collaborative (SLC) and its goals, but at its core it’s about one thing: Making it easier for teachers to deliver personalized instruction in their classrooms with the help of technology. To that end, the SLC is adopting both the Ed-Fi specification and the Common Education Data Standards.

Heroic efforts will never be enough to eradicate the disparities that plague South African education. We need a more comprehensive approach that will transform today’s slim educational odds into a distant memory.

In the effort to promote universal access to sanitation, we can’t get distracted by the relative glamour of a technical design competition to reinvent the toilet. We also need an arsenal of non-technical strategies.

Integration of live and online instruction may enable teachers to address the instructional challenges spurred by a flood of student data. But as we move forward, we need to study blended learning models’ impact in the classroom.

Nearly 89 percent of Latino students recognize that a college education is important for success in life. So why do only half of those students say they plan to get a college degree?

Given the complexities involved, is the effort to link microloans to water and sanitation work worth pursuing? The answer is an unequivocal yes.

As a foundation, we learned through trial and error that building tools was the least of our challenges. We’re now hoping that the sector at large can springboard off those lessons,