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Fall 2024

Volume 22, Number 4

Read about how a bipartisan 20-year campaign boosted US high school graduation rates, how US public education can serve democracy by preparing students to become better citizens, how climate alliances can help business leaders push their industries to adopt more ambitious sustainability goals, how the world’s first privately led pay-for-success experiment helped boost South Korea’s social sector, and other topics in the Fall 2024 issue of Stanford Social Innovation Review. Plus: Two special supplements from PolicyLink (A Revolution of the Soul) and the Institute of Philanthropy (The Best of SSIR: Impactful Philanthropy in the Real World).

Features

Education

Graduation Nation

By Bob Balfanz & John Bridgeland 3

A 20-year campaign to address America’s high school dropout crisis produced unprecedented gains in graduation rates nationwide. Can lessons from this campaign help the nation cross this elusive threshold and inspire action on other social issues? I Open access to this article is made possible by Future Pathways/OAP, a sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

Education

A Democratic Vision for Public Schools

By Kent McGuire & Matt Wilka 1

Neoliberalism has set the agenda for US public education for decades, championing values of individual choice, standards, and competition—with disappointing results. Amid rising civic discord, is there a different vision for public education that would better prepare young people to become citizens and improve our democratic health? I Open access to this article is made possible by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Collaboration

The Case for Climate Alliances

By Matteo Gasparini, Knut Haanaes, Emily Tedards & Peter Tufano

Business leaders are under pressure to address the climate crisis, but they can’t do so alone. Climate alliances can help leaders and firms be more ambitious, responsible, and effective in driving the systems change necessary to save the planet.

What’s Next

Education

Closing the Racial Diversity Gap in Medicine

By Allison Torres Burtka

The Funding the Future Physicians Initiative aims to diversify the medical profession by preparing underrepresented students for medical school.

Health

Plant-Based Solutions to Period Poverty

By Marianne Dhenin

A global consortium is creating opportunities for local organizations to manufacture plant-based menstrual pads.

Health

AI Medical Diagnostics

By Valentine Benjamin

minoHealth AI Labs seeks to streamline diagnostic imaging to accelerate health-care treatment and improve health outcomes in Africa.

Security

Proactive Mapping to Manage Disaster

By Andrew Mambondiyani

The ESA Hub is spearheading an anticipatory-response model of disaster management in Zimbabwe to protect people from climate-related destruction.

Field Report

Human Rights

Changing the Narrative on Palestine

By Marianne Dhenin

The nonprofit Just Vision uses the power of storytelling to foster understanding and push back against Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian biases.

Education

Crowdfunding Education

By Victoria Goldiee

Social enterprise ScholarX unlocks learning opportunities for Nigerian students of all ages to help them realize their full potential.

Philanthropy & Funding

Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration

By David Shipley

Children Heard and Seen counsels young people with incarcerated parents, helping them to heal from trauma and plot a different course.

Case Study

Measurement & Evaluation

Korea’s Experiment With Pay-for-Success

By Hyun Shin, Gayoung Imm, Myung Eun Jeong, Hyun-Joong Kim & Haeun Kim

The Social Progress Credits program was the world’s first privately led pay-for-success experiment. Its implementation has boosted the South Korean impact ecosystem and provides valuable lessons about the measurement and incentivization of social value.

Viewpoint

Social Services

Power Sharing to End Homelessness

By Jennifer Loving & Ben Spero

We’re leading a collective-impact effort to prevent homelessness in Silicon Valley. Our public-private partnership offers a profound model for systems change. | Open access to this article is made possible by Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Education

More Deliberation, Not Debate

By Jeffrey Kennedy & Simon Pek

Deliberation should supplant debate as the ideal that universities adopt for addressing the most pressing political and social issues.

Education

The End of ‘College for All’

By Bruno V. Manno

American education should embrace apprenticeship programs to expand equality of opportunity for young people.

Nonprofits & NGOs

Decolonize Civil Society Research

By Christopher L. Pallas, Anna Domaradzka, Cristina M. Balboa, Elizabeth Bloodgood, Dipendra KC, Emmanual Kumi & Patricia Mendonça

Unequal power relations between researchers from the Global North and South undermine their joint pursuit of knowledge.

Research

Education

The Psychology of Conspiracy Thinking

By Daniela Blei

Scientific reasoning and information prove effective in defusing conspiracy beliefs.

Collaboration

The Importance of Scaffolding

By Daniela Blei

The structures that participants in a collaboration create to work together are critical to its success.

Civic Engagement

The Foreign Stain on Protests

By Chana R. Schoenberger

Accusations that protest movements are receiving foreign support are effective at reducing their public appeal.

Business

Civic Engagement at Work

By Chana R. Schoenberger

A study of worker-owned cooperatives demonstrates how people see their civic engagement, whether in the workplace or out in the world, as one and the same activity.

Book Reviews

Review

Technology

The Problem With AI Is Us

Reviewed By Jasmine McNealy

AI does not herald the end of humanity—or it doesn’t have to, philosopher Shannon Vallor argues in The AI Mirror, if we decide to change its use and design.

Review

Technology

The Great Outsourcing of Government

Reviewed By Liz Scheier

In The Tech Coup, former politician turned AI policy analyst Marietje Schaake warns that governments have ceded too much power to Silicon Valley—to the detriment of the public good.

Editor’s Note

Education

Whither Education Reform?

By David V. Johnson

We can make progress by targeting big problems that are acknowledged across partisan lines and can galvanize supermajority support to solve them.

SSIR Online

Nonprofits & NGOs

SSIR Online, Fall 2024 Issue

By SSIR Editors

A collection of standout pieces published online about scaling nonprofits, measuring the impact of training, and the challenge of impact investing.

Last Look

Human Rights

The Flame of Solidarity

By Marcie Bianco

The historic relay tradition had a little help from an artist within the SSIR community.

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