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The institute began with XQ: The Super School Project, to identify new ideas to reform schools and improve student performance. [3] [4] The organization was founded in September 2015 by Laurene Powell Jobs and Russlynn Ali. [3] XQ Institute's Board includes Marc Ecko, Yo-Yo Ma, Geoffrey Canada, Jimmy Iovine, and Michael Klein.
Random assignment of subjects into treatment and control groups is the ideal method of attributing change in a sample to an intervention and not to some other effect (including the pre-existing capabilities of students, teachers, or school systems). [4]: 15 However, for a variety of practical reasons, this procedure was not done in Follow Through.
Advocacy evaluation, also called public policy advocacy design, monitoring, and evaluation, evaluates the progress or outcomes of advocacy, such as changes in public policy. Advocacy evaluators seek to understand the extent to which advocacy efforts have contributed to the advancement of a goal or policy.
Previously known as Innovations for Learning, Chapter One is a global education nonprofit organization, dedicated to improving early literacy outcomes for children in under-resourced schools. It is grounded in the belief that learning to read is a basic civil right with the power to transform lives.
An example is an innovation project which involves only staff from the engineering department. It is also possible for communities of innovation to be cross-functional (e.g. involving 2-3 functions). An example is an innovation project which involves staff from two functions, the business department and the environmental science department.
The Project on Indigenous Governance and Development, previously named the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, [1] also known as the Harvard Project, was founded in 1987 at Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University. It administers tribal awards programs as well as provides support for students and conducting research.
Systematic inventive thinking (SIT) is a thinking method developed in Israel in the mid-1990s.Derived from Genrich Altshuller's TRIZ engineering discipline, SIT is a practical approach to creativity, innovation and problem solving, which has become a well known methodology for innovation.
In Singapore, a co-curricular activity (CCA), is a non-academic activity that all students must undertake as part of their education.Introduced by the Ministry of Education (MOE), CCAs are strongly encouraged at the primary and post-secondary level but compulsory at secondary level.