Finds Positive Correlation Between Employment Rates and Key Measures of Opportunity Opportunity Nation’s latest report, Retail’s Opportunity: Exploring the Industry’s Impact on People and Places uses data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Opportunity Nation’s Opportunity Index, among other sources, to analyze the industry’s impact...
Build healthy habits, even though the food system doesn’t want you to—with Foodstand. A poor diet is the leading contributor to death in the United States[1]—higher than cigarettes, drugs, and alcohol combined. More than a third of adults are obese[2], putting them at a higher risk...
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Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016 This report outlines the work led by Hope Street Group’s Kentucky State Teacher Fellows in the Spring semester of Year 3 of the program. This work, including surveys and in person focus groups, resulted in the engagement of thousands of teachers across...
This past March at an education conference, I asked a panel on multiculturalism and diversity about best practices to increase the multicultural teachings for my students, given their limited exposure to diversity in the school. The overwhelming response of “put your rich white kids on...
Wednesday, July 20th, 2016 This week, a cross-state coalition of Hope Street Group Teacher Fellows will join 11 other teams in Chicago as finalists of the Learning Forward and the National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future’s Agents for Learning Challenge. The challenge, which called upon educator teams across the country to...