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Education
2011 Roundtable at Stanford: Education Nation 2.0
What could you do for an hour in the first year of college that would improve minority students' grades over the next three years, reduce the racial achievement gap by half and, years later, make students happier and healthier? The answer, Stanford psychologists suggest, involves an exercise to help make students feel confident they belong in college.
"If you don't have a high school education in America, you are chained to limited options," Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., told the Goldman Sachs/Stanford University Global Education Conference.
Research Resources
![[photo - diversity]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Hands-Raised.jpg "[photo - diversity]")
Research shows that modest school interventions can help raise grades and improve health and happiness.
![[photo - Professor Jo Boaler]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/boaler_jo_0.jpg "[photo - Professor Jo Boaler]")
Studies have shown that the root of the math gender gap is not differences in innate skills, but settings that undermine girls' confidence. In her research, School of Education Professor Jo Boaler has found more equitable ways to teach math.
Students who used the "Reading Like a Historian" curriculum outperformed their peers in traditional history classrooms, study finds.
![[photo - Salman Khan]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Khan-Academy.jpg "[photo - Salman Khan]")
YouTube tutor Salman Khan tells how his commitment to help a cousin with a difficult math lesson led not just to a successful, free, online tutoring service but to an organization whose educational mission attracts highly-productive workers without exorbitant pay packages.
In trying to improve American public schools, educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.
A new Facebook app helps incoming freshmen connect—but within the closed community of their college.
The National Math and Science Initiative aims to avert the crisis in secondary school education by replicating proven programs.
mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices, such as attending school or seeking prenatal care.
Disseminating insights and know-how across any organization is critical to improving performance, but nonprofits struggle to implement organizational learning and make it a priority. A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.
As schools and colleges increase their investment in virtual classrooms, data analysis, and other cutting-edge tools to help students learn, educators are replacing "chalk talk" with technology and entering a new era agreed speakers at the Goldman Sachs/Stanford University Education Conference.
Research shows that modest school interventions can help raise grades and improve health and happiness.
Studies have shown that the root of the math gender gap is not differences in innate skills, but settings that undermine girls' confidence. In her research, School of Education Professor Jo Boaler has found more equitable ways to teach math.
Students who used the "Reading Like a Historian" curriculum outperformed their peers in traditional history classrooms, study finds.
YouTube tutor Salman Khan tells how his commitment to help a cousin with a difficult math lesson led not just to a successful, free, online tutoring service but to an organization whose educational mission attracts highly-productive workers without exorbitant pay packages.
As schools and colleges increase their investment in virtual classrooms, data analysis, and other cutting-edge tools to help students learn, educators are replacing "chalk talk" with technology and entering a new era agreed speakers at the Goldman Sachs/Stanford University Education Conference.
"If you don't have a high school education in America, you are chained to limited options," Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., told the Goldman Sachs/Stanford University Global Education Conference.
Researchers from the Stanford University School of Medicine have demonstrated that a single year of math lessons is associated with unexpectedly big changes in the brain's approach to problem solving and that these changes can be seen in the brain scans of second- and third-graders.
Too often American business and education remain "silos sitting outside of each other, unwilling to recognize, and often casting blame at each other," said James H. Shelton III, MBA/MA '93 and Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education, at a recent Stanford event. Yet, a number of Stanford GSB alumni have taken on that challenge and are using their business acumen to help improve public education.
Calling education "the most important problem that we have to solve in this country," an official of the U.S. Department of Education warned that other nations are doing a better job than the United States of educating their young people.
Public education that prepares a workforce for tomorrow's needs is the cause that most challenges her, said Penny Pritzker, JD/MBA '84, the 2011 recipient of the business school's Arbuckle Award.
In trying to improve American public schools, educators, policymakers, and philanthropists are overselling the role of the highly skilled individual teacher and undervaluing the benefits that come from teacher collaborations.
A new Facebook app helps incoming freshmen connect—but within the closed community of their college.
The National Math and Science Initiative aims to avert the crisis in secondary school education by replicating proven programs.
mPowering has created an app that awards goods and services to individuals facing extreme poverty when they make beneficial choices, such as attending school or seeking prenatal care.
Disseminating insights and know-how across any organization is critical to improving performance, but nonprofits struggle to implement organizational learning and make it a priority. A recent study found three common barriers to knowledge sharing across nonprofits and their networks, as well as ways and means to overcome them.
MORE THAN GOOD INTENTIONS: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty by Dean Karlan & Jacob Appel
Foundations often undermine their own efforts by micromanaging how social problems are solved. Two insiders explore why foundations have developed this way and what grant makers can do to foster high impact strategies.
Private foundations are being idealized as neutral, efficient, and effective—but no one is actually monitoring their impact.
20UNDER40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century Edited by Edward P. Clapp
Could electronic reading devices catalyze a new culture of global literacy? That's the idea behind Worldreader.org, a start-up nonprofit with world-changing aspirations.
High school kids restore faith in the next generation of social change.
The opportunity has come to reframe, rethink, re-set, and re-build some of the things we take most for granted.
A new study says arts education should be expanded.
Offshoring of jobs will be disruptive, but can be managed.
Should private money be given to schools?
What is the role of test scores in driving improvement in the education system?
Panelists talk about what their organizations are doing to support teachers, and the most successful efforts and investments aimed at recruiting, strengthening, and retaining our teacher corps.
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Experts discuss why K-12 schools in the United States are failing, and provide some options, from teacher education to integrating technology, that can be implemented to make things better.
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![[photo - Chris Bradford]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Bradford.jpg "[photo - image - Chris Bradford]")
How can one social enterprise help transform Africa into a peaceful and prosperous continent? By developing and supporting its future leaders.
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What can the for-profit market bring to K-12 education reform, and how can philanthropy help such efforts? Gisèle Huff, executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation, discusses the foundation's investment strategy.
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Charles Best talks about how he started DonorsChoose, an online charity that allows anyone to buy classroom supplies for public school teachers, and what some of its challenges have been along the way.
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Good education should be a right, not a privilege. So says Piyush Mangukiya, founder of EducateNCare.com, an innovative online tutoring program for students. In this audio interview, Mangukiya describes how this unique enterprise is bettering the lives of children around the world through quality education and assistance.
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![[photo - Picture: Chamberlain]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/pic-%20Chamberlain.jpg "[photo - Picture: Chamberlain]")
Sara Chamberlain, Head of Interactive for BBC World Trust, discusses her innovatation which allows the people of Bangladesh to call a hotline to receive a short English lesson from an automated system.
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![[photo - Picture: Mic]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Pic-%20Mic_8.jpg "[photo - Picture: Mic]")
A panel of educational reformers provide insight on the necessity of political savvy, discussing the need for educational leaders to devote energy and resources to political action and advocacy, as well as the operational steps of reform.
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![[photo - Picture: Mic]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Pic-%20Mic_7.jpg "[photo - Picture: Mic]")
A panel of educational entrepreneurs discusses the ideas, outcomes, and possibilities that result from today's technology-enabled approach that is changing the way students learn.
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![[photo - Picture: Mic]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/podcast_img/Pic-%20Mic_6.jpg "[photo - Picture: Mic]")
Panelists involved in three new films about education reform speak on how these powerful productions can inspire action and advocacy from the broader audience.
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![[Video-Remedying Group Disparities in School Achievement]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/oLzwODpG7m4/0.jpg "[Video-Remedying Group Disparities in School Achievement]")
Inequalities between socially marginalized and non-marginalized groups have led to poorer school and health outcomes for African Americans, Latino Americans, and other non-Asian ethnic minorities. Although many structural factors contribute to these inequalities, this study examines one psychological factor: concern about social belonging — a sense of having positive relationships with others.
![[Video-Rethinking Learning with Salman Khan]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/W-vj6BhQa5w/0.jpg "[Video-Rethinking Learning with Salman Khan]")
The Mastery in Communication Initiative and the Stanford GSB Education Club hosted Salman Khan, who spoke about the history and evolution of the Khan Academy and how it is reshaping the way people learn today.
![[Video-2011 Roundtable at Stanford: Education Nation 2.0]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/uMDTuw0__IM/0.jpg "[Video-2011 Roundtable at Stanford: Education Nation 2.0]")
Redefining K-12 education in America: how can we improve our troubled school system and provide a better future for our nation's greatest resource, our kids?
![[Video-Global Education Conference]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/FrNhJtL-4tM/0.jpg "[Video-Global Education Conference]")
Business and technological innovations are pushing education everywhere to the brink of great change. What is the potential for global education today?
![[Video-Reengineering Aid: Sir Richard Feachem ]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/C4mO3uOr0_U/0.jpg "[Video-Reengineering Aid: Sir Richard Feachem ]")
What impact has aid had on health in developing countries? Has it had an impact?
![[Video-GSB Black Business Student Association Award Winner Jim Shelton]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/YyJeVSGbbts/0.jpg "[Video-GSB Black Business Student Association Award Winner Jim Shelton]")
James H. Shelton of the Office of Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education won the prestigious Tapesty Award for 2011.
![[Video-2011 Business of Education Symposium]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/gMFdk7YCuZ8/0.jpg "[Video-2011 Business of Education Symposium]")
"Business has to be about improving education."
![[Video-Public Management Program Oral History Panel]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/YdOcWj9XE8s/0.jpg "[Video-Public Management Program Oral History Panel]")
In response to the historical events of the late 60's and the growing societal demands on business, the Stanford Graduate School of Business developed a pioneering vision for educating leaders who understand the world they live in and know to work across silos to accomodate the needs of both business and society. The founders of the Public Management Program share their motivations for creating the first program of the sort at a business school and why it is more relevant than ever today.
![[Video-Design for the Ripple Effect: How a Small Act Leads to Big Change]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/x23KpziOLZ4/0.jpg "[Video-Design for the Ripple Effect: How a Small Act Leads to Big Change]")
How can we design for the ripple effect so that small acts of goodness trigger big ones?
![[Video-We Don't Know What Makes Us Happy (But We Think We Do) ]](http://img.youtube.com/vi/oXEwmR8MNas/0.jpg "[Video-We Don't Know What Makes Us Happy (But We Think We Do) ]")
What makes us happy? Turns out, the ten dollars to a nonprofit is often more meaningful than the graduate degree.
Inequalities between socially marginalized and non-marginalized groups have led to poorer school and health outcomes for African Americans, Latino Americans, and other non-Asian ethnic minorities. Although many structural factors contribute to these inequalities, this study examines one psychological factor: concern about social belonging — a sense of having positive relationships with others.
The Mastery in Communication Initiative and the Stanford GSB Education Club hosted Salman Khan, who spoke about the history and evolution of the Khan Academy and how it is reshaping the way people learn today.
Redefining K-12 education in America: how can we improve our troubled school system and provide a better future for our nation's greatest resource, our kids?
Panelists talk about what their organizations are doing to support teachers, and the most successful efforts and investments aimed at recruiting, strengthening, and retaining our teacher corps.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Experts discuss why K-12 schools in the United States are failing, and provide some options, from teacher education to integrating technology, that can be implemented to make things better.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
How can one social enterprise help transform Africa into a peaceful and prosperous continent? By developing and supporting its future leaders.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
What can the for-profit market bring to K-12 education reform, and how can philanthropy help such efforts? Gisèle Huff, executive director of the Jaquelin Hume Foundation, discusses the foundation's investment strategy.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
Business and technological innovations are pushing education everywhere to the brink of great change. What is the potential for global education today?
Charles Best talks about how he started DonorsChoose, an online charity that allows anyone to buy classroom supplies for public school teachers, and what some of its challenges have been along the way.
You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialize correctly.
What impact has aid had on health in developing countries? Has it had an impact?
Green Dot is charter management organization that is bringing high-performance to Los Angeles, an area traditionally plagued by dismal graduating case. This case explores Green Dots the advantages and disadvantages of transformative strategy to reach a 'tipping point' in Los Angeles' educational community.
![[photo - James A. Phills]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/phills-james-a_21.jpg "[photo - James A. Phills]")
Teach for America, a nonprofit that places talented college graduates in teaching positions in under-resourced areas, needed to expand its placements in the San Francisco Bay Area. Case A details the challenges of TFA’s attempt to expand into the San Francisco Unified School District.
![[photo - James A. Phills]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/phills-james-a_22.jpg "[photo - James A. Phills]")
Teach for America, a nonprofit that places talented college graduates in teaching positions in under-resourced areas, needed to expand its placements in the San Francisco Bay Area. Case B details the outcome of TFA’s attempt to expand into the San Francisco Unified School District.
![[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/burgelman-robert-a_3.jpg "[photo - Robert A. Burgelman]")
The Grove Foundation's Grove Scholars Program promotes access to vocational education and training. Key foundation personnel consider how well they have been performing toward their mission.
![[photo - David P. Baron]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/baron-david-p_5.jpg "[photo - David P. Baron]")
The director of a successful school in Botswana was planning her retirement. How could she institutionalize processes she had personally overseen that had led to the school's excellence?
![[photo - Laura K. Arrillaga]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/arrillaga-laura-kathryne.jpg "[photo - Laura K. Arrillaga]")
Planned Parenthood is looking for funding to assess the Sand Hill Foundation’s Teen Success Program for replication. Those involved in the program hope to more constructively engage stakeholders in the evaluation process, monitor the program’s impact, and take action on evaluation results.
![[photo - James A. Phills]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/phills-james-a_4.jpg "[photo - James A. Phills]")
San Diego City Schools' leaders are faced with a choice: Should they continue reform efforts begun four years earlier, knowing that results so far have been mixed? Or should they modify their reform strategy?
![[photo - David W. Brady]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/brady-david-w_0.jpg "[photo - David W. Brady]")
An innovative public school’s foundation considers new strategic directions in the wake of the school’s conversion to an independent charter. Will it become an advocacy organization, a think tank, an educational consultant—or choose another path?
![[photo - William F. Meehan III]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/meehan-william-f_3.jpg "[photo - William F. Meehan III]")
This case describes the formation, management, and challenges of a prep school founded in a depressed urban community. It focuses on fundraising, performance measurement, faculty recruiting, growth, and managing culture.
![[photo - William F. Meehan III]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/meehan-william-f_2.jpg "[photo - William F. Meehan III]")
The Quest Scholars Program faces strategic growth issues. Can the founders refine their mission, replicate their program, and support a financially responsible and sustainable organization?
Green Dot is charter management organization that is bringing high-performance to Los Angeles, an area traditionally plagued by dismal graduating case. This case explores Green Dots the advantages and disadvantages of transformative strategy to reach a 'tipping point' in Los Angeles' educational community.
Teach for America, a nonprofit that places talented college graduates in teaching positions in under-resourced areas, needed to expand its placements in the San Francisco Bay Area. Case A details the challenges of TFA’s attempt to expand into the San Francisco Unified School District.
Teach for America, a nonprofit that places talented college graduates in teaching positions in under-resourced areas, needed to expand its placements in the San Francisco Bay Area. Case B details the outcome of TFA’s attempt to expand into the San Francisco Unified School District.
The Grove Foundation's Grove Scholars Program promotes access to vocational education and training. Key foundation personnel consider how well they have been performing toward their mission.
The director of a successful school in Botswana was planning her retirement. How could she institutionalize processes she had personally overseen that had led to the school's excellence?
Planned Parenthood is looking for funding to assess the Sand Hill Foundation’s Teen Success Program for replication. Those involved in the program hope to more constructively engage stakeholders in the evaluation process, monitor the program’s impact, and take action on evaluation results.
San Diego City Schools' leaders are faced with a choice: Should they continue reform efforts begun four years earlier, knowing that results so far have been mixed? Or should they modify their reform strategy?
An innovative public school’s foundation considers new strategic directions in the wake of the school’s conversion to an independent charter. Will it become an advocacy organization, a think tank, an educational consultant—or choose another path?
This case describes the formation, management, and challenges of a prep school founded in a depressed urban community. It focuses on fundraising, performance measurement, faculty recruiting, growth, and managing culture.
The Quest Scholars Program faces strategic growth issues. Can the founders refine their mission, replicate their program, and support a financially responsible and sustainable organization?
What could you do for an hour in the first year of college that would improve minority students' grades over the next three years, reduce the racial achievement gap by half and, years later, make students happier and healthier? The answer, Stanford psychologists suggest, involves an exercise to help make students feel confident they belong in college.
![[photo - Geoffrey Cohen]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/cohen-geoffrey-lawrence.jpg "[photo - Geoffrey Cohen]")
Graduate School of Business Professor Geoffrey Cohen and co-authors at the University of Colorado at Boulder present research on the effectiveness of values affirmation in reducing the gender achievement gap. Their findings suggest a psychological intervention may be a useful way to address the gender gap in science performance.
![[photo - Geoffrey Cohen]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/cohen-geoffrey-lawrence_0.jpg "[photo - Geoffrey Cohen]")
Graduate School of Business Professor Geoffrey Cohen and co-authors used the dispute over the HPV vaccine to test the cultural cognition thesis, which holds that people evaluate risk based on their contested beliefs about the good society. They found that disagreement about the risks of the vaccine was generated through two principal means, biased assimilation and the credibility heuristic.
It is unclear if vouchers increase educational productivity or are purely redistributive, benefiting recipients by giving them access to more desirable peers at others' expense.
This paper examines if perceptions of test legitimacy increase when racial differences on test performance match the racial status quo or when a perceiver's in-group performs better than expected, relative to other groups.
Research indicates that, among women and ethnic minorities, perceived inequality reduces the association between self-esteem and academic outcomes.
![[photo - Jeffrey Pfeffer]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/pfeffer-jeffrey%5B2%5D.jpg "[photo - Jeffrey Pfeffer]")
The author critiques the decline of pragmatism and fact-based experimentation in U.S. education. He argues that while business education still has its roots in pragmatism, it has veered into ideology and intellectual dogma instead of fact-based methods.
![[photo - Brian S. Lowery]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/lowery-brian_2.jpg "[photo - Brian S. Lowery]")
This research examines the temporal range of subliminal priming effects on complex behavior.
![[photo - Kirst Michael]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/finance_kirst_1.jpg "[photo - Kirst Michael]")
Students heading for the nation’s community colleges are less likely to be prepared for the demands of college than their classmates heading for schools with competitive admissions standards, says education professor Michael Kirst. Lack of preparation means a higher dropout rate and poses a real threat to the future qualifications of the U.S. labor force.
![[photo - Susanna Loeb]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/Susanna_Loeb_0.jpg "[photo - Susanna Loeb]")
New teachers overwhelmingly want to teach in school districts near where they grew up, say researchers, thus creating a “cycle of poverty” for some urban schools where few graduates go on to earn teaching degrees. It’s not just that teachers prefer teaching higher-performing kids, it’s that they want a school like the one they attended, says Susanna Loeb, associate professor in the Stanford School of Education. (June 2005)
Students learn about the relationship between political analysis and policy formulation in education. The course focuses on alternative models of the political process, the nature of interest groups, political strategies, community power, the external environment of organizations, and the implementation of policy.
This course explores topics such as the value of college and graduate degrees and the utilization of highly educated graduates. It also looks at issues such as faculty labor markets, careers, and workload; costs, pricing, and discounting of education; merit aid; access to higher education; sponsored research; academic medical centers; and technology and productivity.
Monte Rosen discusses founding The Essential Learning Group, a Shanghai-based, self-funded social venture that provides special education services to expats and Chinese children with autism.
Jo Ivester shares how the interactions and impact she has had as a professor complete the beautiful circle of a family legacy in education.
Math and science have always excited Diego Fonstad, and he hopes that the multimedia tools he is capturing on Zombie-Cat.org will help today’s teachers bring lessons to life.
![[photo - Amy Saxton]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Amy_H_Saxton_0.jpg "[photo - Amy Saxton]")
50% of low-income minority students are not graduating high school on time, and only 10% will graduate from a four-year college by age 26. Amy Saxton, CEO of Summer Search, reflects on how tenacity and emotional intelligence play into life success.
![[photo - Leena Ved]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Leena%20Ved.JPG "[photo - Leena Ved]")
Leena Ved provides high quality educational opportunities for under-served children, and addresses the financing gap in impact investing by supporting early stage companies.
![[photo - Cormac Lynch (MBA '91)]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/cormac2.jpg "[photo - Cormac Lynch (MBA '91)]")
Cormac Lynch is the founder of Camara, a volunteer-based organization that uses technology to deliver education and skill-building tools to disadvantaged communities in Africa and Ireland.
![[photo - Dr. Patricia Einarson]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Dr.%20Einarson%20small.jpg "[photo - Dr. Patricia Einarson]")
With a high-tech background, an MBA, and an M.D., Dr. Patty Einarson has a unique perspective on the intersection of technology, business and medicine. She leverages this knowledge by contributing to math/science education in the public schools, encouraging the kids of today to become future innovators.
![[photo - Chari Ratwatte]](http://csi.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/csi.gsb.stanford.edu/files/imagecache/img75x75/social_innovator_picture/Chari.jpg "[photo - Chari Ratwatte]")
One of the first two Stanford GSB Social Innovation fellows, Chari works to provide economic opportunities to farmers in Sri Lanka.
Dave DeForest-Stalls wants to help kids stay out of gangs. He's providing mentorship and hip ways to keep youth on the straight and narrow.
Mark Cafferty is passionate about empowering individuals to be all they can be. He channels funds to employment and youth service programs.
Research shows that modest school interventions can help raise grades and improve health and happiness.
Inequalities between socially marginalized and non-marginalized groups have led to poorer school and health outcomes for African Americans, Latino Americans, and other non-Asian ethnic minorities. Although many structural factors contribute to these inequalities, this study examines one psychological factor: concern about social belonging — a sense of having positive relationships with others.
Studies have shown that the root of the math gender gap is not differences in innate skills, but settings that undermine girls' confidence. In her research, School of Education Professor Jo Boaler has found more equitable ways to teach math.
Students who used the "Reading Like a Historian" curriculum outperformed their peers in traditional history classrooms, study finds.
YouTube tutor Salman Khan tells how his commitment to help a cousin with a difficult math lesson led not just to a successful, free, online tutoring service but to an organization whose educational mission attracts highly-productive workers without exorbitant pay packages.
The Mastery in Communication Initiative and the Stanford GSB Education Club hosted Salman Khan, who spoke about the history and evolution of the Khan Academy and how it is reshaping the way people learn today.
Math and science have always excited Diego Fonstad, and he hopes that the multimedia tools he is capturing on Zombie-Cat.org will help today’s teachers bring lessons to life.
Jo Ivester shares how the interactions and impact she has had as a professor complete the beautiful circle of a family legacy in education.
Monte Rosen discusses founding The Essential Learning Group, a Shanghai-based, self-funded social venture that provides special education services to expats and Chinese children with autism.
50% of low-income minority students are not graduating high school on time, and only 10% will graduate from a four-year college by age 26. Amy Saxton, CEO of Summer Search, reflects on how tenacity and emotional intelligence play into life success.
