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.
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Deliberation should supplant debate as the ideal that universities adopt for addressing the most pressing political and social issues.
American education should embrace apprenticeship programs to expand equality of opportunity for young people.
Unequal power relations between researchers from the Global North and South undermine their joint pursuit of knowledge.
Scientific reasoning and information prove effective in defusing conspiracy beliefs.
The structures that participants in a collaboration create to work together are critical to its success.
Accusations that protest movements are receiving foreign support are effective at reducing their public appeal.
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.
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.
