Education-Innovation

Recycled Bottles, Reclaimed Lives: A Shelter Innovation from South Sudan

by By IOM South Sudan 3/06/2025 Medium

“People used to throw these bottles along the roads,” he says. “Now, they’re part of our homes — they’re cooler, stronger, and resistant to termites.”
In South Sudan, where communities face the twin crises of displacement and environmental strain, a powerful question is emerging:
What if plastic waste, once seen only as trash, could help build a safer, more sustainable future?
This year’s World Environment Day calls on us to #BeatPlasticPollution. In Bentiu, a town in South Sudan scarred by years of conflict and flooding, displaced communities are answering that call by turning trash into shelter.

Principles to Inform Drug Pricing, Access and Innovation Policy

by PUBLICCITIZEN 12/11/24

Policymakers have made generational progress in advancing policies to lower prescription drug prices, especially through the passage into law of price negotiations, inflation rebates, and a $2,000 out-of-pocket cap for patients on Medicare. Yet critical work remains to provide relief for both people with Medicare and without, through lower prices for more patients and more medicines, and on a quicker timeline.

Advancing racial justice in our policies, institutions and culture.

by race forward

We work with communities to build the collective power necessary to counter structural racism. Connected and aligned individuals, organizations, and movements standing together to inspire positive change can build a just, multiracial, democratic society.

A Brighter Idea: The Story of Five Regulations that Spurred Innovation

by PUBLICCITIZEN

When federal agencies implement rules for efficiency, worker safety, or public health and welfare, companies need to reformulate their products and services to comply.

Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab

by race forward

Throughout Race Forward’s history, we have explored the significance of the role of arts and culture in movement building and advancing racial equity. With support from the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust, we are pleased to launch our new Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab, which will train 60 New York City arts and cultural organizations to deepen their racial equity work.

Catch Up on the Latest News

by PBS

Journey through the history of art, music, and culture with critically acclaimed documentaries and in-depth storytelling.

Did a Norwegian law inadvertently cut innovation in universities?

by Making Sen$e Editor 6/6/16 PBS NEWS

Editor’s Note: For 31 years now, Paul Solman’s reports on the NewsHour have aimed to make sense of economic news and research for a general audience. Since 2007, our Making Sen$e page has vowed to do the same, turning to leading academics and thinkers in the fields of business and economics to help explain what’s interesting and relevant about their work. That includes reports and interviews with economists affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research.

PBS TEACHERS INNOVATION AWARDS PRESENTED TO 50 EDUCATORS FOR INSPIRING STUDENTS AND TRANSFORMING CLASSROOM LEARNING

by pbs publicity 5/5/10 PBS

ARLINGTON, Va., May 5, 2010- Today, PBS and its member stations celebrated 50 of the nation's most innovative preK-12 educators who are discovering new ways to engage their students and inspire them to achieve. The PBS Teachers Innovation Awards program honors teachers who are transforming classroom learning and providing children with the tools they need to reach their full potential and succeed in the 21st century. All winners will receive instructional technology resources from PBS and its partners and participate in a peer-to-peer network to share best practices using public digital media. The top 10 winners will receive a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard System, a Logitech camera and are invited to the PBS annual membership meeting.

IOM Innovation Facility: Fostering Transformative Solutions

by IOM UN MIGRATION

The IOM Innovation Facility is a dynamic platform that supports novel and transformative initiatives on migration. By offering seed funding, building innovation capacities, and nurturing an innovation ecosystem, it enables the creation and expansion of impactful and innovative projects. The Facility's approach centers on fostering partnerships and collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders, ensuring that innovative ideas can be effectively piloted and scaled to drive system-wide solutions.

Who becomes an inventor? This Arkansas innovation hub is trying to spark a new generation

by Jeffrey Brown 30/5/18 PBS NEWS

At MIT, Chris Jones led efforts to double minority enrollment in graduate programs. Now back home in Arkansas, he's on a mission to reduce barriers for low-income people, women and people of color toward becoming innovators, makers, thinkers and entrepreneurs. Jeffrey Brown reports.

Innovation Law Lab v. Wolf

by ACLU 23/8/21

The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 11 individual asylum seekers and organizational plaintiffs Innovation Law Lab, the Central American Resource Center of Northern California, Centro Legal de la Raza, the University of San Francisco School of Law Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, Al Otro Lado, and the Tahirih Justice Center.

Defunding Public Media Would Stifle Digital Innovation

by Jessica Clark 21/3/11 MEDIASHIFT

Given the toxic tone of the debate over the last few weeks, neither public media leaders nor station staff are eager to go on the record with their concerns. But behind the scenes, they fret that the most vulnerable dollars are those funding cross-platform, mobile and participatory public media experiments.

Coalition for Workforce Innovation v. Su

by PUBLICCITIZEN

Business groups challenged the 2024 regulation in a Texas district court. On behalf of Public Citizen and the National Employment Law Project (NELP), we filed an amicus brief in support of DOL. The brief explains that misclassification of workers is a significant problem, that the 2021 regulation risked exacerbating that problem, and that the 2024 regulation was a reasonable step to eliminate that increased risk.