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Maternal health policy change won’t save enough mothers’ lives

Christensen Institute

Perhaps most influential among them was the CDC’s 2022 report , which stated over 80% of these deaths were avoidable. Policies are a critical lever for change. But as I’ll detail here, policy alone is not enough. See the report for the types of business models that do this effectively.)

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A policy playbook for school innovation, given continued struggles for students

Christensen Institute

As educators, policymakers, and the media fret that the unprecedented levels of federal investment in our nation’s schools during the pandemic haven’t had the impact that they had hoped on helping students rebound, some have asked how policy can help schools rethink and reinvent schooling rather than stick with the status quo.

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Employers Making Strides To Improve Workplace Mental Health

Business and Tech

As workplace stress continues to rise, some employers are making changes to increase benefits that promote self-care, wellbeing, and life-work balance. With the ‘great resignation,’ many employers realized big changes needed to be made to increase worker retention and overall mental satisfaction while on the job.”.

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How the Pandemic Changed the Way Cybersecurity Professionals Work

Business and Tech

COVID-19 forced a lot of change in the ways we operate businesses, including where we perform our jobs. The flexibility offered by remote work policies has allowed cybersecurity professionals to address cybersecurity issues quickly, educate staff on the latest cybersecurity threats, enhance monitoring and defenses, and so much more.

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Checking for the global pulse of innovation

Paul Hobcraft

As a report, the 2019 Global Innovation Index (GII) is a whopper, at 450 pages, although 50% of this is detailed economic profiles and data tables for each country within the index. This GII report investigates and reports on 129 countries and then analyzes and ranks them accordingly. Yet the innovation message is for us all.

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Transforming existing schools is an exercise in futility

Christensen Institute

Students who are comfortable with the routines of conventional schools don’t like having the rules changed mid- game. State officials expect innovative schools to still follow the policies made for conventional schools. Teachers don’t like discarding practices they’ve refined through years of experience. And the list goes on.

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Sharply accelerating clean energy innovation

Paul Hobcraft

At their own admission, it has been three years since they (IEA) released its last Energy Technology Perspective (ETP) report. The “drag and resistance to change” is significant. Visual taken from the new IEA report “Energy Technology perspective: Special Report on Clean Energy Innovation” released today, 2nd July 2020, page 167.

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