Projectskeyboard_arrow_rightSmarter Crowdsourcing Education Smarter Crowdsourcing Education
Exploring innovative practices that can improve our ability to measure non-academic success effectively and equitably
Description
The Walton Family Foundation is interested in exploring recent developments across both the field of non-academic measures and related fields from which insights might be gleaned in order to uncover broad trends, opportunities for growth, and key challenges faced by educators, policymakers, and community members. Based on this discovery process, the WFF seeks to develop recommendations around how non-academic measures can be designed, implemented, and used to improve learning, college and career readiness, and long-term economic mobility outcomes for all students.
To this end, the WFF has partnered The GovLab to develop “Smarter Crowdsourcing: Education.” This process combines rigorous problem definition with crowdsourcing to rapidly source expert advising that will enable the WFF to identify key opportunities and challenges in the field of non-academic measures and rapidly develop those learnings into an actionable strategic plan.
Results & Impact
Smarter Crowdsourcing: Education launched in January 2021 and is ongoing. The GovLab is hosting a series of conversations with researchers, philanthropists, community leaders, entrepreneurs,and governments to discuss how to equitably identify and measure the non-academic skills young people need to succeed, and how to engage communities in that process. Actionable ideas emerging from the discussions will be rapidly developed into implementation plans that will be shared with the Walton Family Foundation to inform their funding strategies.
