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Program offering academic and financial support helps City Colleges students earn more, study finds

WBEZ Chicago
Students who started getting help from the nonprofit One Million Degrees while in high school were more likely to earn an associate degree and, on average, earned $14,000 more than their counterparts, University of Chicago researchers found.

The long-term labor benefits of student supports

Community College Daily
A new study sheds light on the long-term benefits of wraparound student supports on students’ employment and earnings. The University of Chicago Inclusive Economy Lab examined how City Colleges of Chicago students who participated in services provided through the student success nonprofit One...

New Study: Chicago-Based Program Drove Significant Gains in Graduation Rates and Career Outcomes for Community College Students

One Million Degrees
One Million Degrees (OMD) — the Chicago-based nonprofit that pioneered a comprehensive approach to boosting completion rates for community college students — and City Colleges of Chicago today announced new long-term results of an ongoing randomized controlled trial conducted by the University of...

Opinion | Good intentions alone won’t empower Indian women

Hindustan Times
This women's day, Sharanya Chandran and Akshara Gopalan reflect on why good intentions and increased budget allocations alone cannot empower Indian women — urging policymakers to address deep-rooted gender norms, engage men and boys, and ensure women have real autonomy and control over resources...

Video | Will AI Transform the Existing Economic Growth Model? Iqbal Dhaliwal, J-PAL, MIT | Anirudh Suri

Hindustan Times
In this episode of the AI Futures Podcast, Anirudh Suri sits down with Iqbal Dhaliwal, the Global Executive Director of MIT’s J-PAL, at the India AI Impact Summit. They explore the shift from traditional technology in development to the rapid rise of AI, focusing on how countries like India can...

Video | Dean Karlan on AI tools that actually do something

Devex
At the recent India AI Impact Summit, global development experts and researchers — including J-PAL’s Dean Karlan — called for a pivot from AI "hype" to a science-based, "verifiable" approach to technology in the sector.

AI tools that actually do something — beyond the hype and 'sales pitch'

Devex
At the India AI Impact Summit, Dean Karlan, former USAID chief economist and J-PAL affiliate, in conversation with Devex urged donors to fund evaluations over flashy AI pilots to prove which tools are worth scaling.

New Boost to J-PAL Enhances Education and AI Work to Reach 100 Million People in Five Years

The Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL), co-founded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Community Jameel in 2017 to spark a global renaissance in education, has spun out of MIT’s Open Learning department to join MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a global research...