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O Ministério da Educação aprovou materiais didáticos co-produzidos pela Editora Moderna e Ashoka que enfatizam a visão de que "Todos Somos Agentes de Transformação"

A corrupção sempre foi um tabu. Subornos em alguns países chegavam a ser dedutíveis dos impostos. Essa mentalidade começou a mudar quando Peter, tendo visto os danos incalculáveis ​​que esse cenário causava, especialmente em seu trabalho anterior, na área de desenvolvimento, fundou e construiu a...

Peace will be the flavor of the next week. The United Nation's International Day of Peace is next Friday, September 21, but things will get a little sweeter thanks to Ben & Jerry's, one of our partners (and a community favorite). They partnered with the Peace Alliance to hold a free ice cream...

Cultivating empathy and empowering children to become effective changemakers in their communities isn’t an add-on, or a brand-new concept: it starts with simply articulating, and then amplifying, how great teachers build empathy in students. Ashoka has set out to do just that, beginning with five...

A convening of five schools in 2012 yielded these tips on cultivating empathy in your school. The StartEmpathy team gathered together educators from Mission Hill School,Lake Forest Park School, the Center for Inspired Teaching Demonstration School, Georgetown Day School, and Prospect Sierra School -...

Editor's Note: Ashoka imagines a world where education is truly transformational, where every child has mastered empathy—and would like to work with you to help build it. Join us on StartEmpathy.org, our new digital home for all things empathy, where you can learn why empathy matters, pick up...

Empathy: em·pa·thy [em-puh-thee] It’s a beautiful word, derived from the suffix -em (meaning “to make into, to put into, to get into”) and -pathy (meaning “suffering”). What I consider especially beautiful about this word is that, unlike “sympathy” (which translates literally to “with” + “suffering”...

Earlier this week, reports surfaced about an 11-year-old boy with autism, who was beaten up by a fellow student while waiting at the bus stop. The event was filmed on a student’s cell phone, as his peers egged on his attacker, and subsequently uploaded to Facebook. It later emerged that Kaleb Kula...

Social change isn’t rocket science; it’s just a matter of gumption and drive. Policy-makers, think-tanks, and academics aren’t the only ones with the power and ideas to change the world. Changemaking can belong to all of us. And nowhere is this dynamic potential more evident than among the emerging...