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The Environment

Education Uncapped: The Potential of the Education Sector in City Climate Action Planning

Children and youth are increasingly confronted with climate-related challenges that threaten their health, well-being, and opportunity, and every sector ha ...

BY Lauren Simmons, & 3 more

Publication

10.18.2023
Urban Innovation

Who Gets to Learn from Failure?

This program explores the topics of public entrepreneurship, equity, and failure within the public sector. Who is given the benefit of the doubt and gets to learn from failure, and who does not?

Event

03.17.2021
Employment and Jobs

City Leaders Lay Out a Roadmap for Building a Lifelong Learning System

This blog highlights key takeaways from experts at a recent Future of Work Initiative event, which explored the barriers and opportunities of creating a system that helps, not hinders, lifelong learning.

BY Zach Neumann

Blog Post

01.14.2021
Employment and Jobs

The Path Forward: Support a More Equitable Education and Training System

In Building a Lifelong Learning System, the Future of Work Initiative recommends ways to support a more equitable education and training system.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

Blog Post

12.28.2020
Employment and Jobs

The Path Forward: Build Jobs & Training Digital Platform and Expand Career Counseling

In Building a Lifelong Learning System, the Future of Work Initiative recommends building a jobs and training digital platform and expanding career counseling.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

Blog Post

12.21.2020
Employment and Jobs

The Path Forward: Create Deputy Mayor Position and Establish an Advisory Council for Lifelong Learning

In Building a Lifelong Learning System, the Future of Work Initiative recommends creating a Deputy Mayor position and establishing an advisory council for lifelong learning.

BY Alastair Fitzpayne & 1 more

Blog Post

12.14.2020
Urban Innovation

How to Fail (Forward)

This expert panel of city leaders, technologists, and innovators discusses why it is usually so hard to learn from failure in government and what governments and their allies can do about it.

Event

07.27.2020
Climate Change

Climate Change and National Security (2019)

The Inter-Policy School Summit is a student-run conference hosted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy that seeks to propose rigorou ...

BY Energy and Environment Program & 1 more

Publication

07.08.2020
Climate Change

City Resiliency and Climate Change (2020)

The Inter-Policy School Summit is a student-run conference hosted by the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. The Summit brings together g ...

BY Energy and Environment Program & 1 more

Publication

06.29.2020
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