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- 11 Oct 2023
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Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Turning Point: Listen to the Music
Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Marnie Tattersall: (MBA 1972) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and came to the United States in 1958 with my parents and my brother because my parents thought it was...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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John Crowley’s Extraordinary Measures
sixth grades in Princeton, New Jersey, public schools, aided by ventilators and wheelchairs and accompanied by nurses. Pompe doesn’t affect their minds. “They’re bright, precocious, and very happy kids,” says Crowley. —Sarah Auerbach
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- 31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
north: “I was raised in Dayton, Ohio, by my single mother and my grandparents. We had all the basics money could buy and everything it couldn’t: love, honor, respect, values, and faith. That was the foundation, as was education.” Level up: “In 11th View Details
- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
the schoolyard.) He traces his disciplined approach to the financial world and some of his financial smarts as a hedge fund guru back to chess. And he’s quite certain it was chess that brought his grades from a D average in high school to...
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Maureen Harmon
- 27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success
changes,” Turner notes. “The quality then is inferior, but some producers mix it in with their better grades to stretch yield. We decided not to do that.” Turner also links his brand’s flavor to a purification process inspired by his...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson
close-knit community where his father owned a trucking company. Although neither of his parents finished college, both stressed the importance of education. After skipping two grades and gaining admission to the academically rigorous...
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- 10 Apr 2023
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Leading the Way
Foundation (BALF) has impacted the lives of thousands of underserved youth like Trejo in Arizona, and currently serves more than 14,000 middle, high school, and college students annually. Be A Leader programming—offered in partnership with multiple Arizona school...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 1998
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High Honors
the many career obstacles faced by African Americans, who still represent less than 5 percent of the Fortune 1000's senior managers. Fudge says she also received encouragement from the nuns in the Catholic schools she attended throughout View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave
deemed important was Business Problem Analysis, which required frequent written reports; MacDonald earned only a Pass, the third grade below Distinction and High Pass. With his bookishness, intensified course load, and married life, his...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
segregated white and Black neighborhoods. Analysis by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition indicates that three-quarters of the neighborhoods graded as hazardous 80 years ago are now low- to moderate-income communities, with...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Down the Memory Chute
course, “such reports to be graded not only in substance but also on English,” HBS professor Melvin Copeland later wrote. Four-fifths of the students promptly failed. Thus began decades of experimentation and modification, with decidedly...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2010
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Teamwork
TEAMWORK: What better way for first-year students to meet their Learning Teams than to gather on the lawn outside Spangler Center on a summery September afternoon? Composed of six or seven students from different sections, the teams collaborate on View Details
- 24 Mar 2020
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Stopgap Schooling
learning site in 2005, met with his team right away to formulate a response. “After intensive discussions with colleagues, on Friday at 5:30 p.m. PDT, he added a link to the Khan Academy site with suggested daily timelines for four age groups, from Pre-K to View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
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Showing Girls the Possibilities
about children and my engagement serving on the board of National Boys and Girls Club, my engagement as a Big Sister working with young girls, and most recently, with Mother Caroline Academy in Dorchester, which is grade four to eight....
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?
sad story of our slippage in mathematics and science. In fourth grade, American children are ahead of almost everyone in the world. By the eighth grade they are even, and by twelfth grade they are seriously...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Educating children through inquiry-based learning
Kim Frock (MBA 1987) cofounded the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, to provide an academically challenging, inquiry-based learning environment for children in grades 6 through 8. The independent school...
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- 16 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning
building partnerships with Boston public schools to bring students in grades five through eight out to the island for hands-on science education,” Pearson notes. The goal is a sequential, four-year curriculum that is intended to develop...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Decisions through the Ages
import-export. Watanabe went to school in Japan until the eighth grade before moving to America where he completed his higher education, joined McKinsey, and eventually returned to Japan. It was there he had an idea for a book, pitched to...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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New School for New Orleans
charter-management organization designed to turn around failing schools. When Hurricane Katrina struck, Alford was teaching at a charter school in Baltimore. He moved to the Big Easy, where he founded and is “school leader” of the Langston Hughes Academy, a...
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