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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Adventure in Reading
Abominable Snowman, which features the voices of actors William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman. Norton believes the DVDs will actually encourage kids to read, just as children read Harry Potter books after seeing one of the movies. Even...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A Day’s Pay
Times (June 3, 2010). “It’s kind of hard to take the farmworker out of the kid and the legislator when you come from farmworker stock and you see what your parents and grandparents have gone through.” As for the future, Florez said public...
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Jayon Wang
freeze your drink. Teachers and friends all laughed knowingly, “Jayon is at it again!” For my first ‘real job’, I launched a grand plan to fix Big Oil from the inside. An Asian-American liberal kid showing up in Houston with East-Coast...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Leading Quietly
eight chapters - whose titles include "Craft a Compromise," "Don't Kid Yourself," "Buy a Little Time," and "Bend the Rules" - is gleaned from the quiet leaders Badaracco studied. The book is full of practical advice, but Badaracco...
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Marty Blue
predominantly as a licensor. She worked across a number of different brands (eg. Reebok, Weebok, Rockport, Greg Norman golf, and Boston Whaler) and product categories including kids footwear & apparel, sporting goods equipment and fitness...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
at two marketing case competitions Starting Up: Lean Forward Media, interactive entertainment for kids Long-Term Goal: CEO of a global media company Return to Portraits story or visit his alumni page.
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
Another area that we’re interested in is how parents should think about these things with their kids. How should we think about teaching our kids about time and money so that they make decisions that science says are good for them? What...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
back up to speed academically? Sal Khan: As we look to the next several months, we are thinking about how students are going to show up to school with huge gaps in their knowledge. Some kids will keep learning and might even accelerate....
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Ryan Kennedy
McDonald's – seeing firsthand the building blocks of opportunity. Hard work, sacrifice, and support for one another. I retired my McDonald's uniform many years ago. I won’t retire the learning: opportunity is a precious gift, but one best shared. I will dedicate my...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson
wouldn’t be there — but the kids would,” he said with a laugh. From then on he took the 4:42 p.m. train home, gave his kids a bath, and read them stories before continuing to work after they’d gone to sleep....
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
71 Snapshots
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale Kid at Heart — John H. Eyler No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter Starting Now —...
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- 14 Apr 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)
“Essentially it’s a database match. We have a database of martial arts instructors who meet our standards; a list of gyms that often have open slots for more students; a list of kids who can benefit from participating, provided by Atlanta...
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- 09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
learning to read, to reading to learn. By some reports, more than half of kids are getting left behind. A government mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) has been launched to address this. I think the government has a role...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance
people to think about what they would want for their own biological child,” she says. “Ninety-eight percent of our students are minorities, eighty-nine percent qualify for free or reduced lunch, and eighty-four percent will be first-generation college students. When I...
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Sridevi Raghavan
Looking out of the first floor balcony of my home in Chennai, I would notice laborers; rickshaw drivers and maids lovingly dropping their kids off at school. I could see their eyes sparkle with dreams and hopes for their children. I...
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- 22 Sep 2015
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Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education
video, Wu talks about what inspired her decision to focus her career on making a difference in education. “I realized a few years ago, because of a friend who asked me what problem in the world was something I felt compelled to solve, that it was this question of...
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- 01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003
Laurent Chenot “I want to raise my kids for whoever they are, not for what I want them to be.” First Novel: Angel, written, looking for publisher Born: Sainte-Adresse, France First Trip to United States: summer 1994, intern at Michelin in...
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Molli Hourihan
They both knew how to love through food. I don't have children yet but I know that becoming a mother will be my greatest achievement. I hope the dishes my husband and I make our kids will inspire them to develop tastes and minds of their...
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JJ Singh
ensure that my brother and I had a stable future. They would rather leave behind a financial foundation than splurge in their twilight. Yet, despite their discipline, they couldn"t account for one irony: their new country, their land of opportunity, couldn't save....
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Deborah Owolabi
engineer!” I dutifully answered. Because how do I explain to them my desire, my need, to just be a child? I never got to be the kid who played without worry. Trauma has a way of leaving a lasting mark. It looks like always being the...
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