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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
chief Arne Duncan his secretary of education in 2008, there was great optimism in the charter school movement. Duncan, after all, had long welcomed charters—public schools operating outside the education... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
D.C., to work at a nonprofit education-reform group. Then, as now, I feel the future of any society depends on its ability to educate and prepare the next generation to take its turn at the wheel. For a time, I rejoined the for-profit... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Students Serve the Community
In September, as part of an “Impact Initiative,” some 130 first-year HBS students visited two Boston public schools to discuss leadership with small groups of seventh graders. “We wanted the middle-school students, or Super Sevens as we call them, to reflect on what it... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
totally honest with you.” The charter network faced a Chicago political landscape in upheaval, with a teacher strike looming and a heated mayoral race underway with education as a focal point. And then, in the fall of 2018, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Back to School
Whitney: She hopes to graduate from admissions to running a school one day. When Stephanie Whitney (MBA ’85) left behind a globe-trotting career in marketing in 1996 to raise her two young sons and get involved in her community, she had no idea she was about to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Baltimore City Public Schools CEO Andrés Alonso for a prized spot on the team that represents the district at a weeklong summer institute run by Harvard's Public Education Leadership Project (PELP). Harcum's assessment of the... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
high achievement, while their neighbors in other public schools were struggling. For the first time, he understood the stark contrast in public education between the upper-middle-class world he knew and impoverished neighborhoods. "It's a... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- News
A Passionate Patron and Collector
a home in Wharton, Texas. The article also notes that Van Lee will soon be honored by the Theater Development Fund for his dedicated support of the arts. The interview portion of the article asks Van Lee about his educational background,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint... View Details
- 05 May 2017
- News
Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO
challenge is the sales performance; that’s no secret,” Parneros told the Times. “We’ve got to figure out ways to change things up a little bit and increase traffic.” Parneros told the Times that he sees strengths in the company’s expansion in View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Coach for Life
BOB HURLEY Bob Hurley, one of the winningest coaches in boys' high-school basketball history, made his full-court presence felt at HBS on March 28 when he visited Aldrich Hall for the tip-off of a new case about him and his life's work. "Coach Hurley at St. Anthony... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
A Tough Assignment
O’neill: An educational expedition. Courtesy Shackleton Schools As a corporate lawyer living in Greenwich, Connecticut, Luke O’Neill (MBA ’95) was on a well-defined path of success. But something about his life didn’t sit right. He quit... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
Aubree Mills with students at the Ira A. Murphy Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona. Courtesy Aubree Mills Elementary school principal Aubree Mills had two dilemmas she needed to address: One was recruiting... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 13 Jun 2013
- News
Learning Curve
each partnership school retains budgetary and management independence. Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Inspired to focus his career on improving education after teaching for a year in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) Deputy Director of Education, Next Generation Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Illustrations by Peter Hoey TAILORED TEACHING "One of our anchors... View Details
- 08 Sep 2022
- News
Learning Curve
1997, as an experiment, with just four students. Katie and three others would benefit from both individualized attention and interaction with other children. Jerome Rosner, an optometrist and University of Houston professor (who passed away in 2014), and Shara... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Harbus Foundation Supports Community Projects
Miguel, a junior at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School, is eager to tell others about the civil rights tour he took last summer in the South. He and fellow students involved in the Bill of Rights Education Project will be able to... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Charles W. ("Bill") Cassell
seems, on a broader scale, to inform his commitment to his new career as well. Says Cassell, "I have come to believe that elementary education is the best place for me to influence the future." View Details
Keywords: Eileen McCluskey