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- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
multigenerational cycles of poverty. “You can’t expect schools to consistently outperform the health of their neighborhoods,” says Majors, a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group. “The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
coaching the CEO of a charter school management organization. "I love working with spectacular people and helping break down the barriers that stand in their way." View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
intelligent, committed, and open to new ideas. People walk the walk and get things done. That culture makes this an interesting place to work.” HCZ operates two charter schools and is constructing a new... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap Learning Curve Building Great Schools around Great Teachers So when Leschly returned to HBS to teach entrepreneurship, he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
populated, in part, by HBS alumni. Doug Lemov (MBA 2004) is pushing to "reteach" teachers, equipping practitioners with real-world skills to improve learning ("5 Bright Ideas"). Scott Given (MBA 2010) and his fellow charter View Details
- 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... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A bold experiment in education
A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
Photos by Genaro Vavuris At first glance, The Primary School looks just as one might imagine a neighborhood school should: A mother carrying a toddler guides her older daughter up the walkway; a teacher... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New 1908 Society Embraces Senior Alumni
the 60th Reunion are charter members of the Society. Each year, a new class will be inducted. More than sixteen hundred invitations have gone out to graduates for the inaugural 1908 Society reunion, September 30–October 1, 2004. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
bring much-needed accountability into the system? —Jim Mills (MBA 1986) Tim Draper’s investment in the school voucher campaign was not for naught. It caused the legislature to panic and pass a surprisingly progressive View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
Harvard Business School alumni are invited to participate in Harvard University’s elections for both the Board of Overseers and the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA). The elections will determine five new Overseers and six new HAA... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
An engine of innovation in public education
Drawing upon his background as an entrepreneur and educator, Stig Leschly (MBA 1997/JD 1998) leads Match Education, a reform group that seeks to redefine effective teaching and improve the educational experience of low-income students. It runs four urban public View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
that’s happening, and I just was like, you know, how am I and how are we going to do all of this? And with kids, you don’t get second chances. You’ve got to get this right.” Dan Morrell: When Constance Jones (MBA 2008) joined the Noble Network of View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
the Path to College, has sold more than 500,000 copies in America and been translated into eight languages. Lemov is a managing director of the charter school organization Uncommon Schools, which runs 32... View Details
- 10 Mar 2016
- News
Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
Lemov’s work with the coaches, employing the skills that he detailed in his 2010 book Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques That Put Students on the Path to College. (For more on this, read the Bulletin’s 2013 article detailing Lemov’s work as director of View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
midst of starting Valiente College Prep, a Los Angeles charter school set to open in August 2015. “In America, we have millions of jobs that will need to be filled in engineering, science, and technology. We... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
girls’ JV high school basketball team and ran a tutoring program. “I realized I was happier doing that and wanted to be in education full time. That’s what I’m passionate about,” says Agarwal, who took a leap of faith and landed at... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
ago that I realized the depths to which the public education system in California had sunk,” she recalls. “I was working seven or eight hours a week in my community. I had been on the board at a charter View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
charter the CGC, while funding would come predominantly from public investors. To launch the college, the proposal seeks a congressional mandate to require companies receiving federal TARP bailout money to allocate three board seats to... View Details