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  • 25 Aug 2021
  • News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) first began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools system, she saw that elementary schools seemed to be getting better in the Chicago area. But once... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

schools. What was the appeal of charter schools in this sensitive environment? What opportunities do they present both for improving public education and utilizing best practices in entrepreneurship? Childress explains below. Sarah Jane... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • News

New Kid in School

Ellison: Teaching is "in my DNA." Courtesy Ed Ellison After graduating from HBS and spending several years at Salomon Brothers and CS First Boston, Ed Ellison (MBA ’91) left Wall Street to go into education because “teaching and coaching... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 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
Keywords: Anthony Priest; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 24 Jul 2020
  • News

Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

Photo courtesy of Melissa Zaikos Back in 2011, when Melissa Zaikos (MBA 2000) began digging deeply into the standardized test scores of the Chicago Public Schools, she saw some concerning trends. Elementary schools, she thought, seemed to... View Details
  • 23 Dec 2009
  • News

In the Zone

through the Leadership Fellows Program has been great because it’s given me direct access to senior management right away,” she says. “That’s why I went to business school in the first place — I want to be on the management side and use my View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • News

One School at a Time

Frock in an ASMS classroom; "Students learn by doing." Courtesy Kim Frock Students at the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, don’t diagram what a circuit board looks like on a piece of paper; they wire one themselves. Led by... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 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
Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 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
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Dean’s Award

Achievement program with ninth graders at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School Matthew J. Turner (second from left), for his involvement in a broad range of activities, including his section, the Entrepreneurship Club, the African-American Student Union, and the Gardner... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 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
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 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
Keywords: Linda Kush; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 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
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 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
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
  • 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
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Shackleton Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
  • 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
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services
  • 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
Keywords: Tyler Bridges; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools
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