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- 15 Sep 2010
- News
A Model for Free Schools in Britain
- 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
Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
been kindled when he was seven by Gordy’s Elementary History of the United States, a gift from his father in 1925. “I read it twenty times,” Chandler said. “It gave me a wonderful advantage as a historian. I knew every generation, every... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- News
Bringing Art Into Kenya's Schools
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Feedback
network of all-girls public charter schools, which includes Girls Prep Lower East Side, this year celebrating its 10th anniversary....For the third consecutive year, 97 percent or more of fourth-grade scholars at Girls Prep Elementary... 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
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
University of Houston professor, and Shara Bumgarner, a Houston elementary school teacher. Melcher located some classroom space and then watched as her daughter began to acquire social and communication skills in the new environment.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
Cyril Taylor (MBA 1961) (Amberley Publishing) As a social entrepreneur and education reformer, Taylor helped establish 3,000 specialist schools and over 1,500 academies in the UK as well as founding and working as chairman of the American... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
The Art and Science of Teaching
Doug Lemov (MBA ’04), a charter-schools consultant and managing director of True North Public Schools, a network of schools in upstate New York, is a former teacher, principal, and charter-school founder. After years of trying to analyze and improve View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Angela Serino, manager of corporate responsibility for Natura, a Brazilian cosmetics company, and Maria de Graça Fernandes Branco, principal of Matilde Elementary and High School. The pair are subjects of a case produced by the SEKN that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
grateful student fans, Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
educational organization Zearn, which Sharma cofounded in 2012 and has served as CEO since 2016. Improving math education is a daunting enterprise, especially in the United States. According to the most... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
New York tech firms and medical centers. Public Education An HBS team led by Professor Jan Rivkin has partnered with The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on three reports that collectively offer best... View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- News
Teaching the Teachers
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
when I realized he was someone I could always count on," she recalls. Gehrke was back in the corporate world working for AT&T when their son Luke was born in 1984. Her work with his elementary school parents' association led to her... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 11 Mar 2010
- News
Teach for the World
- 16 Jan 2014
- News
Learning from Helping Others
GARRETT Ashley Garrett's 20 years as director of All Souls Soup Kitchen fed her soul. Raised and educated as a Quaker, Garrett (MBA 1987) says her family's values—consensus, equality, service, and integrity—provided her a solid foundation... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Owusu-Kesse’s pathway out of poverty began with scholarships to study at excellent elementary and secondary schools, which prepared him for admission to Harvard College, where he earned a degree in economics in 2005. “Education made all... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Khan and his not-for-profit, Internet-based Khan Academy, are turning traditional—and, many would say, obsolete—paradigms of public education upside down, as well as recasting learning and extending it to the remotest corners of the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
Risher: E-reading the African story “Treasure of the Trees” at the Kade Primary School in Ghana. Courtesy David Risher If you’ve just read Curious George Visits the Library and desperately want to get your hands on Curious George Goes to the Beach, being a second... View Details