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- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Honorable Mention
has been an institution that educates leaders. Those whom we honor today have been measured against a very high standard: they are leaders in a community of leaders." Clark then announced the award winners and briefly described their... View Details
- 24 Aug 2010
- News
Bringing Art Into Kenya's Schools
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Olivia Melendez
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I had always planned to get an MBA to complement my engineering education and experience. After working for 3+ years in roles that were increasingly self-directed and broad in scope, I... View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
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. Within three months,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Closing the Opportunity Gap
Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92) used the wealth he acquired in the 1990s Internet boom to realize a longtime goal. He started a special school to help disadvantaged young adults find careers in the corporate world. Chertavian’s Boston-based program, called Year Up,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2010
- News
A Model for Free Schools in Britain
- 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 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
- 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 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
- 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