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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
within school districts themselves. These authorizers sign charters to a contract—usually between 5 and 15 years—with specific targets for academic performance promised. But critics say the groups have... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- News
Don't prop up failing schools
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
largest school districts in the country, the survey found that business is involved in 95 percent of America's school districts, but mostly in a fragmented array of efforts... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
working with leadership teams from nine urban school districts over the course of three annual sessions to coordinate research and create coherent, scalable systems for education reform. Two cases written... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
Nick Simmons (MBA/MPP 2019) was no stranger to the principal’s office as a student. “I was definitely an active, energetic young person who wasn’t always paying the closest attention,” says Simmons, currently senior advisor for school... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Tales Out of School
Baltimore-based company that provides before- and after-school programs at eighty schools in nine states. Half the programs are in poorer school districts and are supported by... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Turning Troubled Schools into High-Achievers
process of transforming troubled schools—and the net results. “I founded and now run an organization, a nonprofit called UP Education Network. We are an organization that focuses on turning around the most chronically underperforming View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges
to manage issues specific to her school as well as the many pandemic-related challenges that have arisen. Quelling the fears of teachers and parents in a state with one of the highest COVID-19 infection rates is among them. “An issue... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training great principals to lead great schools
At New Leaders, Benjamin Fenton (AB 1996, MBA 2000) directs strategy for the only national organization focused on developing exceptional school leaders for high-need district and charter schools. Between... View Details
- 22 Oct 2014
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Preparing middle school students for the opportunities that lie ahead
done a lot of work supporting the public school districts and I was becoming more and more familiar with what was going on in the public schools in terms of student achievement... View Details
- 24 Aug 2021
- News
Throwing Our Kids to the Wolves
- 11 Oct 2011
- News
The rise of online education
- 28 Apr 2014
- News
Apple-Samsung $2 Billion Patent Case Over Google Near End
- 14 Sep 2009
- News
Moving Beyond the Conventional Wisdom of Whole-District Reform
- 07 Aug 2014
- News
Summer School? Teens Trade Classes for Factory Jobs
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In November of 2022, 33-year-old Phillip Jones (MPA/MBA 2021) was elected mayor of Newport News, Virginia, where he had spent part of his childhood. The son of two Air Force veterans, he served six years in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
graders passed the state reading assessment (80 percent passed statewide). And in 2012, the Columbus Dispatch reported that district employees had tampered with enrollment and attendance records to artificially boost View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
University’s Earth Institute. The road ahead will not be smooth. “You’re talking about the most important and complex city in the world,” says John Macomber, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School who studies public infrastructure,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
best-practice scheduling at the elementary, middle, and high school levels, this book will help school and district leaders—and the teachers and students they serve—make the... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that... View Details