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Mark Zuckerberg Joins AltSchool's Backers The presence of philanthropic donors will arguably ensure that AltSchool prioritizes working with public schools, including charters.   |
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January 30, 2006
Mallory Stark |
Lessons From Privately Managed Schools An interview with Steven Wilson, founder and former CEO of educational management organization (EMO) Advantage Schools on how -- and if -- professional business management practices can improve the performance of troubled American public schools. |
BusinessWeek
June 26, 2006 |
Best Practices: A Top 10 List Frustrated by the meager payoff from its traditional efforts to improve schools, a new generation of business philanthropists is developing innovative approaches to solving this seemingly intractable problem. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 14, 2008
Sarah Jane Gilbert |
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina The organization New Schools for New Orleans aims to create networks of schools to receive shared support services while avoiding the dysfunctions of a large urban district. |
Fast Company
September 2006 |
School Days Should for-profit companies run public schools? An entrepreneur and a principal weigh in. |
Fast Company
April 2000
Sara Terry |
Schools That Think Everyone agrees: Education is essential for the future of the new economy. Everyone agrees: The public education system needs reform. No one agrees on how to do it. Here are four models for the future. |
Salon.com
April 16, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
The Bush education plan is too timid We need to give families a choice -- and that means vouchers and charter schools... |
IDB America
May 2002
Lawrence Wolff |
An environment that encourages change Chile begins to see the fruits of nearly two decades of educational reform |
Fast Company
February 2011
Jeff Chu |
Michelle Rhee Wants to Spend $1 Billion Fixing Education In a series of interviews, Rhee told Fast Company the inside story of the genesis of Students First, discussed her hopes for the organization, and talked about those audacious goals. |
Salon.com
May 30, 2000
Jonathan Schorr |
The charter school challenge Notes from two pioneering California charter schools -- one a success story, the other a failure. |
BusinessWeek
June 26, 2006
William C. Symonds |
The Reform Of School Reform Business is replacing the old piecemeal approach with ambitious efforts to revamp education on a far larger scale. |
BusinessWeek
July 15, 2010 |
Bill Gates' School Crusade Bill Gates' foundation is betting billions that a business approach can work wonders in the classroom. |
Job Journal
July 29, 2007
Rich Heintz |
Valuable Lessons on Teaching in Private Schools For those considering a career in the classroom, private schools offer teachers an inspirational choice. |
Teacher Magazine
May 2000 |
Becoming Good American Schools Book reviews on detracking, the "feel-good" curriculum, and charter schools |
BusinessWeek
June 26, 2006
Greene & Symonds |
Bill Gates Gets Schooled Why Bill Gates and other execs have struggled in their school reform efforts, and why they keep trying. |
Reason
December 2005 |
Let a Thousand Choices Bloom Fifty years after Milton Friedman first proposed the idea of education vouchers, school choice proposals come in all shapes and sizes. Here, 12 experts debate the future of American education reform. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2008 |
Extracurricular :: For technologists who do their homework Technology-aided instructional practices are key to successful teaching in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and math. McKinley Technology High School's testing scores are proof of that |
T.H.E. Journal
December 2001
Sylvia Charp |
Assessment and Accountability Tests are a means, not an end. To increase educational achievement, teachers should be responsible for judging student performance, giving out grades and deciding to pass or fail students... |
Reason
July 2009
Lisa Snell |
The Graduates Charter school success |
Reason
February 2002
Joanne Jacobs |
Threatened by Success One charter school's fight against the education establishment... |
T.H.E. Journal
March 15, 2010
David Nagel |
Obama's ESEA Blueprint Continues Emphasis on Assessment President Obama has released his new "Blueprint" for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, calling for the transformation of American K-12 education into a "world-class" system. |
Salon.com
May 11, 2001
Meg Robbins |
The failure of testing President Bush wants to "test every child, every year." But a growing movement of families and teachers insists this is a formula for mediocre schooling and stressed-out kids. |
Reason
June 2005
Lisa Snell |
How Schools Cheat From underreporting violence to inflating graduation rates to fudging test scores, educators are lying to the American public. |
Reason
October 2000
Nick Gillespie |
Without Merit Why merit pay won't reform public education... |
Fast Company
May 1, 2007
Ellen McGirt |
Hacker. Dropout. CEO. When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real? |
Reason
October 2004
Lisa Snell |
No Way Out The No Child Left Behind Act provides only the illusion of school choice. |
The Motley Fool
February 11, 2005
Whitney Tilson |
Learning From Ideas for Public Schools Strategies used in the reform of the NYPD can be used to improve public schools and corporations. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Lisa Snell |
Schoolhouse Crock Why George W. Bush's education reforms won't change anything... |
T.H.E. Journal
August 2006
Michelle Gamble-Risley |
Surviving Accountability: As Easy as AYP Data-driven strategies and personalized instruction are paving the way to higher test scores, one student at a time. |
IndustryWeek
July 22, 2009
Jonathan Katz |
Educating Next-Generation Innovators 'Radical reform' needed in schools to keep the United States competitive in the product-development race. |
Reason
April 2006
Lisa Snell |
The Agony of American Education How per-student funding can revolutionize public schools in the U.S. |
Entrepreneur
June 2006
April Y. Pennington |
Friendly Faces A Harvard student creates a new way for students to network and revolutionizes how this generation's classmates connect. |
Fast Company
September 2008
Kate Rockwood |
A History of Public Education Reform in the U.S. Michelle Rhee's overhaul of the D.C. school system is the latest entry in a long history of attempts to improve public education in the U.S. Read on for some highlights. |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005
William C. Symonds |
It's Teacher Salaries, Stupid Chris Whittle's book, "Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education," is a provocative look at proposed radical school reforms. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2008
Laura Vanderkam |
Earning Their Keep A new breed of urban Catholic high school asks disadvantaged kids to work for their tuition. |
Reason
April 2006
Lisa Snell |
Meet Arlene Ackerman An interview with San Francisco's superintendent of schools on the implementation and impact of the weighted student formula as well as the future of school choice in that city. |
Salon.com
May 7, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
School of lies When it comes to education, only one rule applies in the nation's capital: "If it's broke, don't fix it"... |
Teacher Magazine
May 2000
Catherine Gewertz |
In Jerry We Trust The biggest test of Brown's leadership may lie ahead. |
Fast Company
January 2006
Wendy Zellner |
The Gates Effect The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to fix American high schools. Is it laying its enormous bets in the right places? |
Salon.com
May 22, 2000
Joan Walsh |
Can these schools be saved? Salon's week-long look at the state of America's public schools |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2006
Nodine & Petrides |
ISKME Special Series Part 4: Using Data to Improve Instruction Connecting the dots: how to use data to get from districtwide goal-setting to school-level performance. |
HBS Working Knowledge
July 4, 2005
James Heskett |
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? Business schools focus more on academic rigor than preparing students for future professional success. It may be time to change this focus. |
T.H.E. Journal
April 2005
Donald R. Tetreault |
Administrative Technology: New Rules, New Tools A pilot study of Excelsior Software's electronic gradebook solution reveals the impact and time-saving qualities of administrative software. |
Salon.com
June 7, 2001
Arianna Huffington |
Betraying our children Rather than reform our schools, Bush's test-centric education bill will lead to game-show-style teaching and unfairly categorize kids as failures... |
Fast Company
November 2010
Jeninne Lee St. John |
Teach for America's Most Influential Alumni Ahead of Teach for America's 20th-anniversary alumni summit in February, a look at the influentials who have emerged from the ranks of TFA vets. |
Teacher Magazine
May 2000
Samantha Stainburn |
Gift Rap Rich people compete in the donations-to-public-schools sweepstakes. |
Salon.com
May 26, 2000
Catherine Davis |
Money talks In wealthy school districts, it drowns out the sound of the teachers. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2009
Rama Ramaswami |
A World of Hurt : Latin America Massive socioeconomic problems have left Latin American education in a dire condition, and decades behind the rest of the globe in integrating technology into teaching and learning. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2003
Bloomfield & Cooper |
NCLB: A New Role for the Federal Government An overview of the most sweeping federal education law since 1965 |
Reason
February 2002
Joanne Jacobs |
Watching the Numbers Unlike district schools, San Francisco's Edison Charter must succeed to survive... |
