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Threatened by Success One charter school's fight against the education establishment...   |
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February 2002
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Watching the Numbers Unlike district schools, San Francisco's Edison Charter must succeed to survive... |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2001
Chuck Sudetic |
Reading, Writing, and Revenue From New York to San Francisco, Edison Schools Inc. has been selling the idea that for-profit management companies can do a better job of teaching kids than public-school districts. But a growing number of educators say the reality doesn't match the hype... |
BusinessWeek
October 17, 2005 |
Education: "A Train Wreck Is Coming" Edison Schools CEO Chris Whittle talks about the crisis American elementary schools face in meeting the goals of No Child Left Behind. |
Reason
November 2002
Lisa Snell |
Scoring High A charter school's ups and downs |
Reason
December 2002
Lisa Snell |
No Dollars or Sense Behold Edison Schools' grim, dispiriting bottom line: The company has spent more money than it has taken in. It has nothing to do with the education industry or public education, and everything to do with too many top-level executives making six-figure salaries. |
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. |
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. |
Reason
May 2002 |
Letters The Media and G.I. Joe... Charter Rebuff... Three Priests and a Rabbi... Teen Demons... |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 1, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
A Strategy Worth Watching The Excellence in Teaching Project discards frivolous checklists in favor of a purposeful online, observation-based process of assessing teachers' performance. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012 |
Raising Their Game When done right professional development can make a real difference for students. |
HBS Working Knowledge
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
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
July 2009
Lisa Snell |
The Graduates Charter school success |
T.H.E. Journal
April 1, 2010
Bridget McCrea |
It Goes Both Ways The days of using the internet as merely a one-way supplier of news are over. With social media tools encouraging a back- and-forth exchange of information, parents, alumni, and other stakeholders can participate directly in the life of their school. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 1, 2010
Vanessa Hua |
Scare Tactics In April, as public fears about a mysterious new strain of flu grew, the Los Angeles Unified School District moved to forestall a panic. Many districts are using technology solutions to respond to emergencies such as this. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 17, 2010
David Nagel |
Snapshot: Students Want Online Learning High school students seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of online instruction as a component of their educations. |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Resistance is Futile Even as technology use grows embedded in education, some teachers still prefer the old ways. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 28, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Wisconsin District To Launch Online School Howard-Suamico School District of Green Bay, WI, has announced it will partner with Kaplan Virtual Education to launch Bay Port iAcademy to provide full- and part-time online education opportunities to middle school and high school students throughout the state. |
T.H.E. Journal
May 2006
Matt Miller |
Staying Connected Is a 'Breeze' An ed-tech specialist explains how a versatile Web conferencing tool is helping his sprawling district remove the distance between teachers, administrators, and staff. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2005
Williams & Krueger |
Is Your Network Safe? Why educators should care about cybersecurity - and what they should do about it. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 22, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Georgia District Drives Savings Through Energy Initiative Marietta City Schools launched a competition among the schools in the district that led to energy and cost savings in every school in the district. |
BusinessWeek
April 2, 2007
Hardy Green |
Invention Deficit Disorder "The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World" is a perceptive account of the inventors' life - and surprisingly limited achievements. |
Salon.com
July 31, 2001
William Bradley |
Gray Davis' Edison problem The governor struggles to orchestrate a multimillion-dollar bailout of the utility that has spent big bucks on his campaign... |
CIO
August 15, 2001 |
Lighten Up As every third-grader knows, Thomas Edison invented the electric lightbulb. Or did he? It's painful to cast aspersions on the reputation of one of our heroes, but Edison, who patented his bulb in 1879, improved on a design that a British inventor had patented 10 years earlier... |
T.H.E. Journal
March 2009
Paula Jacobs |
Power Grab Facilities departments combine sophisticated technologies with ordinary common-sense steps to shave dollars and kilowatts off energy consumption. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2011 |
A Brief History of Consolidated Edison's Returns Edison shares returned 143% over the past decade. How'd they get there? |
Entrepreneur
November 2003
Joshua Kurlantzick |
Private Partners Can the privatization trend help your company grow? |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2002
Daniel Brook |
Class Activist It's not easy being an activist when you're only 16. High school junior Selemawit Tewelde is facilitating a group trying to fight privatization in the Philadelphia schools... |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2006
Justin Mullins |
The First Electronic Device, Ever? A set of lightbulbs belonging to Thomas Edison could fetch $500 000 when it goes under the hammer. But the star of the collection is one of Edison's unappreciated inventions: a bulb that may well have been the world's first vacuum tube. |
National Real Estate Investor
April 9, 2003 |
Phillips Edison acquires Aegis Realty Phillips Edison & Co. recently announced the completion of its merger transaction with the publicly traded Aegis Realty Inc., and acquisition of the Aegis portfolio of 27 grocery-anchored shopping centers totaling 3.1 million sq. ft. |
