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Joanne Jacobs |
Watching the Numbers Unlike district schools, San Francisco's Edison Charter must succeed to survive...   |
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. |
Entrepreneur
April 2010 |
Top Honors Business school students give a shout out to their schools. The Princeton Review's Student Opinion Honors for business schools. |
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. |
Fast Company
September 2006 |
School Days Should for-profit companies run public schools? An entrepreneur and a principal weigh in. |
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 |
Reason
May 2004
Lisa Snell |
Capital Choices School voucher progress. |
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. |
Reason
March 2004
Lisa Snell |
Waste Not, Why Not? The Web site for the Massachusetts State Auditor's Office proudly displays the motto, "The Cruelest Tax of All Is Waste." The same agency has agreed to audit 43 of the state's charter schools for saving too much money. |
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. |
Reason
February 2002
Joanne Jacobs |
Threatened by Success One charter school's fight against the education establishment... |
Reason
November 2001 |
Backward March The image of charter schools as free-form, grassroots alternatives to public schools is getting a face lift, thanks to Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown. The former California governor has shirked his old Moonbeam ways to spearhead a publicly funded military charter school... |
Reason
February 2004
Tim Cavanaugh |
Bad Report Card Does private management of failing public schools make a difference? A recent General Accounting Office (GAO) report looked for a consistent trend, but with little success, as the data the had to work with weren't of high quality. |
The Motley Fool
August 16, 2011
Tierney Plumb |
Movie-House Investor Dives Into the Charter-School Space A real estate investment trust that works mostly in the megaplex movie-theater business is quickly learning that the charter-school industry is a smart place to put its money these days. |
IDB America
May 2002
Paul Constance |
First, help the neediest By targeting assistance to the worst-performing public schools, Chile has helped to narrow the learning gap between rich and poor |
BusinessWeek
February 4, 2010
Molly Peterson |
KIPP: Learning a Lesson from Big Business The charter school powerhouse uses motivational techniques inspired by America's top corporations, to impressive effect. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000 |
Report Highlights Benefits of Technology in Education The Software & Information Industry Association Report on the Effectiveness of Technology in Schools suggests that education technology has increased student achievement, enhanced students' self-concept and attitudes about learning, and improved educator-student interaction... |
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
February 2005
Julian Sanchez |
Negative Action The central argument is one that critics of affirmative action have long made: Students admitted to a school under looser standards are, almost by definition, less likely to be prepared to succeed once admitted, undermining whatever benefit the preference was meant to confer. |
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. |
Reason
April 2006
Lisa Snell |
The Agony of American Education How per-student funding can revolutionize public schools in the U.S. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
Lisa Snell |
Schoolhouse Crock Why George W. Bush's education reforms won't change anything... |
Fast Company
December 2008
Kate Rockwood |
The Academy for Urban School Leadership: A Teacher-Training Residency If you applied the medical-residency model to urban schools, you'd have the AUSL's teacher-training program: mentoring, grad school, 49 weeks shadowing a veteran teacher, and four years teaching in Chicago's neediest classrooms. |
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
November 2002
Lisa Snell |
Scoring High A charter school's ups and downs |
Information Today
October 29, 2013 |
Learn It Online Offers Tablets to Students Learn It Systems works with public, private, and charter schools on academic, enrichment, and specialized learning programs that reach more than 100,000 students in 200-plus school districts. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2010 |
Microsoft Lands Cloud Deal With NYC Schools As it continues efforts to entice large, public-sector organizations to sign up for its expanding portfolio of cloud services, Microsoft lands e-mail partnership with New York City schools. |
Reason
June 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Gutting D.C. School Vouchers After They Work As Predicted The Democratic Party, as part of its "omnibus" federal spending package, voted in March to end the Washington D.C.school voucher program after the 2009-10 school year. |
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
January 20, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
Video Game Prepares Texas District for State Test Austin Independent School District in Texas is expanding the use of the DimensionM educational video games to seven middle schools and 15 charter schools. |
Registered Rep.
August 26, 2013
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
School's (Not) Out Parents often assume that their children are going to finish their degrees in four years. Most of the time, it doesn't happen. |
T.H.E. Journal
July 2005 |
Closing the Achievement Gap While education stakeholders recognize the importance of closing the minority achievement gap, many still find it difficult to make and sustain progress in terms of student achievement. Technology is now proving to be the key to success. |
Registered Rep.
January 23, 2015
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
Five Secrets Colleges Are Keeping From You While universities may lure students with fancy brochures, luxury housing and scenic architecture, the reality is that colleges are high-stakes businesses preoccupied with enhancing their own prestige. |
InternetNews
January 25, 2011 |
Google Targets Education With New Apps Section Google builds on established partnerships with schools and universities to develop a separate category for education applications in its Apps Marketplace. |
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? |
Inc.
September 1, 2009
April Joyner |
Elevator Pitch: Healthy Fare for Schoolkids Monica Tomasso serves up all-natural lunches for private schools and camps with Health E-Lunch Kids, which she founded. Now, she has her sights set on public schools. |
T.H.E. Journal
November 2000 |
Embark Embark has just launched a new version of its Web site, embark.com, to help college-bound students through the college search and application process... |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2006
James Sweet |
Extreme Makeover: Computer Edition Computer refurbishers are equipping cash-strapped schools with used hardware made good as new - or even better. |
Reason
October 2004
Lisa Snell |
No Way Out The No Child Left Behind Act provides only the illusion of school choice. |
The Motley Fool
January 3, 2012
Brian Stoffel |
Was I Completely Wrong About For-Profit Education? Our analyst takes a second look at the industry's ability to disrupt. |
Reason
July 2002
Brian Doherty |
Great White Choice Many Americans cry out for Canadian-style state-financed and state-managed health care. But they might instead consider importing the Canadian approach to school choice. The experience of our neighbors to the north may point the way toward a future of better performance by poor students. |
Registered Rep.
September 27, 2010
Lynn O'Shaughnessy |
College In Four Years, Not Six Before a teenager falls in love with any colleges be sure to check their graduation rates. It could save your clients tens of thousands of dollars. |
Teacher Magazine
May 2000 |
Becoming Good American Schools Book reviews on detracking, the "feel-good" curriculum, and charter schools |
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. |
T.H.E. Journal
February 2009
Charlene O'Hanlon |
Credit Recovery Software: the New Summer School Districts are using online programs to get at-risk students back on track to graduation. |
T.H.E. Journal
September 30, 2009
David Nagel |
States Look To Raise Reading Proficiency in Title I Schools The United States Department of Education is awarding $6.61 million in grants to eight states to help improving reading achievement among poorer students. |
T.H.E. Journal
June 2004
Dave O'Toole |
West Clermont's 'Small Schools of Choice' Rely on Student Management Software to Evolve The technology team - made up of the software and people - was absolutely essential to making this two-high-schools- to-ten vision a reality. |
BusinessWeek
June 24, 2010
Louis Lavelle |
College Degrees Get an Audit New research suggests that many students might be better off, financially at least, not bothering with college at all |
BusinessWeek
September 5, 2005
Lindsey Gerde |
B-Schools With A Niche With applications falling, mid-tier business programs are crafting specialized degrees that give students the kind of targeted, real-world experience sometimes lacking in traditional MBAs. And as a strategy, it seems to be working. |
