Tag: Education
Student Retention: There’s An App for That
In business schools around the country, there’s much ado about social entrepreneurship and a double bottom-line—social good and profits.
Funding for Education—the Perils of “Guidelines du Jour”
The work of charities in almost all circumstances requires focused effort over a substantial period of time.
Creativity in Action
To answer many of the social welfare and public health problems of today it takes creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Opening Up Pathways to Secondary Education
We need to put secondary education on the global policy agenda. We also must create pathways to quality and relevant secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Rich Get Richer, Once More
If institutions of higher learning want to maintain their tax-favored status, they should abolish legacy preferences.
Learning, Earning, and Saving
Last week, I spent time talking and listening to more than 100 women and adolescent girls assisted by the MasterCard Foundation’s partnership with BRAC. This program is scaling access to microfinance as well as education, training and support services across Uganda to help two million people improve their livelihoods. More than 95 percent of microfinance members are women, and about 40 percent of them are young, between the ages of 18 to 30 years. I asked them for ideas about what they need to overcome poverty, and what kind of opportunities they seek... (continue reading this blog post)
Tipping Point for A National Movement for ECE Shared Services
I am concluding my series on Shared Services Alliances in the Early Childhood Education (ECE) industry with this fourth posting on the National Shared Services Technical Conference which I attended in Philadelphia, Sept. 20-21st. This conference drew about 200 participants from all over the country, including intermediaries, government representatives, private donors, and of course, ECE agencies and family businesses, from New Hampshire to Washington state, Mississippi to Michigan, and everywhere between. Participants included newcomers to the concept of Shared Service Alliances, and people steeped in the experience. The first question people usually asked each other was: Are you forming an alliance in your community?
It was such an exciting conference to attend because I got the real sense that the movement... (continue reading this blog post)
Kids Can’t Wait
2008 was supposed to be the Year of Education in our national civic life. Despite a $60 million “Ed in ‘08” campaign funded by the Gates and Broad Foundations, we never really had a broad public debate about public education during that election year.
Maybe Hollywood’s ability to tell a compelling story will be more successful at putting the spotlight on public education in America. “Waiting for ‘Superman’”, a film by Davis Guggenheim, Academy-award winning director of “An Inconvenient Truth,” opened in New York and Los Angeles on September 24, and will be released more widely on October 8... (continue reading this blog post)
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