There never seems to be enough time for Q & A at events!
This was the case at our Act Now to Build the Future event on August 17th, when we simply ran out of time for all of our guests to ask questions of our panelists (see here and here for details on the event.) [...]
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For the last few months, many of my blog posts have focused on education. This was in large part because The Minneapolis Foundation is deeply committed to transforming education and supporting reform that enables all young people to learn and thrive. This can be seen in our latest strategic plan and the topics of the [...]
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I want to share a few highlights from our panel of speakers at the recent educational event Act Now to Build the Future. Our panel included Dr. Bill Green, Superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools; Bernadeia Johnson, Deputy Superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools; and Suzanne Kelly, Interim Superintendent of Saint Paul Public Schools.
Both districts are implementing [...]
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New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote a timely article on Harlem Children’s Zone. Brooks discusses a recent assessment of HCZ’s charter school, Promise Academy, which show stunning success rates.
He says, “Forgive some academic jargon, but the most common education reform ideas — reducing class size, raising teacher pay, enrolling kids in Head Start — [...]
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“In my shop, if a child does not succeed, it means the adults around him or her have failed.”
Those are the words of Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone.
Among the leading social entrepreneurs of our time, Geoffrey Canada has taken Harlem Children’s Zone from a one block pilot program in 1990 [...]
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At the same moment, two trains leave Chicago and New York. They move towards each other with constant speeds. The train from Chicago is moving at speed of 40 miles per hour, and the train from New York is moving at speed of 60 miles per hour. The distance between Chicago and New York is [...]
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The Minneapolis Foundation has a commitment to transforming education and eliminating homelessness. The cross section of these two issues creates a highly mobile population of students who are regularly switching schools or missing class altogether. I can’t imagine how a child is able to make academic progress with a lack of stability. If students are [...]
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Imagine on your first day of work walking into a board room filled with 30 of your company’s most important clients. You’re expected to present on the company’s core products. Sounds scary, right?
Ironically, this is what new teachers experience on their first day. They enter a classroom filled with our community’s most important clients: students.
After [...]
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Education Trust’s Kati Haycock pointed out that sustaining teachers is a greater challenge than recruiting them to the field, particularly for teachers working in the most challenging schools.
This is particularly problematic given that in the next 10 years, 25,000 new teachers will be needed in this country to fill vacant positions due to retirement [...]
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