“Education is unlike any other industry in the world,” Kaya Henderson, the incoming interim chancellor of the Washington, D.C., schools, told me two years ago, when I was working on a profile for her now-outgoing boss, Michelle ...READ»
Eighteen months after we profiled Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee ("The Iron Chancellor," September 2008), she still hasn't won union approval of a new contract. After the October layoffs of 266 teachers and staff, ...READ»
As the two presidential candidates fight over vouchers and charters in their third debate, DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee gets a shout-out. Where was she? "Asleep," she says. But she dismisses any talk of her becoming the next Secretary of Education as "ridiculous."READ»
No one is attacking Washington, D.C.'s stagnant culture more boldly than Michelle Rhee, head of the city's failing schools. Is there a lesson here for our nation's leaders?READ»
A reader wrote in recently to complain about the volume of green-related coverage in Fast Company. I feel obliged to respond.
Our editorial priority is not to pursue an environmental agenda. We are committed to highlighting ...READ»
Dwight Eschliman
San Francisco -- based Dwight Eschliman says his photography is an "effort to bring a bit of organization to a disorderly world." Fortunately for Eschliman, the shoot for "Oakley's Optical Illusion" was "easy, ...READ»
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. Some highlights:READ»
The Divide
The debate I wrote aboutyesterday, between the teachers-union wing of the Democratic Party and the pro-charter-school education-reform wing, is in some ways a symptom of a even deeper divide between two competing ...READ»
Washington, D.C.'s public school system has 45,000 students and an abysmal dropout rate of about 50%, typical of large cities. With a goal to remedy this dropout "catastrophe" (Gen. Colin Powell's term), while being constrained by a ...READ»
Nearly 20 years old, Teach For America (TFA) has prepared a force of 14,000 TFA alumni “to create massive and systemic changes to solve the inequities in education for students in low-income communities,” according ...READ»
With a plethora of challenges (and opportunities) facing our world, I wondered what resolutions and predictions business and social sector leaders would make for 2010. So I asked people who have a wide variety of perspectives, all of ...READ»
Want to know which business leader is reading Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You? and who's reading The Iliad? See Part I. Let's see what some other leaders in business, CSR, and nonprofits have been reading this summer. Dominique Conseil, ...READ»
