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- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- Fernando M. Reimers
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Valerie L. Denomy
- Fernando M. Reimers
- Background: The Evolution of Education
- “All schools need to be good enough for our kids.”
- Mitchell Chester
- Equipping Students with 21st Century Skills
- Oon Seng Tan
- Pasi Sahlberg
- The Role of Advanced Leaders
- Education for Competitiveness and Citizenship
- Opening Remarks
- Session B - Systemic Improvement and Human Resources
- Session C – Engaging Communities for Education
- Wrap-up
- Sergio Cárdenas professor, Center for Economic Research and Teaching, Mexico
- Janice Chong Buddy sySTEM, Student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Vice president and Senior Advisor, Jobs for the Future
- Rahsaan King Student, Harvard College
- Oon-Seng Tan professor, Director, National Institute of Education, Singapore
- James p. Honan, Co-Chair and Senior Associate Director
- Rakesh Khurana, Co-Chair
- Fernando M. Reimers, Co-Chair
- peter Brown Zimmerman, Co-Chair
- Robert H. Mnookin, Executive Board
- Forest l. Reinhardt, Executive Board
- Guhan Subramanian, Executive Board
- lezli Baskerville
- Elizabeth Bruce
- Bruce Cohen
- Mary louise Cohen
- John Conley
- patricia Cossío
- John Dubinsky
- Jeffrey Dunn
- Juan Carlos l. Fernandez
- Susan McManama Gianinno
- Jeffrey T. Gilling
- Carol Goss
- Ronald B. Grais
- Arjun Gupta
- Andrés Hidalgo
- Robin Howlings
- Margaret Huber
- Kathy Hurley
- Carol Johnson
- James J. Kozlowski
- peter H. McNerney
- Jorge Moran
- Carrin patman
- patricia Ramsay
- Arthur J. Reimers
- luis Rodriguez-Ovejero
- Guy Rolnik
- Michael Rubenstein
- Inge Skjelfjord
- Gillian Sorensen
- Mark Sterling
- Mary Green Swig
- Steven l. Swig
- Torsten Thiele
- Waide Warner
- Marissa C. Wesely
- Howard Fischer (2014 Senior Al Fellow)
- Nina lahoud (2014 Senior Al Fellow)
- paul W. lee (2014 Senior Al Fellow)
- William A. plapinger (2014 Senior Al Fellow)
A synthesis of ideas from the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative Think Tank
Ford Foundation Professor of International Education Director of the Global Education and International Education Policy Program Harvard Graduate School of Education Co-Chair, Advanced Leadership Initiative
Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School
Managing Director, Advanced Leadership Initiative valerie_denomy@harvard.edu
“Education for the 21st Century,” a multi-day, innovative Think Tank chaired and led by Fernando Reimers, Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor and Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Co-Chair, featured distinguished Harvard faculty and over 30 panelists, speakers, students, educators, and national and global experts. Participants, brou...
“Public Education is a product of the Enlightenment, schools for all were created to allow ordinary people to become architects of their own lives and contributing members of their communities, people who could improve themselves and the world, and in so doing reduce human sufering.” fernando M. Reimers, Professor, Harvard Graduate school of...
Deb Delisle, U.s. Undersecretary of education Tufts professor Amar Bhide suggested that the top half of all schools in the U.S. provide a good education for the knowledge-based economy, but the bottom half, the bottom quarter, and particular-ly the bottom 10% are terrible. Students do not begin at the same starting point or have the same opportunit...
We need to educate all students . . . we can be doing better.” Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts Commission of Education A global gap and a citizenship gap. Several panelists mentioned that the U.S. educational system is not teaching or training students to participate in democracy, and is not equipping students to be part of this global world. M...
“Does the cur-riculum focus on skills that mat-ter? Are schools teaching what is appropriate and preparing stu-dents for what is needed at work? . . . Schools need to step up their eforts to help students gain the cognitive, interpersonal and intraperson-al skills they will need to become architects of their own lives.” fernando M. Reimers, Harvard...
“The key to Singapore’s educational system is systemic coherence—an alignment between govern-ment, schools, and teachers.” - Oon Seng Tan, Professor, Director, National Institute of Education, Singapore “There is now in Finland a culture where inerna-tionalization is a normal part of the entire curric-ulum.” Pasi sahlberg, Visiting Pro-fessor, ...
adopt a common curriculum for all students. The country also decid-ed to close teacher training schools and to raise the bar for teachers by moving teaching into universities. There are now 10 applications for every teaching vacancy. Of all countries in the world, social class background in Finland is least predictive of academic performance, varia...
The problems in the educational system are deep and complex. Solutions require innovation and thinking outside the building (which goes far beyond thinking “out of the box”). Advanced Leaders don’t provide one-of solutions; they form cross-sector, multi-stakeholder coalitions that bring multi-ple people and organizations together to solve society’s...
Speaker: Fernando Reimers Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Co-Chair, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
Speaker: Fernando Reimers Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Co-Chair, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
Co-leaders Andrés Alonso Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Paul Toner President, Massachusetts Teacher Association
Co-leaders: M. Charito Kruvant President, Creative Associates Richard Weissbourd Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Fernando Reimers Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education Co-Chair, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
Sergio Cárdenas is professor in the Department of Public Administration at the Center for Economics Research and Teaching (CIDE), located in Mexico City. A graduate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he has been a lead researcher in several projects, including the design and evaluation of technology-based school interventions, a nationa...
Janice Chong is an Ed.M. candidate studying International Education Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the founder of buddy sySTEM, a global online engineering program for the elementary level. Prior to her studies at Harvard, Chong was an elementary school teacher in Fairfax County, VA, where she taught engineering to secon...
Nancy Hofman is a Vice President and Senior Advisor at Jobs for the Future, a national non-profit in Boston focused on improving educational and workforce outcomes for low-income young people and adults. Dr. Hofman is co-lead of the Pathways to Prosperity State Network with Bob Schwartz (HGSE). Hofman has held teaching and administrative posts at...
Before Harvard, Rahsaan King attended Chinquapin Prep, a college prep boarding school for Houstonian students from antagonistic communities. There, Rahsaan was named a Gates Millennium Scholar and a Ron Brown Scholar, amongst other academic distinctions. In high school, Rahsaan was blessed with opportunities to gain corporate work experience and ex...
Oon-Seng Tan is Full Professor of Education and Director-Designate at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He is also the Dean of Teacher Education. Professor Tan has been President of the Educational Research Association of Singapore (ERAS) and President of the Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA). He...
James P. Honan has served on the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Education since 1991. He is also a faculty member at the Harvard Kennedy School and a principal of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. He is Educational Co-Chair of the Institute for Educational Management and has also been a faculty member in a number of Harvard’...
Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He teaches a doctoral seminar on Management and Markets and The Board of Directors and Corporate Governance in the MBA program. Khurana received his BS from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York and his AM (Sociology) and PhD in Organization Beha...
Fernando Reimers is the Ford Foundation Professor of International Education and Director of the Global Education and International Education Policy Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Professor Reimers focuses his research and teaching on identifying education policies that support teachers in helping low-income and marginalized c...
Peter Brown Zimmerman is Lecturer in Public Policy and Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Program Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. He also serves as faculty Chair of the Senior Executive Fellows Program and is Co-Chair of the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He is a graduate of the Kennedy School’s Public Policy program. Before coming to ...
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
William A. Plapinger has been a partner of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, most recently in the firm’s London ofice. Cassie Murray joined William A. Plapinger as an Advanced Leadership Partner.
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