I have always seen school reform work as the pathway to equity. (gse.harvard.edu)
For the past decade, the Wallace Foundation has focused its education philanthropy (to the tune of $ 300 million) «exclusively around the notion that to make school reform work for kids, we need to spend much more time and attention on leadership,» said M. Christine DeVita, the foundation's president. (harvardmagazine.com)
But they didn't want the Futures of School Reform working group to be just academics, so they pulled people from various circles and with differing ideologies, including academics, government officials, politicians and policy wonks, practitioners already working on reform, foundation folks, entrepreneurs, and one international deputy minister of education. (gse.harvard.edu)