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When Education Pioneers launched in 2003, our first BHAG was to bring on 300 Fellows a year, working for outstanding partner organizations in 15 cities across the country by our 10th anniversary.

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

When I started writing about concussions - particularly the danger of second impact syndrome - twelve years ago, we were considered by no less an authority than our original concussion expert, Dr. Robert Cantu, to be the pioneers in concussion education (see video of presentation Bob Cantu made at Concord - Carlisle High School back in 2007).

When you think about the breadth of her reach to students all across the nation, the innovative educational programs she has developed and her pioneering of the education programs for both the NRAO and GBO, it is no wonder that the ASP took notice.

When pioneering educational technology advocate Jan Hawkins wrote an essay for Edutopia in 1997, «The World at Your Fingertips: Education Technology Opens Doors,» about how technology brings the tools of empowerment into the hands and minds of those who use them, she couldn't have known her words would be even more relevant today.

In February, DeVos referred to historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as «real pioneers when it comes to school choice,» failing to mention that these institutions emerged to serve black students who were being shut out of institutions of higher education that were discriminating against them.70 And President Trump has also shown a lack of appreciation for the history of racism in the country.71

NEW YORK — The recent resignations of high - profile school chiefs Joel Klein in New York and Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., raise questions about the future of education reform at a time when school districts across the U.S. are adopting policies the two icons of change pioneered.

A pioneer in civic education, the Citizenship Education Clearing House (CECH - pronounced «check») has been conducting programs in citizenship education since the late 1960s, when Teresa M. Fischer and a small group of associates launched CECH as an independent non-profit coreducation, the Citizenship Education Clearing House (CECH - pronounced «check») has been conducting programs in citizenship education since the late 1960s, when Teresa M. Fischer and a small group of associates launched CECH as an independent non-profit corEducation Clearing House (CECH - pronounced «check») has been conducting programs in citizenship education since the late 1960s, when Teresa M. Fischer and a small group of associates launched CECH as an independent non-profit coreducation since the late 1960s, when Teresa M. Fischer and a small group of associates launched CECH as an independent non-profit corporation.

When and if we find out about MassInsight's contracts, I'd like to know about Education Pioneers.

Education Pioneers works primarily in urban areas in order to have the biggest impact on underserved communities, said Ms. Angilly, and when it comes to placing fellows in schools, the distribution is split fairly evenly between charter and district - run schools.

Known since the early 1980s simply as The Law Offices of Chicago - Kent, our clinic was a pioneer in clinical legal education decades ago when it adopted a fee - generating model designed to replicate the experience of employment at a private law firm.