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The Big U-Turn How to bring schools from the brink of doom to stellar success
By Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel; first published in Education Next. In the 1990s Continental Airlines was struggling, even more than its troubled U.S. airline peers. As the company’s then-president Greg Brenneman explained in a 1998 article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR), “Continental ranked tenth out of the ten largest U.S….
Friendly Competition Does the presence of charters spur public schools to improve?
By Bryan Hassel; first published in Education Next. Everyone has read the ubiquitous feature story about a charter school–Jane and John Q. Public and their friends, sitting around somebody’s kitchen table, dream up a different kind of school for their kids. Putting in hours of sweat equity, charging start-up costs…