Samuel Casey Carter
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt promotes the Common Core Curriculum.
http://www.hmhco.com/content/houghton-mifflin-harcourt-introduces-first-common-core%E2%80%93aligned-program-improve-literacy-achi
National Heritage Academies (NHA) partners with community groups to build and operate public charter schools. Founded in 1995, today NHA partners with 71 K-8 schools in eight states serving more than 44,000 students. NHA's system of schools is designed to eliminate achievement gaps and provide school choice to families so that their children are prepared for success in high school, college and beyond.
http://www.linkedin.com/company/21779?trk=prof-0-ovw-pos
The Cristo Rey Network consists of "25 high schools that provide a quality, Catholic, college preparatory education to urban young people who live in communities with limited educational options."
Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristo_Rey_Network
KIPP is "the Knowledge Is Power Program, is a nationwide network of free open-enrollment college-preparatory schools in under-resourced communities throughout the United States. KIPP schools are usually established under state charter school laws and KIPP is America’s largest network of charter schools."
Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Is_Power_Program
CfBT Education Services is a not-for-profit company registered under Sec 25 of the Indian Companies Act, 1956. We are affiliated to CfBT Education Trust, UK. Our aim is to share CfBT’s international experience and expertise in education and training with Indian schools. We create self sustaining delivery systems that raise the standards of teaching and learning through focused training and support to schools.They work primarily with practitioners to enable the all round development of young learners, often take up direct teaching assignments on request.
CfBT Education Services are committed to supporting the education of pupils and working in partnership with school correspondents/governing bodies, principals, teachers, parents, government and others involved in the operation and management of schools through a range of school improvement services. Contact C.F.B.T. Consultancy Name: C.F.B.T. Consultancy Location: 2-C, Samrat Complex, Saifabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India Contact No: 40 6625 9722, 6625 9733 Email: info@cfbtes.com Website: www.cfbtes.com
He was head of global corporate social responsibility for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and the executive director of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Foundation.
The Foundation was a corporate sponsor of Chicago Public Schools.
http://blogs.wttw.com/moreonthestory/2011/08/02/cps-back-to-school-initiatives/
He wrote as a senior fellow for the Center for Education Reform.
In the emerging landscape of education reform, the Center for Education Reform is the leading voice for structural and sustainable changes that can dramatically improve educational opportunities for decades to come. Our guiding purpose is to improve the accuracy and quality of discourse and decisions about education reform, leading to fundamental policy changes that make a difference long after news and election cycles have ended. As part of our core mission, the Center works on three primary fronts: — Generating and sharing leading ideas and information — Supporting and enabling grassroots activism — Protecting and stimulating media coverage and issue accuracy
Three daughters, 13, 11, and 9.
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