Education Reform Scholar Coming to Tulsa

Tony Wagner, co-director of the Change Leadership Group at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and author of several books on 21st century teaching, skills, and education, will deliver a public lecture tomorrow at Holland Hall at 7:30 pm. The event will be held in the Branch Theatre of the Walter Arts Center, 5666 E. 81st [...]

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New Innovations in Education

Diama reminded me about a new innovation project out of Harvard called the Education Innovation Laboratory, or EdLab for short. We really should’ve copyrighted the term “innovation lab” I guess. If their project is as innovative and forward-thinking as the website, it’s going to be a great effort. From the vision statement: We believe that [...]

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Article in Today’s HBSWK

One of Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge articles today discusses the hybrid social enterprise. Excerpt: “Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy for years, and experts predict an avalanche of cash ahead. By 2052, an [...]

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Becoming a Blogger

I can’t believe I am actually blogging. It feels like riding a bike on two wheels for the first time or getting up for a minute on the wind surfer, which is the best I ever did at that. It should not be surprising that CAP is the cause for this new development in my [...]

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Welcome to the Tulsa Initiative blog!

Thanks for checking us out. As you can see, we’ve spent the past couple of weeks posting some (what we think are) interesting items and updates related to two potentially very different topics: fighting poverty, and doing innovation. The Tulsa Initiative was actually born out of a merger of the two. It was created by [...]

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