Filed Under: Education

Published on: Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Six-Figure Hotline: Network Past Education Bias

Posted By: Dave Opton
Filed Under: execunet, executive job search, dave opton, six-figure hotline, career change, bias, education, hr

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As part of ExecuNet membership, I conduct a weekly teleconference called Six-Figure Hotline where members call in to ask the questions keeping them up at night, and to gain market and trend insight from the career experts who join me in talking about issues that are important to executives today.

An ExecuNet member asked: "After over 15+ years of a successful career as a procurement specialist, considered a lobbyist/partner within the law firms where I was affiliated in DC, I am changing careers to business development and want to work in-house. Although I have worked with corporate CEOs, Presidents and Emirs, I find that my lack of formal education stops my application when it hits HR. I'm frustrated because in my field it's about delivery and not about your degree. How do I overcome this challenge?"

Published on: Monday, November 29, 2010

Realizing Educational Opportunities for All

Posted By: Joseph Daniel McCool
Filed Under: world innovation forum, joseph daniel mccool, opportunity, education, wendy kopp, teach for america

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"The power and potential of an excellent education is limitless." From that guiding principle, Wendy Kopp, chief executive officer and founder of Teach For America, has created a vision for enabling the potential of children in schools around the world.

Twenty-one years into her own learning process about what it takes to provide an outstanding education, Kopp says the most salient lesson has been the inherent solvability of the problem Teach For America is trying to address. "The most motivating lesson in our work is that [educational inequity] doesn't have to be. All kids can have a decent education, and that's what fuels our work in this area," Kopp said at the 2010 World Innovation Forum, where ExecuNet exclusively reported for attendees.

Published on: Tuesday, September 28, 2010

A Lesson in Courage

Posted By: Dave Opton
Filed Under: dave opton, education, courage, nightly news, teacher, town hall

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As most know by now, NBC has sponsored a national conference on education called Education Nation. "Pretty cool idea," I thought. God only knows the more air time we can give to this subject the better. When one is looking at stats that tell us 68 percent of eighth graders cannot read at grade level, it is just one more "factoid" in the mountain of evidence that underscores the crisis in our public education system.

For those of you who didn't catch the segment on Nightly News, check out the comments of this young teacher who got up at the Teacher Town Hall and in just a moment or two really focused on the elephant in the room. It took real courage for her to say what she said.