Education

Annie Tallent (B)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

A school board official in South Dakota is faced with a demand by local Indian tribes to change the name of the Annie Tallent School. Annie Tallent was among the first white pioneers to arrive in the Black Hills and became a leader in education...

Annie Tallent (A)

Publication Date: September 01, 1998

A school board official in South Dakota is faced with a demand by local Indian tribes to change the name of the Annie Tallent School. Annie Tallent was among the first white pioneers to arrive in the Black Hills and became a leader in education...

A Time of Reckoning: Crisis in the Buffalo Public School System: Epilogue (Abridged)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This case tracks the long series of factors--historical, political, cultural, managerial--which culminated with the prospective bankruptcy of the Buffalo (NY) public school system, in the face of a court-ordered back pay settlement with its...

Zero-Tolerance in Memphis (B)

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

School superintendent Gerry House arrives in Memphis in 1992 with an aggressive, reform agenda. Convinced that the predominantly African-American system had focused too heavily on discipline at the expense of learning, House conceives a "school...

Zero-Tolerance in Memphis (A)

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

School superintendent Gerry House arrives in Memphis in 1992 with an aggressive, reform agenda. Convinced that the predominantly African-American system had focused too heavily on discipline at the expense of learning, House conceives a "school...

Pushing the Boundaries: Redistricting the Kentwood Schools

Publication Date: July 1, 1998

The issue of racial integration in public schools has typically taken the form of controversies about busing across neighborhood lines in big cities, or proposed cross-boundary desegregation involving cities and their surrounding suburbs. The...

Focused Philanthropy: The Steans Family Foundation North Lawndale Initiative

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

The Chicago-based Steans Family Foundation decides, in 1995, to depart from its historic focus on aiding individual, needy Chicago public school students. Frustrated by the persistent perils in neighborhoods in which such beneficiaries of their...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Corporate Philanthropy (D)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Foundations (C)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Philanthropy by Individual Donors (B)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Philanthropy Industry Note: Landscape of Philanthropy in the United States (A)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

This series of contextual essays provides an overview of the history and status of philanthropic giving in the United States. Drawing on federal tax-based data, reports of the National Commission on Philanthropy and Civic Renewal, the American...

Deciding Who Decides: The Debate Over a Gay Photo Exhibit in a Madison School (C)

Publication Date: July 01, 1998

When teachers at a Madison, Wisconsin elementary school announce plans to mount a photo exhibit featuring families with gay or lesbian parents, school system superintendent Cheryl Wilhoyte faces a vexing decision. She knows well that the exhibit...