Education

LasTesis and the New Feminist Anthem: Performing against Moral Violence in Chile and Beyond

Publication Date: November 17, 2022

In 2019, over ten thousand women took the streets in Chile to engage in a collective performance called Un Violador en Tu Camino (“A Rapist in Your Path”). Similar to a flash mob, the crowds chanted and moved in sync, demanding an...

"Doing Something with Nothing" Trying to Make Kampala's Primary Schools Healthier and Safer Practitioner Guide

Publication Date: July 19, 2022

This practitioner guide accompanies HKS Case 2238.0. By late 2012, well into Jennifer Musisi’s second year as executive director of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), city revenues were improving. But there was little in...

"Doing Something with Nothing" Trying to Make Kampala's Primary Schools Healthier and Safer

Publication Date: July 19, 2022

By late 2012, well into Jennifer Musisi’s second year as executive director of the Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), city revenues were improving. But there was little in the budget for schools, and no further assistance was...

An Intractable Challenge? HIV Among Adolescent Girls and Young Women in Zambia

Publication Date: March 4, 2022

This multimedia case is set in the Southern African country of Zambia, where the rates of HIV new infections, especially among adolescent girls and young women, remain high in spite of recent government efforts. After laying out the history of...

United States Department of Education: Launching the College Scorecard, a Digital Service

Publication Date: October 20, 2021

The goal of the case is to understand how to design, build, and engage with digital technologies as they relate to civic participation, equity, governance, and accountability. Delivering critical services to the public requires building...

Cuna Más: Peru’s Home Visiting Program Evolves into a Comprehensive Early Childhood Development Strategy

Publication Date: May 5, 2021

The first case in this series describes the creation and initial expansion of Cuna Más, a national home visiting program in Peru. This second and final case in the series picks up a few years after Cuna Más was launched and charts...

Crianca Feliz: Brazil’s Ambitious Early Childhood Program

Publication Date: April 30, 2021

In October 2016, Brazil launched one of the largest home visiting programs in the world—Criança Feliz (or Happy Child). The flagship program aimed to reach the country’s most vulnerable pregnant women and young children. Even...

Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville Practitioner Guide

Publication Date: March 19, 2021

This Practitioner Guide accompanies HKS Case 2215.0. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Louisville, Kentucky, found itself in the middle to the back of the pack among peer cities along a number of key measures of prosperity and quality of...

Change at the Speed of Trust: Advancing Educational Opportunity through Cross-Sector Collaboration in Louisville

Publication Date: March 19, 2021

At the turn of the twenty-first century, Louisville, Kentucky, found itself in the middle to the back of the pack among peer cities along a number of key measures of prosperity and quality of life. Since then, two consecutive mayors had advanced...

Pratham: The Challenge of Converting Schooling to Learning in India

Publication Date: November 18, 2020

This multimedia case brings video, text, and graphics together to offer a rare, immersive experience inside one of the developing world's most pressing challenges, low levels of learning. Pratham, counted among India's largest non-profits, has...

The Boston Public Schools' Student Assignment Process

Publication Date: August 27, 2018

The assignment of students to schools is often a controversial process that requires a delicate balance between operational needs (school capacity and costs) and student and community needs (quality of school and community cohesion). In 2016,...

District of Columbia Public Schools: Politics, Jobs, Race, Children & Reform

Publication Date: May 25, 2018

After nearly four years of controversial reform that included layoffs, school closures and battles with the Washington Teachers’ Union over tenure and seniority, Michelle Rhee resigned as Chancellor of DC Public Schools on October 13, 2010...