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This story from Education Week profiles the endeavors of select organizations and foundations to recruit professionals with backgrounds in management, education, law, and public policy to work in school systems’ central offices. These groups believe that smart managers are as integral to turning around failing schools as improved methods of teacher and principal recruitment and development. Among these organizations are: the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation’s Residency in Urban Education; Education Pioneers, which recruits graduate students to work for a summer for urban districts, charter schools, or education reform organizations; and the Mind Trust, which is searching for education entrepreneurs with groundbreaking ideas for implementing education reform. 

Allan R. Odden, Co-Director of SMHC, is quoted in the article on the efficacy of Broad residents in urban districts. “Those individuals have been important in restructuring HR departments and systems,” said Mr. Odden, “including helping to put into place new HR information-system programs and modifying over time the policies and procedures surrounding HR programs to enhance customer service and ability of schools to select staff.”

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