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In a lengthy article examining New York City’s education reforms, the Weekend Australian magazine (March 7, 2009) zeroed in on the Bronx Lab School (BLS), often pointed to by the city’s education-reform officials as its proudest achievement. Located in the building that formerly housed Evander Childs High School, once one of the most dangerous educational facilities in the country, BLS last year graduated 95 percent of its senior class, and all of those graduates were accepted at college. Marc Sternberg (MBA ’00) founded BLS in 2004 and has been its principal ever since. A Teach For America alumnus, Sternberg insists on teachers and a curriculum that engage his students — youngsters from the neighborhood, who are not specially selected. “The kids are the same kids who went to Evander, literally and figuratively,” noted Sternberg. “The difference-makers here are the adults.”
As a teacher, Sternberg felt that children’s education suffered from a dearth of strong school leadership, so he decided to enroll at HBS. “The core tenets of leadership that have worked for General Electric and other big corporations can make a school work as well,” he said.
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