Former Yale president Benno C. Schmidt Jr. will be among the leaders in business and education who will convene at the School of Management on Saturday, Nov. 9, for an all-day conference on "School-Business Connections."
Among the topics that will be explored at the conference are the private management of public schools, school-to-career transitions and school-business partnerships. "Public education is in the early stages of fundamental restructuring," contends Mr. Schmidt '63, who is now chief executive officer of The Edison Project, a private company that currently manages 12 public schools around the country. "The movement toward 'reinventing government' through public-private partnerships seems likely to have its most profound and lasting impact in reinventing public education."
In addition to Mr. Schmidt, the panelists will include Yale trustee John E. Pepper '60, chief executive officer of Procter & Gamble, who last spring served on the planning committee of the National Education Summit sponsored by the National Governors' Association; Mark Tucker '64 DRA, president of the Washington- based National Center on Education and the Economy; Roger Brown '82 M.P.P.M., founder and chief executive officer of Bright Horizons Children's Centers, a private company that manages child care centers for approximately 100,000 children across the nation; Sarah Kass '88 B.A., founder and principal of the City on a Hill Charter School in Boston; and Hilary Pennington '77 B.A., '83 M.P.P.M., president of Jobs for the Future.
In order to promote dialogue and interaction, the conference will include both roundtable discussions and plenary sessions in which the panelists will address the entire conference. "School-Business Connections" is cosponsored by the Education Student Interest Group at the School of Management and the Yale University Forum on Education, a cross-professional network of Yale alumni and other Connecticut educators committed to the development of first-rate teachers and teaching at pre-college levels.
For further information or to register, call Julie Horowitz at 203-562-6672 or Rachel Wiseman at 203-397-9457.