EP In the News

EP Alumna Erica Mosca's nonporfit, Leaders in Training, puts ninth-graders on collge track in elementary school internships.

Erica said,  "My life was completely changed because I had my college degree. I wanted to help other students have the same opportunities."

 

Read More About Erica and Leaders in Training Here

Three 2012 EP Fellows from the USC Price School of Public Policy talk about their summer Fellowships for USC News.

ʺThe work reminded me of why I wanted to pursue public policy in the first place - to learn skills for influencing systems and organizations to better serve disadvantaged kids. As a teacher, I heard stories from my students that showed me the need for improving their safety and access to resources outside of the classroom. With every Education Pioneer guest speaker, I learned more about the ways organizations are trying to solve the problem of the education ‘opportunity gap' for such students," said Jessica Papia.

Read more at USC News

2012 EP Fellow, Julia Houlihan is featured in the Duke Fuqua School of Business CASE Notes talking about her summer working for Teach For America.  

Julia said, "I went into Teach For America looking to develop my analytical skills and to lead upwards and sideways to ensure that the work I did could and would be utilized after my departure.  I left my summer having learned a lot and very proud of the work I did. I could not have hoped for anything better."

Read More About Julie Here

Caitlin Sullivan, a 2012 EP Summer Fellow, brings up the issue of whether or not students in our education system are developing the self-discipline, resilience, and values that set them up for fulfilling lives.

Read Her Blog Post Here

3 BMU students, Matt Roper (Texas), Sonal Dhingra (Boston), and Rachel Alexander (Boston) share insightful and diverse thoughts about their summer as EP Fellows.

Read Their Experiences Here

In this article for the Huffington Post, "A Lesson for Public Schools from Steve Jobs," Education Pioneers Alumna Anna Wong writes, ʺAs a society, we cannot afford child-serving systems that do not support every child to reach their full potential.  Every child should have the opportunities that [Steve] Jobs had to become the person that he became.ʺ

Read the article at the Huffington Post.

Felice Belle, a current MFA student at Long Island University, is featured by The GO Project as she begins her EP Fellowship. Her 10 weeks at the organization will allow her the opportunity to develop a series of tools to help teachers track and identify trends in student data trends, in addition to writing and research around best practices in the field.

Read more about Felice Here