Educational Partnerships Quotes

I am most proud of what sfCiti has accomplished with the 'Circle the Schools' program, which engages companies to enter into long-term partnerships with San Francisco public schools, using an adopt-a-school model.

Collaborate with people you can learn from

Future public education will require involvement and collaboration among various local, civic, private and nonprofit entities, a concept I like to refer to as 'community entrepreneurship.'

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

I wanted to find ways for colleges and universities to become involved with public schools to help young people prepare for college.

It's not so unusual for me to have a week of meetings that includes not only my employees, not only my customers, not only media, but could also include principals of local K-12 schools; it could include non-governmental organizations or nonprofit organizations or members of the community.

Literally from the moment I came in the door of MIT, it was very clear that a highly productive 40-year partnership between U.S. research universities and the federal government was badly eroding.

A university should not be an island where academics attain higher and higher levels of knowledge without sharing any of this knowledge with its neighbours.