{"id":546921,"date":"2010-04-29T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T14:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.harvard.edu\/gazette\/?p=43885"},"modified":"2010-04-29T10:00:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T14:00:46","slug":"five-from-harvard-win-dcps-case-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546921","title":{"rendered":"Five from Harvard win DCPS case competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/dcps.dc.gov\/portal\/site\/DCPS\/\">District of Columbia Public Schools<\/a> (DCPS) has announced that a team of five <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard<\/a> graduate students \u2014 Jonathan Bailey, Christopher Cummings, Marvin Figueroa, Kendall Fitch, and Hanseul Kang \u2014 were named the 2010 winners of <a href=\"http:\/\/dcps.dc.gov\/DCPS\/Parents+and+Community\/Urban+Education+Redesign+Challenge\">The Urban Education Redesign Challenge<\/a>, for their public engagement and mobilization strategy for DCPS.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is a case competition, showcasing a critical and pressing issue and offering graduate students the opportunity to propose innovative solutions and strategies within the context of urban education reform at DCPS.<\/p>\n<p>The Harvard team\u2019s first-place finish comes with a $5,000 prize, a meeting with the DCPS Chancellor Michelle Rhee, and an offer to join the Urban Education Leaders Internship Program for the summer, which comes with a stipend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) has announced that a team of five Harvard graduate students \u2014 Jonathan Bailey, Christopher Cummings, Marvin Figueroa, Kendall Fitch, and Hanseul Kang \u2014 were named the 2010 winners of The Urban Education Redesign Challenge, for their public engagement and mobilization strategy for DCPS. The challenge is a case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}