Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overall K-12 spending, some schools serving poor kids might, if three years of state tests show they really stink and aren't improving, see their federal (and some state) cash given instead to parents in $1,500 chunks to use as they see fit. Forget whether the idea is sound or not: the one sure thing is, it's so modest that it won't accomplish much of anything...
Over a cup of coffee in Cambridge's Henrietta's Table, Carr modestly describes "a company called Prodigy" and "a new idea for doing voice mail," preferring not to draw attention to how he helped develop the technology that forms the backbone of communication through a company called Boston Technology...
Once back at Harvard, Brown says he and Khazei began to pursue the idea of a national service program with more vigor. They began meeting weekly with a professor at the Kennedy School of Government, who would go on to serve as mentor for many years...
Brown says working with HLS faculty members, such as University Professor Frank I. Michaelman, introduced him and Khazei to the idea of civic republicanism, a theory about creating civic virtue among all people, not just the elite...
...That idea has since become Mascot Network Inc--a 23-person company that reaches 20,000 students. It has a Harvard-educated president and CEO, and a fifth of its employees have a degree from the University...