Cincinnati, OH (Vocus) 27 September 2010

KnowledgeWorks has named veteran telecommunications executive Brian Ross President of the Cincinnati-based organization of national education reform.

Ross, 52, and KnowledgeWorks board member since 2007, takes the title is founding president of the CEO Chad P. Wick, managing director. Ross will succeed in the daily operations of the organization and help KnowledgeWorks profit quickly across the country to its portfolio of innovative school.

â? Not many people I speak are satisfied with the current school system in the United States, â? Said Ross, who began his career as a professor of economics. ???????? A and if you look at recent statistics show that 30 percent of American students in public schools fail to complete a diploma and we remain the world in mathematics and science was – thatâ? ? s just not acceptable.â ????

Ross, spent 13 years at Cincinnati Bell? including four years as CFO and two years as Chief Operating Officer – said he was happy to help transform KnowledgeWorks work in a social enterprise to education by increasing the number of innovative high schools designed to improve and implemented by the Organization

â? Why are we still with the â? Little Red School House? Model for education for the students of the 21st Century? â? Said Ross. â? todayâ? s students are tomorrow? s leaders in the labor market need to know how to think critically, work in teams and know that a high value on accountability to their> peers.â ????

Chairman Joseph P. Tomaine, Dean Emeritus and Wilbert and Helen Ziegler Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati, said the CEO is enthusiastic about Ross and his long-term management of the company.

â? Brian brings tremendous business acumen and KnowledgeWorks has an excellent understanding of how our organization as a social enterprise function, changing the nature of learning environments that prepare our students for the future, can one? ? Tomaine said.

Wick said Rossa? Experience at the head of a national telecommunications KnowledgeWorks help to define the nature of learning in the 21st Century that the student needs in increasingly complex global economy.

â? We are satisfied that the Board Briana? s caliber on board to help us implement some of the best ideas for the future of training for concrete results on the ground â? in this case? aggressively expand our portfolio of innovative public school that the next generation> learning.â ????

Ross is from Cincinnati, and earned a bachelor? an MA in Economics and Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Miami. He received a MAA? A master’s degree in statistics at the University of California.


KnowledgeWorks

operates more than 80 schools in 21 countries through its network of technology and its subsidiaries EdWorks. It also contains two additional branches and Endeavour Ohio Education Matters. Try to support the career strategy to offer them all to bring to a community? S resources contribute to the solution of their problems in education are greatest. Ohio Education Matters with turning to education in Ohio through research, awareness, commitment and political development, the other to make the necessary changes in the system today to prepare for Ohio inspired? ? S children for the future.

KnowledgeWorksâ? Approach to student learning from its plant in Ohio, where he was one of the most ambitious nation-high school reform efforts with the Ohio High School Transformation Initiative and developed the development of the Early College High School. The effort had a positive impact on more than 50,000 students and 2,000 teachers trained in school districts in Ohio, the most difficult. School structure, teacher recruitment and support programs, assessment, community involvement – all of them to the students

built.

EdWorks team has established over 90 schools and has launched more than 40 start-up schools in the process of recovery as well as schools in Detroit, Baltimore, Tennessee and Washington.

In 2009, acquired KnowledgeWorks Napa, California, New Tech network, which runs schools identified project-based learning in the classroom with 1:1 computing environments. Unlike students in traditional schools where most teachers use textbooks and teaching approach, teachers in the schools of New Tech High design rigorous, practical projects related to state standards and district and their personal situation and interests of students.


KnowledgeWorks

extended network of New Tech High School more than 50 percent last year to 62 public schools in 14 states, so that New-Tech one of the fastest growing high transformation of models studies in the United States.


KnowledgeWorks

brings the future of learning in America? s high schools and distributed it, lasting change in communities and countries we serve. Our portfolio of approaches to secondary includes New Tech High School network, overhaul EdWorks school, science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and Early College High Schools.


Byron McCauley

Contact

(513) 929-1310

mccauleyb (at) KnowledgeWorks (dot) org

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