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Lessons from the National Alliance of Business Compact Project: Business and Public Education Reform

Carroll School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02167.

This paper reports on some of the key outcomes of the National Alliance of Business's Compact Project, a 12-city demonstration project intended to establish collaborations among businesses, public schools, and government. Factors related to problem recognition, definition and crystallization, the macroenvironmental context, and the emergence of a systemic orientation toward school improvement are associated with more and less successful outcomes. Reframing processes pervade development of a vision about education, the ways in which institutions relate to each other, as well as their orientation toward solving educational problems. More successful cities in the project adopted a systemic approach rather than more limited programmatic efforts to change the schools.

Key Words: collaboration • public-private partnership • education reform refraining

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