IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school venture. The Stanley Litow of iBM was the key architect in design Pathways in Technology Early College High School, called P-TECH. The open enrollment high school situated in New York City's Brooklyn was established in 2011 through a joint partnership between IBM, City University of New York (CUNY), and also the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE). The revolutionary design comprised career and technical education, STEM, and early faculty. Pupils could graduate with an associate degree (basically, two free years of college) and be "first in line" for jobs at IBM.
The school was seeing exceptional consequences; one third of the inaugural class entered P TECH below grade level and almost all pupils were promoted to the 10th grade and over half of them took college courses prior to the end of their sophomore year. This case explores the motivation behind P TECH (a growing skills gap), how it was developed along with the challenges, and the focus generated by the unique school design.
PUBLICATION DATE: September 17, 2013 PRODUCT #: 314049-HCB-ENG
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