Eric Schwarz

Overview

Eric Schwarz is the Co Founder and CEO of the College for Social Innovation which incorporated in July 2015. Eric is also Co Founder and former CEO of Citizen Schools a successful social enterprise that has scaled to a $30 million annual budget and has had a positive impact on the after school and extended learning time fields across the U.S. Among other accomplishments at Citizen Schools Schwarz and his team crafted four different degree granting partnerships with U.S. universities to offer master s degrees in education to Citizen Schools Teaching Fellows through special courses and seminars including an education reform course taught by Schwarz and others. Schwarz is also the author of the critically acclaimed book The Opportunity Equation published by Beacon Press in 2014 the co editor of The Case For 21st Century Learning a 2006 book published by Jossey Bass and the author of numerous articles and book chapters including Calling All Citizens in The New York Times best selling Waiting For Superman published in 2010 by Public Affairs.