Past Inductees

Dr. Ernest Fleishman
Senior Vice President, Education
Scholastic Inc.
2007

Dr. Ernest B. Fleishman is the Senior Vice President for Education for Scholastic Inc., one of the nation's largest publishers and distributors of children's books, classroom and professional magazines, educational software, and instructional materials.

Dr. Fleishman's role at Scholastic includes developing company-wide strategic initiatives with school districts, government agencies and corporations. He directs the company's professional relations with the schools and with major educational organizations and carries out the company's business/education partnerships including the connection with the National Alliance of Business. He oversees Scholastic's participation in the newly developed sponsorship of the National Teacher of the Year program, conducted by Scholastic and the Council of Chief State School Officers. In addition, Dr. Fleishman chairs Scholastic's National Advisory Council. Dr. Fleishman is also Publisher of America's Agenda, Scholastic's publication for top leaders in education, business and government.

Previously at Scholastic, Dr. Fleishman supervised all creative and editorial efforts of Scholastic's 30 classroom magazines, and the Company's Educational Marketing Group. Dr. Fleishman's background includes more than 30 years in education. He began as an English teacher in New High School, Newton, Massachusetts. Dr. Fleishman was the Assistant to the Superintendent of Pittsburgh Public Schools while also serving as the Director of Project Upward Bound and Lecturer in Education at Carnegie-Mellon University. From 1968-1976, he served as Superintendent of Schools for Ridgewood, New Jersey and the Central Bucks School District in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. He served as Superintendent of Schools in Greenwich, Connecticut from 1976-1989.

Dr. Fleishman received his B.A. from Williams College, and his M.A., Teaching of English, and Ed.D. in Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Williams College in 1984.