If you’re a parent or educator, where do you go for answers about K12 education? The problem isn’t too little information but too much information. And the quality varies widely – particularly when it comes to the web. How do you know what information you can trust, and how do you find it?

Welcome to schoolnet.com, the first online community designed to empower educators and parents to work together to achieve their collective goal – attainment, equity and excellence for students. Schoolnet.com not only aggregates education strategies, best practices, research, resources and tools from all over the web, but also allows the K12 community to share ideas with one end in mind – to help students achieve more:

Our goal at schoolnet.com is to become the single, most trusted education site in the world. The following features are already available or in development:

Please Tell Us What You Think and What You Want!

If you are part of the K12 community, schoolnet.com is your site as much as ours. We want to know what you think of it, and what features and content would be most useful to you. Please send your thoughts and ideas to us at contactus@schoolnet.com or check out our Community Suggestion Box.

Become a Schoolnet.com Contributor

In a few months, we hope to allow any registered schoolnet.com user to create a Viewpoint page so that they can share success stories, advice, links and other information with other users. Until we make this feature publicly available, we are looking for educators and parents to serve as charter Viewpoint contributors. If there is a topic that you are passionate and knowledgeable about and you would like to share your ideas with the schoolnet.com community check out, our editorial guidelines and send us an email at editorial@schoolnet.com. Let us know the topic you’re interested in covering, and tell us about your personal and professional background.

Management Team

Jonathan D. Harber

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

In 1998, Mr. Harber conceived and founded SchoolNet Inc., a company with the philanthropic mission to transform the world’s school systems into efficient, highly productive and exciting places for students to learn. Today, Jonathan's innovative vision is helping school districts to increase student achievement and increase institutional efficiency.

SchoolNet serves over 50 American cities that educate over 2 million students in 14 states. As a result of Jonathan’s leadership and passion SchoolNet has been recognized twice by INC. Magazine’s Inc. 500 Award and three times by Deloitte’s Fast 50 Award. In 2007, Ernst &Young recognized Jonathan with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year ® Award in the New York region

At Wesleyan University, he studied Cognitive Science and completed an Honors thesis on education technology. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harber earned his M.S. and completed a joint Master's thesis between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Sloan School of Management involving the creation of an environment for multimedia case studies.


Harber was the co-founder and president of Diva, a publisher of multimedia software, which sold over one million units around the world. Diva's flagship product, VideoShop, was used by students and teachers to create interactive-multimedia projects. Diva was acquired by Avid Technology (NASDAQ: AVID).

Jonathan was president and founder of the award-winning children's education software company KinderActive. The company created interactive reading products for young learners winning the "Teacher's Choice - Excellence in Classroom Products" Award from Learning Magazine.

Jonathan was also the co-founder and Chairman of NewKidCo the first company to develop and market children's education video games including Elmo's Letter Adventure and Elmo's Number Journey - for PlayStation and Nintendo N64. NewKidCo was acquired by SoftQuad (NASDAQ: SFQD).

Mr. Harber earned an M.S. from MIT and completed a joint Master's thesis between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Sloan School. Harber received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Cognitive Science from Wesleyan University.
As a Board member of New York City Outward Bound and Trail Blazers (not-for-profit organizations), Jonathan has actively worked to help disadvantaged youth in New York City.

A native New Yorker, Jonathan lives in New York City with his wife, daughter and son.

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Denis P. Doyle

Director, Chief Academic Officer and Co-Founder

Doyle is co-founder and Chief Academic Officer of SchoolNet. He is a nationally and internationally known education writer and consultant. His career began as a consultant to the California legislature after earning his AB and MA in political science from the University of California at Berkeley. He later joined the federal government as an Assistant Director of the US Office of Economic Opportunity where he developed major education reform projects. He was transferred by executive order to the US Office of Education where he served as an Assistant Director of the National Institute of Education. Since that time, Doyle has served in three think tanks - the Brookings Institution, the American Enterprise Institute, and Hudson Institute - where he has written over 200 articles for both scholarly and popular publications, ranging from the Atlantic Monthly to the Washington Post.

An authority on business and education, Doyle is the co-author of three major education books with CEO's:Investing in Our Children with Proctor & Gamble CEO Brad Butler, Winning the Brain Race with Xerox CEO David Kearns and Reinventing Education with IBM CEO Lou Gerstner.

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C. Andrew Johns

Chief Financial Officer

Prior to joining SchoolNet in April 2003, Johns was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for 24/7 Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: TFSM), a leading interactive marketing and technology company. Johns had joined 24/7 Media shortly after it was founded, and helped to lead the Company from $5 million to $180 million in revenues in three years with over 1,200 employees worldwide. Prior to joining 24/7 Media, Johns served for three years as the Interim CFO for Servomation International, a $35 million food services company with 700 employees in seven states across the Northeast plus Canada. Johns began his career on Wall Street, working in research with Kidder, Peabody & Co. followed by a stint as an investment banker with Dean Witter Reynolds.

Johns earned his MBA from Stanford University with concentrations in Finance and Management, after earning his B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia with concentrations in Finance and Accounting. He holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst. Johns currently volunteers as a member of the Executive Committee of Theodore Roosevelt Council, Boy Scouts of America.

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Company History

SchoolNet was founded in 1998 by Jonathan D. Harber and Denis P. Doyle, experts on the convergence of education reform and technological advances. Harber, who had been involved in retail education software, and Doyle, a former Assistant Director of the National Institute of Education, recognized the problems inherent in utilizing disparate technological platforms to meet a multitude of education challenges. Together, they developed SchoolNet Instructional Management Solutions in order to streamline education technology and create programs that were easily understood by educators.