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When local educators work with international entities to implement high-quality educational programs simultaneously, the world moves closer to achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4.

Lane McBride is a member of Boston Consulting Group's Public Sector and People & Organization practices as well as a member of the firm’s education leadership team in the US.

Since joining BCG in 2003, Lane has focused primarily on the education sector, spanning topics such as strategy, organization design and transformation, change management, cost efficiency, performance management, and consumer insight.

Lane’s client work has included supporting the development and implementation of the comprehensive transition plan for the largest school-district merger in US history, between Memphis City Schools and Shelby County Schools. He also led a review of state education spending for a committee appointed by the governor of Delaware and helped carry out the Academic Transformation Plan in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District.

Lane is a coauthor of a BCG paper on education cost efficiency published in Stretching the School Dollar: How Schools and Districts Can Save Money While Serving Students Best (Harvard Education Press, 2010). He is also a coauthor of several BCG publications on technology in education and K-12 resource allocation. Lane has supported BCG’s relationship with global social-impact partner Teach for All.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

EDUCATION

  • BA, government, with distinction, University of Virginia

Publications and Videos

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Reinventing Childcare for Today’s Workforce

More than half of US parents need better care options for their children. Governments, employers, providers, and philanthropies can all help.
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How Higher Ed and Employers Can Partner to Power Talent Pipelines

Relationships with colleges can help businesses land great talent, but they can be tricky to establish and navigate. Taking seven actions can make them work.
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Education as a Catalyst for Climate Progress

Education is a powerful means of spurring behavioral change and collective action, cultivating green skills, ensuring a just transition to a sustainable economy, and building communities’ adaptive capacity.
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Building Future Resilience of K-12 Schools

While COVID-19 has had adverse effects on K-12 education, it also gives educators the opportunity to create new models of teaching that ensure student success and system resilience.
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U.S. K-12 Renewal: Considerations for Driving Sustained Impact from Recovery Funds

Leaders have important decisions to make when investing in K-12 recovery funds, and understanding the risk and success factors of these investments is crucial.
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Closing the Digital Divide in US Education—for Good

Inspired collaborations among educators, business, and policymakers to close the K-12 digital divide are paving the way for a brighter postpandemic future for US education.
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Lessons from Fulbright on Developing the University of the Future

A new liberal arts institution in Vietnam found that including students and faculty in the school’s development was a major driver of success.
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What primary and secondary education leaders should prioritize in the era of COVID-19

School leaders had little time to prepare for the crisis. Careful scenario planning can help them weather the closures and reopen from a position of strength.
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Higher education response to COVID-19

Colleges and universities are on the frontlines of the outbreak. Here’s how their leaders can respond to immediate needs and plan for their institutions’ resilience.
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How to Make Teacher Effectiveness Reforms Stick

It’s not easy to manage or measure teaching performance, but a few pioneering and persevering US public-school districts are getting impressive results.
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How—and Why—US Cities Are Rethinking Early-Childhood Education

For many children, ECE programs, while worthy, are simply too little, too late. New initiatives should be more comprehensive and more collaborative, with a common goal of ensuring success for children.
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How to Help Teachers Get Better Together

School districts must close the gap between the engaging, relevant, and hands-on training that teachers and administrators want and the reality of disengagement with collaborative training on the ground.