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...Edison Project, headed by former Yale University president Benno C. Schmidt Jr., will ally private in-dustry with public education through contracts with individual school systems to reshape curriculum and administration to an Edison Project plan...
...Public-private partnerships might be a way to save public education," McGriff said. The Edison Project plans to open its first school in the Fall of 1995. Edison Project officials are cuurently pitching their design to school districts across the country...
...Edison Project would organize instruction around teams consisting of approximately four teachers per 90 students, Tracey said. Teams would be grouped together for two to four years. Under this plan, a common group of students would work for an extended period of time with the same peer group and teachers, he said...
McGriff and Tracey stressed that under the Edison Project, teachers would make more administrative decisions that affect their pupils. The Edison Program would thus direct less money to school bureaucracy, Tracey said...
Other facets of the Edison Project include greater access to computers and databases for students and teachers and more instruction time, said Tracey...