Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first week of school this year, they found plastic boxes with mesh tops and one or two caterpillars in them. English teacher Kay Pfaffendorf and social studies teacher Cindy Farmer had taken a course on raising monarchs at the University of Minnesota in order to present a project involving not only their subjects but also math, science...
...kids found out, the project wasn't just about raising butterflies. It was about emerging from a summer cocoon, sharing their excitement with their parents and bonding with one another in their last year before high school...
...delivering the Orchard Hills school over to what has come to be called the Edison Project, Vaughn took a wager that only two other school districts in the country were prepared to risk at the time: he recommended that his board sign a contract permitting Edison to hire its own principal and teachers, manage its own budget and teach its own curriculum. In exchange the district would pay Edison about $3,600 a child, roughly the same amount it spends on its other 48,000 students. If Edison educated the children for less money, it could pocket the difference...
...first four Edison schools opened in the fall of 1995 in Wichita; Boston; Mount Clemens, Mich.; and Sherman, Texas. Three years and nearly two dozen new schools later, the debate continues. Despite warnings that privatizing public education is a recipe in which profit takes precedence over learning, the Edison Project is beginning to attract more serious consideration. Most of Edison's schools (25 altogether) are still too new to show definitive results, but initial reports from pioneers like Wichita suggest that the project may be on to something. By knitting together a new community of parents, teachers and students, Edison...
...true now, it seemed downright ludicrous in 1991, when flamboyant media entrepreneur Chris Whittle announced his grand plan to build, by 1996, a nationwide chain of 200 private schools to revitalize American public education--for $2.5 billion. Because Whittle's communications company all but imploded in 1994, the Edison Project was radically scaled back, leaving education experts skeptical, lenders leery--and Larry Vaughn in a precarious position...