Scaling Up Success

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Drawing from the information presented at conference sponsored by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium, leading educators, researchers, and policymakers, Scaling Up Success translate, theory into practice and provide, a hands-on resource that clearly describes different models for "scaling up" success. This important resource is filled with illustrative examples of best practices that are grounded in real-life case studies of technology-based educational innovation¾from networking a failing school district in New Jersey to using computer visualization to teach scientific inquiry in Chicago. Scaling Up Success show how the lessons learned from technology-based educational innovation can be applied to other school improvement efforts.

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Chris Dede

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"Scaling Up Success tackles one of the greatest challengesfacing school districts: How do we take successful programs andbest practices serving a few classrooms or students and scale themup to serve schools throughout the district? Using innovations intechnology as an example, the essays take a thoughtful andwell-documented look at the issues facing districts and the ways inwhich scaling up can be accomplished. This book brings togethersome of the best education authors and researchers and provides acompelling study on how districts can scale up technology-basededucational innovations as well as for how any innovation or policymight be spread to every student and school." --Thomas W. Payzant, superintendent, Boston Public Schools "A thoughtful and important update on the power and potential ofinformation technology in education, and a must-read for anyonewondering if the computer revolution can and should make it to ournation's classroom." --Michael J. Feuer, executive director, Division of Behavioral andSocial Sciences and Education, The National Academics "Scaling Up Success offers two important benefits. First,the authors provide very useful and interesting examples oftechnology-based innovations. Second, the authors'discussions of the challenges involved in taking improvements toscale have relevance beyond technology." --Susan Fuhrman, dean, Graduate School of Education, University ofPennsylvania "Scaling Up Success includes an impressive array ofauthors in one volume and provides key lessons learned on thereform scale up process, and on the transfer technologicalinnovations in particular." --Amanda Datnow, Rossier School of Education, University ofSouthern California
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