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• 04 Aug 09
  

  Gabriela Guzmán

  Una de las experiencias más bullada fue la de las Escuelas del Futuro de Microsoft en Filadelfia. A tres años de la inauguración se transforma en una valiosa experiencia respecto de las lecciones a aprender para no caer en los mismos errores. En inglés.

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• 17 Jun 09
  

  Qien Kuen

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• 13 Jun 09
  

  paul reid

  When it opened its doors in 2006, Philadelphia's School of the Future (SOF) was touted as a high school that would revolutionize education: It would teach at-risk students critical 21st-century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing project-based learning, technology, and community involvement. But three years, three superintendents, four principals, and countless problems later, experts at a May 28 panel discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) agreed: The Microsoft-inspired project has been a failure so far.

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• 11 Jun 09
  

  Julia Hengstler

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  Kristen Kozloski

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  James Gates

  Interesting read about assumptions, a well-meaning program, and the lessons learned

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  Tania Sheko

  Article about the failure of the School of the Future

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• 10 Jun 09
  

  Fred Delventhal

  "We naively thought, I guess, that by providing a beautiful building and great resources, these things would automatically yield change. They didn't,"

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  • "We naively thought, I guess, that by providing a beautiful building and great resources, these things would automatically yield change. They didn't,"
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  Ryan Bretag

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• 03 Jun 09
  

  Diane Kasaczun
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  Roslyn F. Williams

  When it opened its doors in 2006, Philadelphia's School of the Future (SOF) was touted as a high school that would revolutionize education: It would teach at-risk students critical 21st-century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing project-based learning, technology, and community involvement. But three years, three superintendents, four principals, and countless problems later, experts at a May 28 panel discussion hosted by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) agreed: The Microsoft-inspired project has been a failure so far.

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  Karen McMillan

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  Roger Zuidema

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  • It would teach at-risk students critical 21st-century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing project-based learning, technology, and community involvement.
  • The Microsoft-inspired project has been a failure so far.
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  • • several cautionary lessons in school reform--and panelists wondered if the school could use these lessons to succeed in the future.
    • Educators' participation in the project was confirmed only weeks before the school opened..." Having once helped open an innovative public school, the lapses in judgment in this project are obvious.
• 02 Jun 09
  

  Peg Maddocks

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• 01 Jun 09
  

  Richard Smyth

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  Brad Ovenell-Carter
  • It would teach at-risk students critical 21st-century skills needed for college and the work force by emphasizing project-based learning, technology, and community involvement.
  • "We naively thought, I guess, that by providing a beautiful building and great resources, these things would automatically yield change.

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