Title: Scaling up Success : Lessons from Technology-Based Educational Improvement
Publisher: Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0787976598
ISBN 13: 9780787976590
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.
Condition: Very Good
Weight: 1.173 pounds

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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 innovation�from 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 is the Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

James P. Honan is a lecturer on education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Laurence C. Peters currently directs the Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education (MAR*TEC) based at Temple University, Philadelphia. Prior to taking this position, he was a senior education policy advisor for the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton Administration.

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