
New schools end up like old schools
High-tech schools of the future end up looking a lot like schools of the past, writes Larry Cuban in Regression to the Mean, Part 1 and Part 2. His examples are a public middle school in New York City, called the Downtown School in a study, and School of the Future, a public high school in Philadelphia. The first had funding from technology entrepreneurs, the second from Microsoft. Disruptive Fixation: School Reform and the Pitfalls of Techno-Idealism describes the New York