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Stephen Downes

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Overview article describing the decline and fall of the failed initiative in Philadelphia that saw a private contractor, Edison Schools, obtain and then mishandle a contract to manage 20 schools in the city. Running a school like a corporation looks a lot less attractive today than it did a year ago as administrators ask the questions they should have listened to a year ago: what happens if the initiative fails?

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