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What is Edisons educational model, and how has it evolved?

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What is Edisons educational model, and how has it evolved?

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When Chris Whittle launched the Edison Project in 1991, he invested $50 million from his media company, Whittle Communications, to come up with a new design for public schools. When the design work was completed four years later, however, a good portion of it was put on the shelf. Originally, Whittle thought he would build 1,000 private schools to compete with public schools. His schools would feature pioneering instruction and a newly designed curriculum of “unprecedented artistry and richness.” “This was a bold, bold proposition,” says Thomas Toch, a writer who covered the Edison Project for U.S. News and World Report. After scouring the country and foreign shores for the best ideas, however, Whittle’s team scaled back its plans. “They decided that a design that was too radical, too different from schools today, wouldn’t sell,” Toch explains. After the 1994 collapse of Whittle Communications, Whittle was forced to scale back his ideas further. Instead of designing his own curricula (

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