Product Description: How does one spread out a successful educational reform? The authors recount the scaleups of a variety of programs, descsribing the challenges they faced and the lessons they drew from their experiences.

Product Description: This report provides a background for these monographs. It tales advantage of Rand's unique perspective to describe the evolution of New American Schools and its strategy for reform during its first six years operation. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In April 1996, President Clinton signed an executive order intended to promote transfer of unneeded federal government computer equipment to schools and educational nonprofit organizations. The authors draw upon the successful donation experiences of established federal programs and the public sector to make recommendations for continuing implementation...read more

Product Description: The nation's most important educational goal must be to produce learners adequately prepared for life and work in the 21st century. Computer- and network-based technology will play a key role in reaching that goal. In 1983, there was about one computer for every 125 students in the nation's public schools...read more