Thanks Frank,
I find the NPR interview most interesting and enlightening.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14206670
I can see how this was a smart move for microsoft. This school becomes the
sales model. And the company receives a great amount of free advertising
around the world for this product line. Without investing more than the
development of the product line, our purchase yields a lot of extra
benefits.
I do hope the students aren't forgotten and that some of the hopes come
true. I don't think the outcomes for the students will lessen the benefit
to the international marketing. In fact, if students don't progress well
the placement of this model in a low income district could provide a
convenient dismissal of poor outcomes.
They've already had people from around the world come to look at the school
and of course student outcomes don't even have preliminary data. But it's
the school products being sold. (The anecdotes of a single star student can
be substituted in any marketing campaigns.)
This is definitely smart for microsoft. But it will take some time before
the investors, the people of Philadelphia, will know if it was a good
investment for them.
Glenn
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] Penn schools
I'll pass but if you would like to do that research yourself, you might
start here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/phillyhi/archive/2004/02/15/73210.aspx
or here:
http://www.microsoft.com/Education/SchoolofFutureFAQ.mspx#EUB
but the question is answered definitively here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14206670
Frank
On Apr 5, 2008, at 07:56 PM, Anthony West wrote:
Thanks for updating us, Frank. So where does the money for this school
come from, in fact? How much comes from tax revenues allocated to the
School District and what is this funding source called? How much comes
from something-blabla-Gates and what is this funding source called?
I'd be very interested to learn these details and many other UC-list
readers would too. Can you check it out and get back to us?
-- Tony West
Frank wrote:
The Philly mag article made it very clear that HSOF is NOT a Gates
Foundation project:
"There are two big misconceptions about the School of the Future. The
first is that Microsoft is paying for it. The second is that it is a
Gates Foundation school, one of the thousands of high schools around
the country that have received money from Bill Gates’s philanthropic
organization. (So far, more than $1 billion has been invested.) The
foundation focuses on improving high-school graduation rates by funding
small schools of 200 to 600 students, and frequently bankrolls
technology-based initiatives. But the School of the Future is not a
Gates School. It has nothing to do with the Gates Foundation
philanthropy."
Frank
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