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Can you provide a link to the story on this? There must be more to this -- or surely some learnings. Thanks.

• Alex3917 10y ago
  Diane Ravitch writes about it here: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Great-American-School-System/dp/0465025579 https://www.amazon.com/Death-Great-American-School-System/dp... The school was called Manual High School. If you just search for "Manual" within the book on Amazon you can see at least parts of the story, around page 207.
  • Tempest1981 10y ago
    Thanks. I had assumed tech problems. Sounds like many management issues and infighting, from reading this: http://www.denverpost.com/2006/05/05/manuals-slow-death/ http://www.denverpost.com/2006/05/05/manuals-slow-death/ Excerpts: - “The Gates Foundation really screwed up by giving the grant to DPS before finding an intermediary to hold anyone accountable,” said Van Schoales, who administered the grant for the Children’s Campaign. - As more than $1 million in private funds was sunk into teacher and principal training and technical support, three feuding principals hoarded textbooks and called police on each other’s students. - The Gates Foundation now, after stories like Manual, rarely works with individual schools – preferring to collaborate with entire districts on school reform
    • Alex3917 10y ago
      It was actually mostly to do with school size. Once they got the high school down to the much smaller size they thought would be ideal, students no longer were able to participate in any of the classes or extracurriculars they wanted. So most of the students quickly came to hate school, became completely checked out, and eventually just dropped out entirely. He still hasn't paid any sort of reparations to these students, despite completely destroying their lifetime employment prospects by using them as a science experiment to stroke his own ego.