Is School Out For Whittle
Edison, like its founder, has undergone an amazing shrinking act. Originally conceived as a national chain of private schools educating 2 million students by 2010, the project has taken on a more modest shape. By fall 1995, it hopes to take over five to 15 public schools under an “academy” system that relies on team-teaching small groups that stay together for several years, as well as individual rates of learning, big doses of high technology and a longer school day and academic year....