Word: edisonizing
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...Barrett says the radical change embodied in Christopher Whittle's Edison Project--which would create a chain of affordable private schools nationwide--will rob the public schools of its middle-class "customer base...
Schmidt says he left because of the exciting opportunity he was offered as the head of the Edison Project, which would be the first national, for-profit system of private schools in the United States...
...president of Yale will be in charge of developing the school system, which will provide education at costs equivalent to those of public schools. The project, a partnership of Whittle Communications, Time Warner Inc., Phillips Electronics, N.V. and Associated Newspapers Holding Limited, will change the way Americans are educated, Edison officials...
...inner-city enterprise zones, in which businesses would receive tax breaks and other incentives, may not be enough to draw employers into the dangerous world of drugs and violent crime that chronic poverty has created. After the Watts riots of 1965, Howard Allen, senior board member of Southern California Edison, was active in trying to lure manufacturing to the inner city. This time he is more pessimistic. To him it seems that the obstacles to attracting job-creating enterprises are more firmly entrenched than they were 25 years ago. Says Allen: "We are heading in the direction whose only definition...
...19th century spectacles. They are celebrations of human (or, anyhow, bourgeois capitalist) confidence, of mechanical ingenuity, of rationality, of progress. The first was staged in London's Crystal Palace in 1851, just as the 19th century was really becoming the 19th century. At the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876, Edison exhibited his phonograph, Bell his telephone and Underwood his typewriter...