Guest Thinkers — February 16, 2011

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Dede, Honan, & Peters (Eds.). (2005). Scaling up success: Lessons from technology-based educational improvement.

How do we take successful programs and best practices serving a few classrooms or students and scale them up? This book tells us.

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Why I’m writing OUTLAST: a book about resilience (and hope)

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