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Designs software for school of one. >> to identify these types of lessons and gives them a ranking and score for them. >> you can have the computer and teacher so you are trying to see which one you learn better from. >> do you know more what it would look like if it was an occasion not just a draft? >> for these very very routine-type assessments they can see where a kids strengths and weaknesses are. klein helped develop school of one when he was new york city school champion. >> use technolog...

Of world records. thats not what has him smiling. >> over the last 12 years we have had 94 percent proficiency rate across the board in concept areas. 36 percent of the students are not only proficient in reading writing and math but they are exceeding allstate standards. >> equally impressive there is no gap achieving children of different races and no different between poor and rich children. >> some at the lower end of the economic they are performing at or above those who dont have those kin...

Designs software for school of one. >> to identify these types of lessons and gives them a ranking and score for them. >> you can have the computer and teacher so you are trying to see which one you learn better from. >> do you know more what it would look like if it was an occasion not just a draft? >> for these very very routine-type assessments they can see where a kids strengths and weaknesses are. klein helped develop school of one when he was new york city school champion. >> use technolog...

Change was necessary for us to meet the challenges and needs of the young people we serve. >> we have had teachers who said i cant image going back to the old world that we were teaching and wishing and hoping and guessing. >> when you cut the teaching staff you saw then a jump in terms of your size of classrooms. it went from about 17 students per class to about 30 students per class. you are telling us that this in fact has led to better results, higher levels of achievement for your students....

Gaed than a -- engaged than a class instruction of waiting to respond. they are reading paper novels. they are responding on the computer. every student was corresponding back and forth on their laptops. they didnt have to wait their turn. the quiet reserved students couldnt sit back and not participate. >> we are closer to our teachers because theres something else for us to connect with. in our previous school district there wasnt as much for us to connect with. >> they put us in groups instea...

Teachers began to teach differently. they began to develop new strategies. we cut in half the functional adversity rate in the state. >> we went to rosemont elementary school in orlando to see how the school turned itself around and became a model of school reform. it took new principal patty harrison and devoted teachers. >> 70 percent were not liviread on grade level. i said give me the names of the coaches and music teacher. i am the new principal you also teach reading now. >> without readin...

Thats not what has him smiling. >> over the last 12 years we have had 94 percent proficiency rate across the board in concept areas. 36 percent of the students are not only proficient in reading writing and math but they are exceeding allstate standards. >> equally impressive there is no gap achieving children of different races and no different between poor and rich children. >> some at the lower end of the economic they are performing at or above those who dont have those kind of disadvantages...

Designs software for school of one. >> to identify these types of lessons and gives them a ranking and score for them. >> you can have the computer and teacher so you are trying to see which one you learn better from. >> do you know more what it would look like if it was an occasion not just a draft? >> for these very very routine-type assessments they can see where a kids strengths and weaknesses are. klein helped develop school of one when he was new york city school champion. >> use technolog...

To come back and work here. i am not going to leave you. >> why are these young students so excited about schools and learning? >> it is one of the best things across the country right now. >> michael horn is coauthor of the book "disrupting class." he defines learning of integration learning of computer based instruction with traditional teaching. >> tz on-line learning in a cool structure. doesnt look anything like school. >> one of the main concepts we are doing is empowering students to take...

Meet the challenges and needs of the young people we serve. >> we have had teachers who said i cant image going back to the old world that we were teaching and wishing and hoping and guessing. >> when you cut the teaching staff you saw then a jump in terms of your size of classrooms. it went from about 17 students per class to about 30 students per class. you are telling us that this in fact has led to better results, higher levels of achievement for your students. why? >> i refer to our teacher...