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The Hanau Model Schools Partnership models ways that school communities can bring technology into classrooms to support the best classroom practices while deepening students understanding of content. The goal is to employ technology to meet the most fundamental aims of systemic reform: (1) to support the implementation of standards-based reform in core content areas (2) to ensure that all students have equitable access to resources and best practices, and (3) to build capacity within schools to sustain reform objectives from within. As Barbara Means said in the introduction to her book, Technology and Education Reform, "Rather than expecting, as many pioneers in technology did, that the introduction of powerful new technologies will be the driving force that transforms the U.S. school system, I have come to believe that the causal relationship flows at least equally strongly in the other direction that is, that education reform makes a school ripe for technology" (p. xii). In this project, we have found that technology and system reform can become joint goals, and implementation of one can directly and mutually support the implementation of the other. |
 
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