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MCET: Creating the Infrastructure

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  • INABETH MILLER

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Massachusetts has forged a unique path to create the Mass LearnPike. It is not among the early leaders. An elementary school principal was once heard to say, “I don't want to be first or even second. Middle, middle. That's where my parents and this community want to be.†In allowing other states to surge ahead, to experiment, to slip and fail, to emerge with strong programs and services, the middles, like Massachusetts, can pick and choose their strategies. The middles can select program material from the best available throughout the country. The middles can build an infrastructure that is reasonable and sound, based upon experience rather than intuition. The middles can experiment with combining technologies and introducing new variations. With that infrastructure firmly in place, the middles will spread their wings and scale new heights; they will change the delivery of education for local schools. Today, Massachusetts has the resources, the leadership team, the partnerships, and the momentum to move from the middles into a nontrivial role in shaping the future of schooling.

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  • Inabeth Miller, 1991. "MCET: Creating the Infrastructure," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 514(1), pages 92-106, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:514:y:1991:i:1:p:92-106
    DOI: 10.1177/0002716291514001008
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