Meanwhile, enrollment at these schools has plummeted 25 percent since the program began in 2013 and only three of the 72 schools met their achievement goals last year. This is an abject failure.

Despite having the privilege of being able to send her children to a nationally recognized school, the “cookie cutter design,” Robbins said, isn’t cutting it. “We’re unusual,” she said.

Cookie-Cutter Schools Give Students Deja Vu. Educators Try to Save Money As Opponents Urge Designs Anew. August 24, 2002. By Rosalind S. Helderman.

The key to reinventing high schools is not to find a better cookie cutter. Rather, it’s to put the cookie cutter away. The Opportunity by Design initiative offers a roadmap for communities that want ...

Cookie-cutter schools don't improve student achievement. By RICHARD W. CLARK, GUEST COLUMNIST March 24, 2008. In the past 47 years I have studied schooling throughout the country in locations as ...

Josh Monda: Larger schools didn't see me, didn't know me, didn't reach me. Their cookie cutter approach pushed me out of school where I slipped into a life of drugs and crime at age 14.

Cookie-cutter school reforms cement class and race divisions and hide the black genius in our backyards. In 1992 and fresh out of Yale, David Levin was on his way to becoming what has become a ...

What would happen if Congress passed a law requiring every U.S. statehouse to use the exact same building design? And that every city hall, every fire station and library must be built from a ...

Charter schools and accountabilityI must respond to one of the assumptions Geov Parrish ... “. . . they have spawned ‘cookie cutter’ schools with highly scripted lessons and a revolving ...

Open-plan classrooms were promoted as a way to encourage collaboration and flexibility in schools. But after 14 years, the ...