An offhand comment in today's Bridging Differences column prompted me to look up Edison Schools in the news, particularly after yesterday's glowing editorial promoting the Edison vision in the Wall Street Journal. Well, have I been gone for a month or what? After showing mediocre results and having a number of their schools returned to public administration, after settling in a rape case (during which Edison said it was not responsible for the safety of its students)(more), after losing millions of dollars and prompting an FBI investigation, the company has thrown in the towel. Having given up on schools, Edison has acquired an e-learning company, changed its name to edisonlearning, and is engaged in some sort of online venture. What a joke. As this article says, "in retrospect, that media frenzy just looks bizarre, and the glare of the spotlight was ultimately unflattering to Edison. In any case, that particular experiment is now officially dead." But that doesn't stop some blindly partisan sources from following WSJ's lead and gushing over what turns out to be a corpse.
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