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Title: Sustainability and Scale-up: It's About Systemic Change (Fall, 2004) (Newsletter)

Description: Well conceived and implemented innovations are essential to strengthening students, schools, families, and communities. Many new initiatives, however, are pursued primarily as specially funded projects and demonstrations. When the funding ends, more often than not much of what was put in place disappears. By now, we are fully convinced that advancing the field requires escaping ?project mentality? and becoming sophisticated about sustainability and scale-up.

Access at:   http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/newsletter/Fall04.pdf  170kb; 13pp