But at least Edison did not squander vast quantities of public money on installing cinema screens in schools around the country.

但至少，爱迪生并没有浪费大量公帑，对安装在全国各地的学校银幕。

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Chris Whittle is the founder and chairman of Edison Schools.

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Similarly, preliminary evaluations of the Edison Project, a private firm which manages 12 local schools, demonstrate that students have made significant academic gains on student achievement tests in three of the four Edison schools that opened in 1995.

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In 1991 Christopher Whittle, a media entrepreneur, and Benno Schmidt, a former president of Yale University, founded the Edison Project, with plans to create a chain of 1, 000 for-profit schools.

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