About the Conference
On March 20 and 21, 2003, the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Temple University's Mid-Atlantic Regional Technology in Education Consortium (MAR*TEC) convened a small working conference of 80 researchers, policymakers, and practitioners whose work centers on "Scaling Up Success: Lessons Learned from Technology-based Educational Improvement." This conference synthesized insights from leading researchers working on challenges of transfer, generalization, scaling up, and adaptation of successful educational interventions. Participants included scholars studying these challenges, educators from implementation sites involved in their research, and national and state policymakers. The conference afforded representatives of these three communities the opportunity to share their insights and to connect the "missing dots" between theory and practice that often undercut promising innovations.