A New Tack to Help High-Schoolers At Risk: College
Washington Post, November 7, 2006
(excerpt) Some educators believe that the traditional high school, with its social pressures and focus on discipline, is a waste of time for a large number students.
Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York, which partners with an early college high school in Manhattan, contends that high school should end after 10th grade. Afterward, he said, students should be able to choose what they want to study, to motivate them to pursue their educations.
"High school is an outmoded, obsolete structure," Botstein said. "It is inadequate to deal with young adults who grow up in our society with an immense amount of freedom they don't know how to handle."
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, who is a champion of the movement through his foundation, also called high schools "obsolete" in a widely quoted speech to governors early last year.
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Washington Post, November 7, 2006
(excerpt) Some educators believe that the traditional high school, with its social pressures and focus on discipline, is a waste of time for a large number students.
Leon Botstein, president of Bard College in New York, which partners with an early college high school in Manhattan, contends that high school should end after 10th grade. Afterward, he said, students should be able to choose what they want to study, to motivate them to pursue their educations.
"High school is an outmoded, obsolete structure," Botstein said. "It is inadequate to deal with young adults who grow up in our society with an immense amount of freedom they don't know how to handle."
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates, who is a champion of the movement through his foundation, also called high schools "obsolete" in a widely quoted speech to governors early last year.
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