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...which were viewed as dead-end depositories for underperforming teens. Now, though, Fairfax has five distinct career academies that bus juniors and seniors in from across this sprawling and diverse county for two-hour courses each school day and then bus them back to their home schools for regular coursework. John Whittman, Chantilly Academy's principal, estimates that 15% of the students are in advanced-placement or honors courses, 25% are special-needs or learning-disabled students, and the rest are "just regular kids who are bored in traditional classrooms...
Stories like Matt's have caught the eye of school administrators, leading to a nationwide movement toward career academies. For many kids, especially those who feel disconnected from traditional coursework and don't excel at things like sports or drama club, these "schools within schools" provide an exciting connection between classwork and a fulfilling career. They also manage, through the breadth of their recruiting and their subject offerings, to avoid much of the stigma once associated with shop and vocational classes...
Merseth said student-teachers will teach for two hours each morning, working in teams of four with an experienced Cambridge teacher. Then they will review with the teacher how that morning's class went and, later in the day, will take coursework...
...real, a note of caution is advised before uncorking the champagne: The timing of the Harvard survey may have influenced the results. Students were interviewed during reading period, a time when there may be less drinking in general and when heavier-drinking students less concerned about their coursework may have been away from school. Furthermore, the Harvard survey was completed in 2001, almost two full years after the national sample. Drinking rates may have changed everywhere since then...
...program whereby a student would wander from survey course to survey course in hopes of achieving an appropriate "distribution." We will assume that the Crimson meant to advocate the opportunity for students with background in a field akin to one of the Cores to explore upper-level departmental coursework remote from their concentration in satisfaction of graduation requirements. In such cases, cross-listing departmental courses would be an appropriate route. For the majority of students, however, the Core effectively blends methods of thinking with manageable quantities of knowledge within a discipline in which a student may have little...