We all know that there are these exemplars who can take the toughest students, and they'll teach them two-and-a-half years of math in a single year.
I support high academic standards. Period.
High school sucks! It's hard.
In my son's kindergarten, they're telling us how to get him into Stanford. By their advice, I'm doing everything wrong, because I'm trying to make him happy rather than putting him through as many piano lessons as possible.
Juilliard. It was a brutal and beautiful experience.
We are making sure that the courses we offer at MITx and HarvardX are quintessential MIT and Harvard courses. They are not watered down. They are not MIT Lite or Harvard Lite. These are hard courses. These are the exact same courses, so the certificate will mean something.
Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.
That's what really bothered me about high school: There was just no time to do anything other than school.
Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?
Many expanded-time schools have generated extraordinary results. In some cases, they have completely closed the achievement gap, all while installing curricula with a richness rivaled only by elite private schools and those in the most upscale suburbs.
It's a tougher program for tougher customers.
