A New York City high school that received a failing grade before its technology- and project-based curriculum was launched in September has been so successful with its interdisciplinary, high-tech student projects that city officials are said to be planning 40 more schools with the same model. "Adolescents want to do work that’s important and that has relevance to the world, not just something that gets finished and turned in on a piece of paper to a teacher," said co-Principal Mary Moss.
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Categories: Use of Technology
Classes can change brain and the way people think
By Liz Bowie | liz.bowie@baltsun.com
- May 18, 2009
For years, school systems across the nation dropped the arts to concentrate on getting struggling students to pass tests in reading and math. Yet now, a growing body of brain research suggests that teaching the arts may be good for students across all disciplines.
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Tagged: art, brain
