Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Met School Receives Edu-Blogging Seal of Approval

Stephen writes:

Ewan McIntosh introduces us to the MET School, "where no more than 120-150 kids are led in groups of 12-17 students by advisors. No 'teachers' in sight."

Of course, he also could have written "Bill Gates introduces us to The Met School" back in May 2005, although I guess billg didn't make it sound as compelling:

At the Met School in Providence, Rhode Island, 70 percent of the students are black or Hispanic. More than 60 percent live below the poverty line. Nearly 40 percent come from families where English is a second language. As part of its special mission, the Met enrolls only students who have dropped out in the past or were in danger of dropping out. Yet, even with this student body, the Met now has the lowest dropout rate and the highest college placement rate of any high school in the state.

These are the kind of results you can get when you design a high school to prepare every student for college.

I've name-checked The Met and Big Picture quite a few times over the past few years. I'm looking forward to finding out whether or not this is what "School 2.0" looks like.

1 comment:

Gary said...

Check out: http://www.bigpicture.org/publications/2005archives/DistrictAdministration05.htm