May 26, 2004

Basis for success

A couple in Tuscon, AZ, have created a public high school based on a radical proposal. Teach nothing but AP courses from 5th to 12th grade.

The story.

They say, or at least the journalist says, that to a certain extent this is an attempt to curtail the "coddling movement." Which appears to be a synonym for the self-esteem movement that took shape around the sixties. Combining a program like this with the type of work that Bob Moses is doing in Mississippi, and I think the world will either beat a path to your door....or they'll assassinate you. Not sure which. Maybe both.

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