Sanjay, haven’t looked at those particular schools, but their sites seem to support similar principles as I’m touting. Would that all schools were. As Mark Warschauer says, the only things wrong with schools are the curricula, the pedagogy, and they way they use technology ;). I fully agree what we’re undermining civics, but also making science and math unpalatable, etc. There’re better ways, and still looking to make that happen: K12, higher ed, and corp. Thanks for the comment!

Thank you for focusing on this issue. A substantial portion of my kid’s school year was taken up by making sure he passed the standardized tests. I don’t have results back yet but I expect he passed. He finished in an hour on a four hour test. The price for that is often ignored. We don’t teach a lot of subjects well anymore because they’re not on the test. Among them science, civics (as Justice O’Connor said civics is the reason that public schools were founded), etc.

Have you looked at schools like Acton in Austin or Alt School in San Francisco? Thoughts?