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High Tech High 2.0
theodp writes "A week ago, in his How to Keep America Competitive Op-Ed, Bill Gates touted the Gates Foundation-backed High Tech High as the future of American education. One small problem. Two days earlier, tearful Bay Area High Tech High students — recruited by a Bill Gates video — were told that their school of the future has no future. So would Bill be too embarrassed to lay out his education plan before the Senate Wednesday? Nah. Not too surprisingly though, mentions of High Tech High were MIA in Bill's prepared remarks (PDF), which touted Philly's imaginatively named $65M School of the Future, built under the guidance of Microsoft, as the new school of the future. Committee politicians reportedly embraced virtually all of the suggestions made by Gates."
Duuuuuuuuude!
What if I do the same thing, and I do get different results?
tearful Bay Area High Tech High students -- recruited by a Bill Gates video -- were told that their school of the future has no future... teacher ,i had my homework but the dog eat my school.
So, um, exactly how far does that $65 million go after subtracting out the computers for every student... and all those Vista licenses? =)
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Somehow that brings to mind Al Gore trying to salvage the image of the Democratic Party with his dancing.
Committee politicians reportedly embraced virtually all of the suggestions made by Gates.
And then they'll Extend and Extinguish them?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The failure of HTH clearly shows the lack of high school students we face in this country. There simply aren't enough American teenagers available! If HTH had been able to recruit teenagers from India, they'd be thriving. But no, anti-free-market immigration laws have put the school out of business.
Would *you* ever want to be described as a "committee politician"?
That HTH went to blue screen of death?
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Am I the only one who thought this article was going to be about some kind of new designer street drug?