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Rebuilding Education.
By Christina Fisher
Construction students at the Olympic Community of Schools are successfully learning the skills of the industry - and a few life lessons - through project-based learning.
Most high schools as they exist today no longer work. They don't function. They don't meet the needs of a 21st century global society. The Olympic Community of Schools in Charlotte, North Carolina, is changing this for the 2,000 students who attend one of its five learning communities.
About a year ago, Olympic High School won a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), an education reform organization dedicated to transforming American public education. Since then, Olympic High School has spent the last year transforming itself into the Olympic Community of Schools that includes Biotechnology, Health, and Public Services; International Business and Communication Studies; International Studies and Global Economics; the Renaissance School (arts and humanities); and the School of Math, Engineering, Technology, and Science.
These smaller learning communities, which have no more than 400 students each, use project-based learning in order to bring the "theoretical application of knowledge that kids have received…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Rebuilding Education.
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