1/7 Time for my periodic reminder about one of the most important educational research findings of the 20th century: the Eight-Year Study. Back in the 1930s, 30 high schools around the U.S. turned traditional practice on its head, especially for college-bound students...
2/7 In place of grade-driven, teacher-controlled, fact-based instruction, the learning was interdisciplinary, conceptual, experiential, collaborative, often ungraded, and fashioned jointly by teachers and students...
@alfiekohn College-bound students in the 1930s? So, a subset of the 30% who didn’t drop out?
@alfiekohn @milton_damian At first blush this resembles the educational philosophy of the Sudbury Valley school, and Montessori model schools.
@alfiekohn Well that would destroy all profits for the College Board and even colleges themselves.