A High School for a new Millennium

In my leadership class we talked about how our schools need some serious revamping.  Our schools are still set up like they were back in the Industrial Age instead of the Information Age we are currently living in.  I read an article along the same lines titled, “High Schools for the New Millennium”.  This article was written by the Linda and Bill Gate Foundation and places a large emphasis on the importance of small schools.  I think people are so scared of moving in this direction because of the cost when in reality it would save money in the long run. An interesting correlation that was made in the article was that if a shipping business failed to get a third of it packages to its customers on time…the company would probably go out of business.  Compare this to a school where a third of the students don’t graduate year after year and the school continues to stay open.  This gave me a lot of insight into how our future school MUST (not should) look.