Sunday, September 18, 2011

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Big Changes in GA High Schools

 This is interesting


Georgia wants to overhaul its high school curriculum, making it more like college with courses tailored to what students want to do after they graduate.
Under the proposed plan, students would choose a "career cluster" that would lead them through the classes they need to either go on to a two-year or four-year college or to go straight into a job. The plan — which is expected to be taken up by the state Board of Education sometime this fall — would unravel the single-track approach instituted by former state schools Superintendent Kathy Cox that assumed every student was going to college.

I find this interesting because GA has changed it's high school curriculum just a few years ago, making high school so stringent that students not aiming for college would have no choice but to drop out.  I was wondering how long it would take to notice.  I am not against stringent high school programs, but the past few years have been overkill. 

Not that I am exactly crazy about the new course of action either, but it's at least more realistic.


Under Georgia's plan, students would take the same general core of classes with basics like algebra, English and history. At the end of their sophomore year, students would choose a cluster to determine what advanced classes they take.
For example, a student in the health sciences career cluster wanting to be a certified nursing assistant would take nutrition and wellness, chemistry and physical science — and go straight into a job after graduation. A student wanting to be a doctor would take Advanced Placement biology, physics and biotechnology and go to a four-year college.

 This is being billed as making high school more like college in GA.  I don't see that, but I am curious to see where this is all going.



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