'High School is too old school' American Public Media’s “Marketplace” Read Time 1 Minute Academics Issues and Ideas Jack Schneider, assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross, discusses the reinvention of the American high school in American Public Media’s “Marketplace.” The article discusses the $50 million campaign "XQ: The Super School Project" launched by Laurene Powell Jobs, philanthropist and wife of the late Steve Jobs. The campaign will call on teams from around the country to come up with new ideas on reinventing high school that will compete for funding to turn their schools into “super schools.”“High school hasn't been reinvented in over 100 years,” Powell Jobs says. “It was designed for early 20th-century workforce needs, and as we all know, in the last 100 years the rest of our world has changed radically, but schools have not.”Schneider, an education historian, discusses how this is not a new idea. The mid-20th century saw a movement to make American high schools bigger with more courses from which to choose, he says. Fifty years later, schools were thought to be too big and the push for smaller schools began, the Gates Foundation spending $1 billion promoting the cause.“To say that the process isn't working, when we have the world's largest economy, and when we have a more or less functioning democracy, I don't see the outward signs that the educational system is failing,” Schneider says. He agrees that high school is far from perfect, but that it has been evolving all along. Read the “Marketplace” article. This “Holy Cross in the News” item is by Emma Collins ’16. More Stories Image Go to Story Ritual, Community and Shared Experience: Running the Boston Marathon Image Go to Story Faculty, Worcester Partnerships Solve Real-World Problems Image Go to Story Remembering the Truth-Telling Outsider View All Stories
Jack Schneider, assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross, discusses the reinvention of the American high school in American Public Media’s “Marketplace.” The article discusses the $50 million campaign "XQ: The Super School Project" launched by Laurene Powell Jobs, philanthropist and wife of the late Steve Jobs. The campaign will call on teams from around the country to come up with new ideas on reinventing high school that will compete for funding to turn their schools into “super schools.”
