By Joe Robertson, The Kansas City Star, Mo. (MCT)
This is the future American school?
Really?
“You guys are killing me!” teacher Don Labonte shouts.
He’s laughing. He’s roaring back over the din of sixth-grade science students who are hurling arguments over the custom-made board game that is the curriculum for the hour.
But he might as well be speaking for all those open-minded educators who are trying to get up the courage to revolutionize classrooms as we know them.
Welcome to ChicagoQuest charter school.
It can be loud here.
And if you hope to embrace a vision of schooling that puts children in control of team projects immersed in the world of digital information, social networks and games, you’d better get used to it.
Even if it kills you.
Originally published Online in Education Week
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