Michigan Takes a Step Toward Small High Schools (400 Students)

Nolan Finley writing from Detroit:

The hope is that this first, small school will turn into a statewide system of high schools linked to businesses and hell-bent on preparing Michigan kids for the best colleges, the best jobs, the best futures.

"We know from research that small high schools are making a big difference in the lives of young people across the country," says Granholm, who approached Apple about coming to Detroit during a visit to Silicon Valley several months ago. "When a global corporation like Apple makes a commitment of this magnitude to education in Michigan, it underscores how critical it is that we prepare all of our children for the 21st-century economy."

Michigan certainly isn't doing that today. You've read these statistics before, but they are so bleak, so disturbing, that they bear repeating at every opportunity, lest parents forget how greatly their children are being cheated:

I think Madison should also explore smaller high schools (including smaller facilities).

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 28, 2005 12:29 PM
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