Avenues: a Few Photos

Learn more about Avenues via their website, Twitter and this recent Chris Whittle interview.

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Equipping pupils to prosper in the global economy is at the core of the Avenues curriculum, which has been developed by various experts including some from Harvard's School of Education. Mr Whittle thinks that even America's best private schools have a "stale" curriculum in this respect, especially when it comes to foreign languages, which often are not taught until pupils are 11. From the day they enter kindergarten at Avenues, pupils will be taught half their lessons in a foreign tongue, either Mandarin or Spanish--an "immersion" process that Mr Whittle reckons will make every pupil fully bilingual within seven years.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at February 13, 2013 5:41 AM
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