Students want more academic / intellectual challenges in school!
A resounding number of teens, over nine in ten, believe that providing more opportunities to take challenging courses would improve their education. Teens also show strong support for exit exams (eighty-one percent) and requiring math and science courses for all four years of high school (seventy-five percent). These statistics are based on the results in the State of Our Nation’s Youth report issued today (August 9) by the Horatio Alger Association. (bolds added)
Yes, teach to exaulted ambition, so those who can will respond. How else will any student glimpse what is possible to know through schools?
This press release warmed my love for learning. I hope you appreciate this good news also.