IB in the Media
Exciting news! The IB is currently featured in two articles that discuss new trends in U.S. education. Check out the links to Time Magazine and Edutopia below for details.
How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century
Time Magazine
Excerpt:
American schools aren't exactly frozen in time, but considering the pace of change in other areas of life, our public schools tend to feel like throwbacks. Kids spend much of the day as their greatgrandparents once did: sitting in rows, listening to teachers lecture, scribbling notes by hand, reading from textbooks that are out of date by the time they are printed. A yawning chasm (with an emphasis on yawning) separates the world inside the schoolhouse from the world outside.
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Global Superpower: The unique International Baccalaureate program sparks both admiration and controversy
Edutopia
Excerpt:
For much of its thirty-eight-year history, IB was available in a sprinkling of high schools—perhaps the best-kept secret in education. But as school districts strive (and struggle) to improve student performance, IB is expanding quickly. In the United States, 521 high schools offer IB, a demanding collegeprep curriculum with an emphasis on global education—up from 327 in North America six years ago. Last May, 13,089 students
were candidates for the IB diploma, and 27,557 more took at least one IB exam without necessarily enlisting in the full program.
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Could The International Baccalaureate Program Change U.S. Education?
http://www.nasfaa.org/publications/2007/couldibchangeus010507.html
Germantown High will offer advanced diploma
http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/education/article/0,2673,MCA_22897_5292700,00.html