{"id":15376,"date":"2012-08-07T16:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=15376"},"modified":"2012-08-07T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T20:13:29","slug":"the-high-school-of-the-future-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/15376\/the-high-school-of-the-future-now\/","title":{"rendered":"The High School of the Future, Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out a fascinating new public school in Salt Lake City called <a href=\"http:\/\/innovations.slcschools.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Innovations High School<\/a>.\u00a0 A first-of-its-kind program, Innovations allows public school students to sample every type of educational model currently available.\u00a0 According to a story in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/news\/54590773-78\/innovations-students-lake-salt.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\">Salt Lake Tribune<\/a>, kids in grades 9 \u2013 12 can blend online and in-classroom learning, choosing courses in traditional subjects as well as technical programs from community colleges.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of Innovations is to give students and their parents more flexibility when it comes to progressing through coursework.\u00a0 The personalized nature of the Innovations experience also lets kids get exposure to well-paying career options they might otherwise miss in a more structured high school program.<\/p>\n<p>I apologize if my summary sounds like a paid advertisement \u2013it isn\u2019t \u2013 but the flexibility seemingly provided by an Innovations education makes too much sense to be ignored.\u00a0 Too many kids aren\u2019t allowed to fit their education around their interests and abilities.\u00a0 The result is often a one-size-fits-all widget system that pumps out graduates who know a little (or in many cases very little) about many things, but have no depth or experience in anything.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Innovations is not a charter school.\u00a0 Rather, it\u2019s a project by school administrators to use the changes wrought on education by technology to create new opportunities for local students currently in public, private, and home school situations.\u00a0 If quality and flexibility are the norm, then Innovations might represent one area where traditional public schools can entice high-performing students back onto campus.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Governing.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out a fascinating new public school in Salt Lake City called Innovations High School.\u00a0 A first-of-its-kind program, Innovations allows public school students to sample every type of educational model currently available.\u00a0 According to a story in the Salt Lake Tribune, kids in grades 9 \u2013 12 can blend online and in-classroom learning, choosing courses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[64,1447,3746,3310],"class_list":["post-15376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-education","tag-reform","tag-salt-lake-city","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15376"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15380,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15376\/revisions\/15380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}