Curriculum under review.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September, 2005 | by Smith, Lisa

Byline: Lisa Smith Daily Herald Staff Writer Curriculum experts from Brown University are shadowing students, interviewing teachers and forming focus groups of parents this semester to offer recommendations on how to improve education at the St. Charles school district's two high schools. Among the changes under consideration are more rigorous graduation requirements and the abolition of the weighted grade system.

Joseph DiMartino, director of secondary school redesign at Brown University's Education Alliance in Providence, R.I., told school board members at Monday's meeting that the high school experience needs to be restructured to meet the demands of today's world, which favors a college education. The typical graduation requirements of four years of...