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The Mt. Edgecumbe High School model

- Teachers and students are co-managers.

- Excellence is regarded as the norm.

- First week each year is esteem-builder.

- Teachers are now 90 percent facilitators.

- Students determine and control discipline.

- Everyone learns speed typing.

- Everyone uses computers to publish work to professional standards.

- School operates four pilot companies to put theory into practice.

- All students learn Chinese or Japanese.

- Russian, physics, calculus and advanced quality training have been added to the curriculum, at students’ requests.

- Classes work without supervision.

- Staff training is top priority.

- Each teacher has own computer.

- Teachers, students learn to develop and use multimedia such as laser discs, hypercard and presentation software.

- 50 percent go on to college.