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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. |