Educational trailblazers: Expeditionary Learning Guides Students on a New Path

摘要

The upper-middle-class suburb of Stapleton outside Denver, CO, would probably not spring to mind were you to think about where some of the most radical ideas in education are thriving. There is nothing radical about Stapleton, other than the speed atwhich it grew on the pancake plains of Eastern Colorado. Block after homogeneous block of row houses and condominiums rise as one giant mass from the dry grasslands. Driving slowly through the immaculate, alphabetized streets only hours after arriving from the melting pot metropolis of New York City, my preconceptions faltered — a fitting lesson on my first day back to school.