International Case Study: Alpha School
High Tech High is a network of 16 tuition-free public charter schools in San Diego, serving approximately 6,350 students from kindergarten to Year 12 (High Tech High, n.d.). Students are admitted by zip-code-based lottery with no test or prior achievement requirements, and approximately 50% come from low-income families (High Tech High, n.d.).
International Case Study: High Tech High
High Tech High is a network of 16 tuition-free public charter schools in San Diego, serving approximately 6,350 students from kindergarten to Year 12 (High Tech High, n.d.). Students are admitted by zip-code-based lottery with no test or prior achievement requirements, and approximately 50% come from low-income families (High Tech High, n.d.).
International Case Study: Bedales School
Bedales School has operated for 132 years on a 120-acre estate in the Hampshire countryside. Founded in 1893 by John Haden Badley as a reaction against the authoritarian, examination-focused English public school system, it was co-educational by 1898 and had a formal School Council giving students a voice in governance by 1916. Its founding philosophy – “head, hand and heart” – treats intellectual, practical and emotional development as equally constitutive of a full education.