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The High Tech High Press Archive
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January 24, 2007 -- The City Council voted 4-0 last night, with Councilman Jerry Rindone abstaining, to grant the Point Loma-based charter school company a long-term lease on land the city owns in southeast Chula Vista Read More >>
January 20, 2007 -- It can be difficult for high school students to understand how what they learn relates to the outside world. But for Aaron Taylor and Jordan Habte, that isn't a problem. Read More >>
January 11, 2007 -- SAN MARCOS High Tech High School will open in North County next year, but it wont be in Escondido. The charter school will open a campus for the 2007-08 school year in San Marcos, near San Marcos Boulevard and Discovery Street, officials announced yesterday. Read More >>
January 11, 2007 -- San Diego, Calif. - Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez toured San Diego’s High Tech High and announced that the Commerce Department’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would expand its partnership with the school to offer workshops on building under sea robots (Remotely Operated Vehicles), a type of technology that is used for ocean exploration and research. Read More >>
December 3, 2006 -- One of the distinguishing factors of High Tech High is its real-world emphasis in the pursuit of education. The school seems to understand that the more exposure its students have to business, the more creative they will be as they develop career plans. Read More >> October 14, 2006 -- San Diego Zoo publication "Zoonooz" features High Tech High's Biotechnology class project: DNA barcoding of African Bushmeat Read More >>
September 21, 2006 -- For every one high school student we welcome to our school this year, more than nine students will be left behind on a waiting list. While we at High Tech High are honored and proud to have been flooded with more than 3,000 applications for 268 slots determined by a computer-generated, random lottery sorted by zip code, we believe San Diego students deserve better than a one-in-nine chance of getting a dynamic, career-oriented high school education. Read More >>
July 11, 2006 -- As a venture capitalist, Greg Mauro's job is to find and nurture promising technology startups for investment opportunities. Now he wants to do the same in the public education arena. The 36-year-old recently helped secure $35 million in federal tax credits for building new charter schools in low-income neighborhoods in California. Read More >>
June 26, 2006 -- One of the $29 billion foundation's key initiatives is improving high-school education in the U. S. Here's a look at how Bill and Melinda Gates have become personally involved in this Herculean task. Read More >>
June 8, 2006 -- For the third year in a row, grade eleven students from High Tech High are authoring a book on the San Diego Bay. Tom Fudge speaks with one of the teachers, and a few of the students who wrote last year's version of Perspective of San Diego Bay: A Field Guide. Read More >>
June 6, 2006 -- Fifty-six outgoing seniors at San Diego's High Tech High School will have something more: a book that has received rave reviews nationwide and is on sale at Amazon.com. Read More >> May 15, 2006 -- In 2005, Jay Vavra returned to Stanford to present his research team’s study, Two Sides of the Boat Channel, about a section of San Diego Bay. In January, Vavra’s new team published a comprehensive analysis of the bay’s biogeography, Perspectives of San Diego Bay: A Field Guide. Read More >>
May 9, 2006 -- Students who attend High Tech High are assumed to be young geniuses, operating effortlessly in a world of microscopes, telescopes and isotopes. It's even been suggested that High Tech's athletes would be better off competing in video versions of their games. Certainly they'd hold an edge in cyberspace. Read More >>
March 6, 2006 -- At High Tech High in San Diego, students are building their own online study guides. They even record messages explaining the chemistry lessons to themselves. And, yes, they can use it during a test. Read More >>
June 15, 2005 -- Even before a single student had signed up for High Tech High School, the founders of the new charter school on San Diego Bay knew they didn’t want that first school to be their last. Read More >>
May 1, 2005 -- USD alumni are helping charter school students thrive under a new educational paradigm Read More >>
December 23, 2004 -- The High Tech High Learning Network of charter schools will open a high school and a middle school in a building at the former Naval Training Center in Point Loma, across the street from the original High Tech High. Read More >>
October 11, 2004 -- Larry Rosenstock is doing wonders with disaffected high schoolers in San Diego, the first step in a grand plan to reverse America's failure at mass education. The nation's richest philanthropists are lining up behind him. Read More >>
April 1, 2004 -- Until recently, high schools that catered to students gifted in math and science were few and far between, but now they're popping up all over the place. Read More >>
September 1, 2003 -- Why augie Gallego, Catherine Mackey, Larry Rosenstock and Dan Sullivan are helping John Yochelson develop the "BEST" guide for preparing women and minorities for science and engineering careers. Read More >>
April 1, 2003 -- A San Diego charter school offers advice about how to build a multicultural, high-achieving school of choice. Read More >>
March 3, 2003 -- With Qualcomm millions as his cushion, Gary Jacobs has become the most powerful man in San Diego's Jewish community. But his most important legacy may be an institution that seeks to change the face of American education. It's called High Tech High. Read More >>
July 1, 2001 -- We could tell you the philosophy behind San Diego's High Tech High. We could quote from John Dewey, or -- as principal Larry Rosenstock prefers -- Wayne Gretzky. We could talk about the school's unusual layout, its small classes, its innovative scheduling, or its unique take on the relationships between kids and adults. Read More >>
August 28, 2000 -- Reformers are pushing for a curriculum that uses technology to prepare students for the New Economy Read More >> |
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