Dozens of public high schools in eight states will introduce a program next year allowing 10th graders who pass a battery of tests to get a diploma two years early and immediately enroll in community college.
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The new system of high school coursework with the accompanying board examinations is modeled largely on systems in high-performing nations including Denmark, Finland, England, France and Singapore.
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High school students will first begin the new coursework in fall 2011 in schools in Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
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This sounds like a great program! And why isn't Oregon participating? Because Oregon has one of the most screwed-up educational systems in the country and has for the 30+ years I've lived here. Funding schools is a constant hassle, failing as much as not. So Oregon clearly is not progressive enough to do this.
Oregon has this progressive reputation, largely because of the bottle bill and other environmental issues, I suppose. But Oregon is far less progressive than its reputation in countless areas. Washington, across the river, is more progressive than Oregon, though Oregonians don't like to hear this. There's a long history in this regard. Black settlers in the Oregon territory quickly learned to flee to the Washington territory where they could own land as they could not here. And in the 1920s the KKK elected the governor here, not on race matters but anti-Catholic energy. So I don't expect Oregon to do anything progressive in education any time soon, alas.
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