By liberating teens, rather than constraining them, writes this author, a pilot project in Australia is geared to the strengths of the teen brain, rather than the weaknesses. "The traditional school struggles to box in the vast adolescent energy and bend it to function on adult terms for adult goals. In traditional high schools, kids are getting factory schooling and their big brains are being treated as storage reservoirs rather than dizzyingly creative machines. It's the opposite of what the teen brain is geared for."
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