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Article: Pre-engineering effort expanding here
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2009
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By AMY HETZNER
Weeks in a high school can seem like years, considering all the
material students have to cover before they graduate.
So the two weeks devoted to projects such as golf-ball catapults
and Popsicle-stick bridges in the freshman-level pre-engineering
class at Milwaukee's Riverside University High School have to show a
payoff.
School leaders think they've already found one. Last year,
researchers examining the impact of the project-based curriculum
known as Project Lead the Way found that Riverside seniors in the
program attended school an average of eight more days during the
school year than their peers.
Those findings and other benefits are enough for Milwaukee Public
Schools ...