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Can a standardized educational system produce individual thinkers?

Coxsackie-Athens High School
Coxsackie, New York

Taping Date:

November 10, 2010

Location:

WAMC Linda Norris Auditorium
339 Central Avenue
Albany, New York

Running time:

60:00

Members of Coxsackie-Athens High School’s English 10 class discuss whether the standard curricula in America’s public schools produce individual thinkers with Chris Mercogliano, a 35-year veteran of the Albany Free School, the oldest alternative school in the United States, and Dan Liebert, Principal of Tech Valley High School in NYS’s Capital Region.

Moderated by WAMC’s David Guistina.

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