After School, Students are 'Playing the Whole Game' in Activities from Drama to Sports Debate. Backers of Project-Based Learning Ask: Why Can't All of Education Look Like This? [laschoolreport.com]
By Greg Toppo, LA School Report, September 30, 2019 In 2013, attorneys at the California Innocence Project, weighed down by a backlog of casework, turned for help to an unusual group: humanities students at High Tech High Chula Vista, a nearby charter school. The students, all juniors, trained on a past case handled by the San Diego nonprofit, which reviews pleas from prisoners who maintain that they’re innocent. Then, in teams of three or four, the students reviewed prisoners’ files and...