Why Obama Praised IBM's Brooklyn Education Model
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As pundits pick apart the State of the Union address for clues as to what’s likely to stick, pay attention to P-TECH. That’s the Pathways in Technology Early College High School, an innovative collaboration between New York public schools, the City University of New York, and IBM.
The 18-month-old experiment has caught not only the president’s eye but the attention of companies, politicians, and educators across the nation. The Brooklyn school takes students in the ninth grade and aims to have them graduate six years later with both a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering—not to mention a likely job at IBM. As President Obama said, “We need to give every American student opportunities like this.”