High School Without Classes [TheAtlantic.com]

Samantha Sangenito 7/21/1612:00 PM

In Evelyn Rebollar’s classroom, a student is listening to music on his phone while typing away on a laptop. Behind him, a classmate is fiddling with a deck of cards. One student is playing the computer game Age of Empires in the back corner. A couple tables away, one of his peers is chatting with another teacher in French.

Rebollar is sitting at the front of the room, though the tables are arranged so most students aren’t facing her. The setup might seem strange: All of these students are in the same class, but at this moment, none of them are on the same task. Rebollar occasionally paces through the room to check on her students, but she isn’t bothered if a phone is out or if one of them is momentarily distracted.

[For more of this story, written by Alex Zimmerman, go to http://www.theatlantic.com/edu...onal-classes/491987/]

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