Dreaming Big in South Carolina: A Public Boarding School for the Arts 
by Deborah Fallows
“One half dream; one half plan.” That’s how one student described his life at the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, South Carolina. (Read it here.)
Category Archives: High Schools
A School With a Sense of Place
A School With a Sense of Place
by Deborah Fallows
Several of the students described their final projects, which included a welding piece, drama productions, and a magazine, among others. My favorite was a video showing how machines helped society recover from a disaster. “What was the disaster?” we asked. The answer, which reminded us that we were indeed among high schoolers: zombie apocalypse. (Read more of it here.)
Report From Rural Maine: What It Takes to Make a School
Report From Rural Maine: What It Takes to Make a School
Shead High School, home of the Tigers, sits on a hill in Eastport, Maine, just a short walk from everything else in town. I went to visit, curious about what a small public school in very rural, maritime Maine, with a total of 110 students, would be like. (Read it here.)
American Futures 