California Wants to Overhaul High School Learning. CART in Clovis Leads the Way

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At CART High near Fresno, there is no gum stuck to the floor. The saffron-yellow walls are unmarred by graffiti. Toting laptops, students file calmly down spacious, light-filled hallways to classes like biotechnology and digital marketing. There’s no fighting, no shouting, no bells. No one even cuts class.

Carolyn Jones

CalMatters

It’s hard to believe CART High is a public high school. But in the future, this may be a model for every high school in California.

“We can see from the data that the big, old-fashioned factory model of high school – where students run from class to class with a locker as their only stable point of contact – is not succeeding,” said Linda Darling-Hammond, president of the State