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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is often true if your student goes to a truly rigorous high school. That’s WHY you want rigor - sets them up for college success!![/quote]

Not really.  A lot of high schools don't emphasize study skills to that extent, and a lot of students don't need it.  Making notecards for a grade?  That would have driven me crazy.[/quote]

This is exactly why Banneker tends not to be a good fit for kids coming in from a solid education background with good content knowledge and executive functioning skills.

It’s just busywork and unnecessary hours of homework.  [/quote]

I had strong content knowledge and executive functioning skills and went to a public HS 40 years ago where we were taught how to write research papers through this model. Note cards were annoying, but what I understood once I got to college and grad school was that they were about much more than time management and organization—the notecard approach taught me how to identify relevant, citeable pieces of information, tie it to a source, and then physically organize my argument (by moving the cards into piles). It was literally teaching us how to do research and develop a coherent argument. I never used notecards again, but I was absolutely using the same skills. I’m sure I would have figured it out (as my JR alumni kids have in college), but I think it’s great that Banneker employs this approach and would guess that it does result in graduates’ feeling more confident and prepared for the rigors of college research papers, especially in the humanities.[/quote]

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