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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ one thing thing Europe does that Basis has borrowed is simultaneously studying three sciences concurrently over several years. The American model has been to do earth science in 9th, biology in 10th, Chemistry in 11th and on.  Another thing Europe does is direct . students into academic schools and technical schools according to interest and ability. Not as much in the USA. Everyone is college bound. [/quote]

And what European style teaching also means (I'm speaking for German, France, and Spain in particular) is a lot of lecturing, desks facing to the teacher with little interaction than a one-way street from the teacher to the student. There is little opportunity and no expectation to engage actively in the learning process. I have no clue what teaching looks like at Basis but if that's the kind of "European style teaching that is meant", then, as someone who downright suffered in those classrooms, that's not what I'd like for my child.
Those students of course still do a lot better by international standards because you won't find the same degree of poverty in any of those countries and because students are "sorted" into ability groups after about 5th or 6th grade, with often only the advanced ones closely examined and reported about in international reports (speaking of comparing apples to apples).[/quote]

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