The Emperor's Clothes: Traditional and "Avant Garde" at High Tech High
Authors: Charles Taylor Kerchner
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High Tech High may be the only school in the country that has an Emperor. Rob
Riordan took the tongue-and-cheek title of “emperor of rigor” partly to address the
expectations of visitors looking for someone in authority and partly as a serious joke,
a conversation starter about how HTH views student achievement. It’s not about
test scores.
From the start, one is led to expect something different at HTH: its schools don’t look
like schools. Its leaders don’t sound like administrators but unabashed evangelicals
preaching a new form of learning: “At HTH, we believe that change in schooling
happens, not incrementally by adding programs, but by generating holistic designs
that enable new ways of teaching and learning.”
These are not the good, gray, self-effacing bureaucrats of public school administration.
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Date submitted: 07/10/2012
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