Credit Flexibility--A Powerful Tool

Today I write on GettingSmart (EdReformer) about the real change agent in Ohio--and it's not Issue 2.

Credit Flexibility is a new (2010) law designed to give students many more options in what they learn and who they learn it from. In it's first year, CreditFlex students have chosen to

• Learn advanced music from a local youth symphony 
• Learn business and agricultural management skills by growing and marketing popcorn. 
• Get Physical Education credits outside the school day 
• Work with edible and medicinal plants and their relation to healthy living (under an International Baccalaureate instructor and professional herbalist). 
• Learn programming and build robots Research environmental and global issues 
• Learn Latin from a private instructor outside the public school 

For more examples, check out the news videos and newspaper coverage at Ohio Credit Flex on FB.