Westport 2025: Boldly Going Where No Students Have Gone Before

Publication: Westport Now
Date: March 14, 2013

Summary: SEI works to prepare Westport students to be creative, critical thinkers in order to solve real world problems globally in the future

Excerpt:
"Westporter Deborah Sawch, a former Staples High School English teacher now working for Columbia, stressed that while Westport’s schools were top tier “complacency is not okay,” and that continued improvement to compete globally is imperative. She cited an international student assessment test showing that U.S. students “are woefully behind.”
“It was a Sputnik moment, a wake up call,” she said. “Are we really preparing students for the world?”

Read the full article on Westport Now.

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