The New York Times article: “Turning Education Upside Down,” by Tina Rosenberg is about a particular High School in Detroit becoming what the article refers to as a “flipped school”: a school that switched it’s main media for teaching lectures from in-person to online. Clintondale High School, the first school to do this, first began doing this with only a specific few classes, but after seeing the immense success with those classes, they ended up switching all of their classes online. A few of the results were particularly dramatic: “failure rate in English dropped from 52 percent to 19 percent; in math, it dropped from 44 percent to 13 percent; in science, from 41 percent to 19 percent; and in social studies, from 28 percent to 9 percent,” says Rosenberg. Now, more and more schools from all over the country have begun administering the exact same form of education. Perhaps, with school lectures beginning to go online, we may eventually see more students in virtual classrooms than real ones. This might seem like a dramatic change from the classrooms that we’re all used to; but, hey, results don’t lie and you know what they say: knowledge is power.
