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Center for Advanced Research and Technology
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TypePublic
EstablishedMay 2000
Grades11-12
Number of students1200
Websitehttp://www.cart.org/

The Center for Advanced Research and Technology, more commonly referred to as CART, is a high tech high school located in Clovis, California, USA.

The CART facility is about 75,000 sq ft (7,000 m2).[1] Classes offered are Professional Sciences, Engineering, Advanced Communications, and Global Economics. Within each cluster are career-specific laboratories in which students complete industry-based projects and receive academic credit for advanced English, science, math, and technology.

Approach

After going through an application process, Eleventh and Twelfth grade students from the Clovis and Fresno Unified School Districts are bused to CART where they attend half-day classes in one of the laboratories taught by teams of instructors from both education and business.[1]

Unlike most local public high schools where students move from one class to another for different subjects, CART implies a different technique in that each lab is taught by three teachers each teaching a branch-off subject related to the main subject. Usually the make-up is a lab will have one teacher who teaches English while the two remaining teachers will teach different sciences.[1]

Courses

In addition to courses offered at other traditional high schools, CART offers courses in forensic research, biomedicine, environmental science, network management, psychology, law and policy, database design, game design, multimedia, robotics, biotechnology, economics and finance, marketing and advertising,

History

Purchase of the grounds for the new school was done in January 1997. Completed in May 2000, students began classes in August 2000.

References

  1. ^ a b c The Education Innovator #35, U.S. Department of Education Newsletter (September 25, 2005), accessed 10 April 2008

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