We're finding that students are able to meet many state standards, curriculum standards and our school standards with this project.

Most teachers have little control over school policy or curriculum or choice of texts or special placement of students, but most have a great deal of autonomy inside the classroom. To a degree shared by only a few other occupations, such as police work, public education rests precariously on the skill and virtue of the people at the bottom of the institutional pyramid.

We want everything to be hands-on. The curriculum should be alive for the students, instead of flat ... They are challenged, but they're able to express themselves and think outside of the box and really understand topics in depth.

By focusing on more rigorous curriculum, we'll get students with better test scores.

Every single one of them.

Digital Blue is not cutting-edge, top-of-the-line technology.