What Happens When Students Control Their Own Education?

In an 11th-grade English class at Pittsfield Middle High School in rural New Hampshire, Jenny Wellington’s students were gathered in a circle debating Henry David Thoreau’s positions on personal responsibility. “Do you think Thoreau really was about ‘every man for himself?'” asked one 16-year-old boy. “He lived alone in the woods and didn’t want to pay taxes,” another student shots back.

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