Majors for high-schoolers aim to focus learning

As the new school year progresses, a growing number of schools across the United States are trying new approaches to move students from feeling like anonymous drones with an ambiguous destiny to focused learners. In some schools students are in broad topical clusters, while in others, such as Sarasota High School in Florida, students must think about what specific job they aim to achieve, and choose a relevant major. Even as more states and individual schools adopt this “major” approach, critics say high school should be a place for gaining general knowledge and communication skills. Students aren’t ready to narrow their career options yet, they say. Read more of this article from The Christian Science Monitor.