"States Team for High School Makeover With Eye Toward '21st-Century Skills'" (EdWeek, 01/06/09)

The New England Secondary School Consortium aims to create high schools that are "flexible, borderless, multidimensional community learning centers" in which students would have the chance to study at the secondary and postsecondary levels, do research in their communities, build real-world skills through internships, and immerse themselves in technology.