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While many of her fellow graduating high school seniors in Saratoga are either planning a celebratory trip or already basking on an exotic beach somewhere, Cameron Shetler can't wait to come home for the summer. It will be a much-needed break for Shetler, who has seen her fair share of markets, ruins and exotic cities over the past four years..

By the time seniors graduate from THINK Global School, they've visited more countries than most people will see in their entire lifetimes. That's because THINK doesn't operate like a traditional high school. Though its headquarters are in New York City, the independent school doesn't have a physical...

American education catches a lot of flack for falling behind other countries in global rankings, but test scores aren't everything. The truth is, some of the most cutting-edge learning takes place on US soil. We consulted education experts from Google as well as past assessments from InnoveEdu and Noodle to arrive at a comprehensive list of schools that embody innovation in a variety of forms...

(Item is in Swedish) Ett klassrum ska skapas. Strålkastaren ska hålla publiken fokuserad på huvudkaraktären i scenens främre högra hörn. Under tiden ska en enkel skolmiljö växa fram genom att stolar ställs på rad i mörkret. Men det är för få som bär och det blir alldeles för ljudligt.

Most schools organise field trips -- at THINK Global, the school is the trip. Since 2010, the travelling boarding school has been spending each three-month term in a different country, moving its 20 staff and 45 teenage students from Athens to Costa Rica in the space...

Archery in Bhutan, snowshoeing in Sweden, discussing politics with Noam Chomsky and visiting a camel fair in India – this is just an average year at the world’s first “nomadic boarding school”. Students who want to learn about the world at first hand..  

They are doing away with dusty chalkboards, heavy textbooks, one-sided lectures, and bells reminiscent of factory shift-change signals. Some have forgone traditional school buildings altogether...  

Many students dream of taking time off of school to travel. But at this high school, traveling is school. THINK Global School takes high school students traveling through nine countries over the course of three years. While moving from country to country every three to six months, they take...    

On June 23rd, Emma Dollery, a resident of Zambia, will experience her high school graduation in the same way that many teenagers do. There will be the matriculation process and a gleeful celebration full of proud parents. For Emma though, one thing will be drastically different: her graduation..  

School visits are a great way to learn and key to developing an innovation mindset. Based on a couple thousand school visits and with help from colleagues and readers, we’ve compiled a list of 100 schools worth visits.