SF's Startup School That Doesn't 'Do Books' Set To Graduate First Class Of New Education Model
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS News) - Friday is graduation day at an unusual K-8 school in California -- and there is only one graduate. He's part of an experiment in San Francisco called AltSchool that could re-define how your kids get an education, reports Ben Tracy.
Curiel-Friedman is 13 years old. He's the only 8th grader and about to become the first graduate of AltSchool.
"Here, we don't do textbooks. We do computers and I really like that," student Zev Curiel-Friedman said.
When the kids arrive at the school, the first thing they do is swipe in on a tablet on the wall and then grab their own tablet for class.
CBS's Ben Tracy went inside AltSchool to see why they are describing it as a new operating system for education.
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