The author offers insightful answers based on her experience as a classroom teacher at the Science Leadership Academy, a public high school in Philadelphia that offers a rigorous college-prep curriculum and boasts a 99 percent graduation rate. Outlined is a framework for learning structured around five core values: inquiry, research, collaboration, presentation, and reflection.

1. Education for the information age -- 2. Constructing inquiry -- 3. Facilitating research -- 4. Integrating collaboration -- 5. Perfecting presentation -- 6. Making reflection relevant -- 7. Embracing the culture : schoolwide practices.