Get into college. How great is that . This past june, 100 of the graduating senior class was accepted to fouryear colleges and universities. All right, the question we have how do you do that . And what can other schools learn from the new Heights Academy Charter School . Here to discuss their approach to education christina brown, executive director of the school, and milenny then, a latina instructor from the school, teaches italian. Ill hear about that in just a second. Because that is something that it sets the bar high, does it not, for other schools. It does. Is it at the point where youre getting phone calls from administrators and teachers at other schools that hear a statistic like that and say just what i said, how do you do that . Not yet. Not yet . But i bet were working toward it. Youre working towards it. Give me some basic rules or techniques that help you reach that stunning figure. What is it that you and milenny and the staff at the school 85. All 85 kids in this year
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