by David Safier
BASIS Tucson has been hailed as one of the top schools in the U.S., traditional or charter, for a number of years. Now it's being featured in a documentary film, 2 Million Minutes: A 21st Century Solution. It will be playing at the Fox Theater October 1. You can watch the trailer here.
The film is the second in the series. The first, Two Million Minutes, showed how other countries are outstripping the U.S. in the ways they educate their children. This one features BASIS' two campuses, here and in Scottsdale, as a homegrown solution.
I haven't seen the first film, and I only know what everyone knows about BASIS. My sense is that most cross-national educational comparisons have to be viewed with a healthy skepticism, and I'm not sure BASIS presents a model that can be transferred to other settings with a different type of student. That being said, this is quite an honor, and probably a well deserved one, for the Tucson charter.
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