Schools Rejigger 3 R's for Online Generation

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New Jersey high schools are facing one of their toughest challenges yet: the Internet generation.

"We get impatient," said Daniel O'Keefe, a 17-year-old senior at River Dell Regional High School. "High school students are not stupid, they want to know what the relevance of what they are learning is. If we have to read 'Hamlet,' what is the connection to today? Why?"

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Schools Rejigger 3 R's for Online Generation

Educators are concerned that high school students, with a World Wide Web of information at their fingertips, are less interested in standard reading, writing and arithmetic less...

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