Editor's Summary
16 June 2005
What's the attraction?
Magnet high schools specializing in science, technology and mathematics have been going for twenty years in the United States. Are the achievements of their alumni a vindication of these 'nerd schools'?
News Feature: Science education: Hothouse High
Do US high schools dedicated to science generate future academics or burnt-out whiz kids? Kendall Powell catches up with some of the first pupils to graduate from 'nerd school'.
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