If you want to find a student-oriented, progressive program that works look no further than our own Chugach School District. I took my son, who has a genius IQ, out of the Anchorage public school system after 6th grade. He was bored and starting to get into trouble. He enrolled in Chugach’s home school program. They have very high requirements for advancing from one level (they don’t use grades) to the next. It is up to the student to develop projects that are relevant to him that will meet the assessment requirements. There is a strong emphasis on integration: understanding how what you do in social studies relates to what you do in science, for example. Chugach was the first education program to win the prestigious Malcolm Baldwin reward. They then received a large grant from Bill Gates to spread their program to other schools around the country. It is a great program that works and has the data to back it up.