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As the school year winds down, our May 2016 issue gets up to speed on three Gulf Coast schools that experiment with innovative, experiential learning environments: Goldie Feldman Academy, Visible Men Academy and State College of Florida Collegiate School. In Models in Learning we explore how these schools are pushing the next generation to develop real-world skills. Goldie Feldman Academy takes one such hands-on approachthird and fourth grade students work in conjunction with NASA to cultivate tomatoes that would survive in space. “The goal is to find what would be the best to grow on Mars,” says fourth grader Carolyn Caesar.

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