Cato Institute’s Friday Feature: CBA
Chesapeake Bay Academy was recently highlighted as the Cato Institute’s “Friday Feature”. The Cato Institute is a nonpartisan, independent public policy research organization.
“Individualized education is the name of the game at Chesapeake Bay Academy in Virginia Beach. Judy Jankowski, CBA’s Head of School, describes it as completely child centered. “In very traditional schools, there’s a teacher at the front of the room and it’s ‘I’m the teacher. Here’s the assignment. Here’s what I want you to do. Here’s how to do it,’” she says. But at Chesapeake Bay, kids are grouped by ability for core academics and able to work at their individual pace….”