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Meridian Academy uses student-directed education

Brookline private school shies away from a standardized focus that gets in way of learning

By Kathleen Burge

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 29, 2011

Meridian Academy in Brookline is most remarkable for what it does not do: grade or test students, calculate GPAs, or ring bells to signal the end of class. Joshua Abrams and other founders of the school, which has 34 students in sixth through 12th grade, believe that students learn best when their academic career is not measured by how well they memorize information and repeat it back quickly on tests.

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