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Talk of Arizona
Fall 2014
Emeritus Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University Gene V. Glass said that he thinks the advanced curriculum and courses, among other issues at BASIS, can be seen as unfair and “strikes” a suspicion within him.
Glass has a blog, Education in Two Worlds, where he gives his views regarding issues and politics wrapped up in certain educational systems.
In one post he voiced the concerns with the .
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a senior at BASIS Scottsdale, Tia Forsman, said. “You want to learn because you know it is interesting and you are into it as much as the teachers are.”
BASIS schools also face criticism.
Emeritus Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University Gene V. Glass says BASIS students run "this gauntlet of examinations” and too many students are driven out.