The time has come.
High schools have to change.
For Pinizzotto, the creation of the Missouri Academy was a personal quest. Miller studied the various experiments in educating precocious and gifted kids at Johns Hopkins University and the North Carolina School for Science and Math. With good monitoring and social support, he didn't see any reason why brainy teenagers couldn't take on the intellectual challenge of college. Almost half are female. One of Pinizzotto's own students wound up a finalist in the famous Intel Science Talent Search, the nation's top recognition for high school students' research in science.