New Tech High School has made great strides in showing other educational
institutions the benefits of technology driven 21 st century education. As of 2006, New
Tech High School was only one of 14 schools in the U.S. that were dedicated to
technologically based collaborative learning environments that genuinely reinforce 21 st
century instructional philosophy. According to Pearlman (2006a), that number is
expected to double in the coming years. Over the last eight years, these details have
culminated into approximately 89 percent of New Tech’s seniors go onto to post-
secondary schools while 40 percent of them move into mathematics and sciences (p. 8).
New Tech High School in Napa, California has become a driving force in the
progressivism of the 21 st century education movement. Unfortunately, New Tech High
School is one of a limited number of charter schools that has built its educational vision
with a solid foundation in 21 st century skills. New Tech High School has been recognized
as the first California Digital School, a New American High School, one of the initial
grantees of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation chosen to replicate its model, and as a
national model secondary school. Innovations such as those of New Tech High School
must become the paradigms for many public educational reforms in order to help our
high school students succeed in a global market (Barseghian, 2011b).