LONDON — On Friday the world's most popular modern art museum, the Tate Modern, opens a new 10 -
story wing designed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
Tenth - grade world history students interview Chinese immigrants and record their
stories; ninth - grade physical science students
design and strength - test mock airplane
wings; junior English students research, write, and illustrate children's nonfiction picture books; algebra students of all grades investigate a public - transit problem and propose solutions to city officials; sophomore geometry students build scale models of museums they've
designed; students across the grades in an environmental - stewardship class raise public awareness of a polluted river — all are examples of academically challenging projects that also manage to engage the minds, hands, and hearts of most high school students across a wide range of abilities and interests.
One of the most concerning elements of the plan, according to the letter, is that a beloved garden,
designed by landscape architect Russell Page in 1977, would have to be destroyed to make way for a new six -
story wing.