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Each class is assigned a specific university and named after its team: the Long Horns, the Tarheels, the Golden Bears, for instance. And those schools’ flags are hung along the entire perimeter of the Learning Lab/cafeteria where students congregate multiple times a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every fall, the school takes a pilgrimage to a university. Last September it was to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Eleven school buses were filled to capacity with students and parents from the three Rocketship schools – more than 1,000 people in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had five-year-olds asking questions about what they need to do to prepare themselves to come to this school,” said Preston Smith, co-founder and Chief Achievement Officer of Rocketship. 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Each class is assigned a specific university and named after its team: the Long Horns, the Tarheels, the Golden Bears, for instance. And those schools’ flags are hung along the entire perimeter of the Learning Lab/cafeteria where students congregate multiple times a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every fall, the school takes a pilgrimage to a university. Last September it was to the University of California, Santa Cruz. Eleven school buses were filled to capacity with students and parents from the three Rocketship schools – more than 1,000 people in total.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had five-year-olds asking questions about what they need to do to prepare themselves to come to this school,” said Preston Smith, co-founder and Chief Achievement Officer of Rocketship. 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What parents and educators expect from each student, and what she expects from herself, has a tremendous effect on how a student fares in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Sintia Marquez, a fifth-grader at \u003ca href=\"http://www.rsed.org/\">Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary\u003c/a>, expectations are high, both on the part of her parents and her teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she’s naturally a high achiever – well above grade level in both literacy and math – that foundation of support and encouragement from her parents and teachers is helping her forge ahead, even in a public charter school where more than 90% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch and 70% for whom English is a second language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sintia’s mother was allowed to progress only to middle school in Mexico. She’s a housekeeper now, and her father finds work as a contractor and a restaurant worker. “Sintia can’t say that I have a career that she can be proud of,” said Livier Maria Marquez in the one-bedroom guesthouse she shares with her husband and two daughters. “One of my hopes is for her to go to college. She really wants to go to Stanford or Santa Clara.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Remediation occurres in this sort of seamless, automated way.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>If the present is any indication of the future, Sintia is well on her way there. In June, she’ll graduate from Rocketship, one of three branded charter schools in the area that has plans to expand across the state and across the country. 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"content": "\u003cp>http://youtu.be/NS2uTchaTrg?hd=1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>As her mother saw it, Sintia Marquez\u003c/strong> was too smart for her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She'd outpaced her school's ability to keep up with her by fourth grade. So her mother moved Sintia to a new school, a charter called \u003ca href=\"http://rsed.org/index.php?page=mateo-sheedy-elementary\">Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary\u003c/a>, which focuses on the concept of individualized learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What's different about Rocketship is the school's focus on allowing students to progress at their own pace. Teachers introduce new concepts in class, and students practice the material they've learned in a computer lab, a system called hybrid learning. 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