Pioneering program turns high school into spy school

It’s a boost for troubled campus, but critics warn of a ‘troubling landmark’

By Bob Drogin / The Bulletin
June 18, 2009

FORT MEADE, Md. — Flanked by hand-drawn posters about terrorist groups, from al-Qaida to the Ku Klux Klan, Tina Edler solemnly addressed her ninth-grade students. “One new vocabulary word today is ‘agro-terrorism,’” she said.

The meaning....

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