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he Education Development Center, what they would tell an administrator who visited the classroom during their work on the project, one student piped up, "I'd tell them they should leave, because there's learning going on and they don't want to get in the way."

Such a response is not at all unusual from students who are engaged in project-based learning, says Kantrov. The Education Development Center is a global nonprofit organization that designs, delivers, and evaluates innovative instructional programs--and many of these embrace learning through inquiry-based projects.

The California-based Buck Institute for Education, an organization committed to the use of project-based learning worldwide, defines the concept as "a systematic teaching method that engages students in learning knowledge and skills through an extended inquiry process structured around complex, authentic questions and carefully designed products and tasks."

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