Multicultural+Multomodal+Schools

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 * ** Innovative Schools, Academic Success **

** Innovative Schools, Academic Success & Funding **


 Our The purpose for teaching of TEAMS is envisioning schools where every student achieves academically, socially, and creatively. creatively with the assistance of teachers and mentors.
 * We examine multiculturally diverse schools that incorporate cultures, backgrounds, intelligences, and interests of all students into how teaching and learning happen in and out of the classroom. To address the many achievement gaps that plague today’s educational system, these schools endeavor to remake schooling with the goal of creating educational equity and excellence for everyone.**

Chicago's Urban Prep Academy whose Creed and  Funding is key to all efforts and resources. Less money collected for school structure set in motion successful learning and future goal attainment budgets makes fewer options for young male teens is one multiculturally diverse model. Promise Academy in Harlem, where a growth mindset is modeled by all staff and supported by the students and their families is another. Emma Lazarus High School, in New York, NY is exclusively for high school ELL learners to learn English while learning curriculum and then attend college. Coral Way Elementary School, in Miami, where teachers lead classes with high demand and high expectations for bilingual students in two languages, English and Spanish, educate lower income minority students who achieve highly and become biliterate and bicultural. Harvey Mudd College's Engineering, Science, and STEM programs invites, supports, and retains female students in STEM courses and careers at 40% of the total enrollment. Green Energy Biomedical and Engineering Pathways at Edison High School in Fresno, CA use multiple intelligences teaching and learning methods to prepare high school students from poor and minority neighborhoods to become college students and achieve engineering and science degrees. The Algebra Project conceived and developed for low income students and students of color, African American and Latino, to succeed in learning high school mathematics courses to go on to college and into professional careers. This is the life's work of Dr. Robert Moses, one of the originators of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Mississippi Project, 1964, an effort to enroll poor and minority voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Read the Creed for Chicago Prep 1. Do you think the purpose of a creed is different from posting school rules? Explain your thoughts about the similarities or differences between the two. 2. As you consider where you want to work, what would attract you to a school? Would you want to be in a school where administrators and faculty are aligned in a common purpose with a creed or values like those of Chicago Prep? students' learning.

** DIFFERENT INCOMES, DIFFERENT SCHOOLS **
 Recently we We examined the impact the that poverty and wealth have on education.


 * We learned how following the Brown v Board of Education legislation, segregation continued to impact communities and African American families through the redlining  of neighborhoods.**

concept reality today that schools are funded by local citizens through income taxes, we learned that schools struggle to provide all that they can for students, students. Poorer schools are lacking technology to support the teaching to multiple intelligences and lacking the resources to promote growth mindsets for all students.
 * Reflecting on the tax base and the **


 * We learned that because of these things, poor children tend to have lower aspirations when asked what they want to be when they grow up.**

//**Hear**//  the podcasts.

3.

//**Read**//

4.

//**Hear**//  the podcasts; transcripts are provided but please also hear the people speaking. Detroit 40 years ago attempted desegregation and the failed effort set forth policies that followed throughout the US. Reported 11/19/13 School Desegregation Thwarted

5. ** Who was responsible for countermanding the decisions that would have guaranteed implementation of the integration effort? **
 * If Detroit's city schools had been allowed to implement the policy of integration by busing what do you think might be the results of that decision in the past 40 years? **

60 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, America's schools remain segregated. Reported April 17, 2014 Gains of Integration Eroded Especially In The South

6. ** Did you know any of the information from the podcast,  //Probe: Gains of Integration Eroded, Especially In The South//  ? **
 * Does this information provide ideas about why Dr.Robert Moses went south to Baltimore and to Mississippi to introduce //The Algebra Project//  into high schools? **

 Read the Creed for Chicago Prep  1. Do you think the purpose of a creed is different from posting school rules? Explain your thoughts about the similarities or differences between the two.  2. As you consider where you want to work, what would attract you to a school?  Would you want to be in a school where administrators and faculty are aligned in a common purpose with a creed or values like those of Chicago Prep?

// Everyone is smart. . . // // Everyone is a learner. . . // // Everyone is a teacher. . . // // . . . under favorable conditions. // --Jerome Bruner. psychologist, professor of psychology

-- Aldous Huxley, writer || "Chance favors the prepared mind." --Louis Pasteur, chemist, microbiologist
 * || "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self ."

Copy and paste each key topic and the questions before writing your responses. Print at font size 8. __** Heading for the assignment **__

Name Weekly Topic: ** Envisioning Multicultural Schools ** Class date due: **12-08-15** Tutoring Site Total Tutoring Hours Total

Innovative Schools, Academic Success
 * 1.**  ** Do you think the purpose of a creed is different from posting school rules? Explain your thoughts about the similarities or differences between the two. **


 * 2.**  ** As you consider where you want to work, what would attract you to a school? **
 * Would you want to be in a school where administrators and faculty are aligned in a common purpose with a creed or values like those of Chicago Prep? **

Different Incomes, Different Schools


 * 3.**


 * 4.**


 * 5.**  ** Who was responsible for countermanding the decisions that would have guaranteed implementation of the integration effort? **
 * If Detroit's city schools had been allowed to implement the policy of integration by busing what do you think might be the results of that decision in the past 40 years? **


 * 6. **  ** Did you know any of the information from the podcast,  //Probe: Gains of Integration Eroded, Especially In The South//  ? **
 * Does this information provide ideas about why Dr.Robert Moses went south to Baltimore and to Mississippi to introduce //The Algebra Project//  into high schools? **

The assignment ends here. Tuesday we will see other models of multiculturally diverse schools which envision academic success for all students.


 * Additional Resources **


 * School Finance **

[| Education Funding in Massachusetts: By District]

====  **  //New York's Harbor School//  first in Bushwick Brooklyn and relocated to Governers Island **  ====

 Sea Change in Education: New York's Harbor School 0:00-3:15 We are walking back in time, way way back; picture yourself at age 14. Can you go back to middle school and see yourself at age 14? Picture yourself in school. Do you see yourself in the building? Is there a class that you look forward to attending? Back then, if you had been offered a chance to make a choice, was there another kind of school you wanted to attend at 14? What is it?

Would you have chosen a science school?

 New York Harbor School on Govenors Island
 * Open **  ** ABOUT: **   ** MISSION/ HISTORY/ LOCATION/ PRESS **   ** to learn about the school. **

Two Directions of Study Classroom on the Water from the website

The Urban Assembly: Our Schools

In Bronx River, Helping Oysters Stage Comback

Classroom on the Water

** Different Incomes, Different Schools **
[| U.S. Schools Reach Majority-Minority Milestone]

In Fall 2014, Latino, African American and Asian students will be a majority of students (50.3%) in the nation's public schools. Click for a [| table of enrollment projections through 2023] from the Digest of Education Statistics.

Detroit 40 years ago attempted desegregation and the failed effort set the policies that followed throughout the U.S. School Desegregation Thwarted

How School Funding Works in Massachusetts


 * Innovative Schools, Academic Success **

Moving Urban Schools Forward Massive underfunding of inner city schools has not occurred because there are no funds to spend, but how those funds are spent. Dr. __ [| Pedro Noguera] __, professor at UCLA and the Director of the  [| Center for the Study of School Transformation] describes how Brockton, MA succeeds w/a population of poor kids.

 Sugata Mitra TED talk:  http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

 Chicago's Urban Prep Academy whose Creed and school structure set in motion successful learning and future goal attainment for young male teens is one multiculturally diverse model.

 Promise Academy in Harlem, where a growth mindset is modeled by all staff and supported by the students and their families is another.

 Emma Lazarus High School, in New York, NY is exclusively for high school ELL learners to learn English while learning curriculum and then attend college.

 Coral Way Elementary School, in Miami, where teachers lead classes with high demand and high expectations for bilingual students in two languages, English and Spanish, educate lower income minority students who achieve highly and become biliterate and bicultural.

 Harvey Mudd College's Engineering, Science, and STEM programs invites, supports, and retains female students in STEM courses and careers at 40% of the total enrollment.

 Green Energy Biomedical and Engineering Pathways at Edison High School in Fresno, CA use multiple intelligences teaching and learning methods to prepare high school students from poor and minority neighborhoods to become college students and achieve engineering and science degrees.

 The Algebra Project conceived and developed for low income students and students of color, African American and Latino, to succeed in learning high school mathematics courses to go on to college and into professional careers. This is the life's work of Dr. Robert Moses, one of the originators of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Mississippi Project, 1964, an effort to enroll poor and minority voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.

 The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, North Carolina ,  **winner of last year's prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education,**   **instituted new organizational practices to achieve success for all students in the city schools.** Florida Virtual School P TEC 6-years of high school

[| Finland Secret Sauce: Its Teachers] discusses how to become a teacher in Finland, a country with some of the highest student achievement results in the world.

[| Back to School Already? Debate Continues Over Year-Round Benefits] discusses the advantages and disadvantages of going to school all year long without a lengthy 10 to 12 week summer break.


 * Digital Learning **

North Carolina School Engages Tech Generation With Digital Learning

[| Burlington High School in Massachusetts receives Apple Distinguished School Award for 2012-2013], one of 87 schools honored nationwide for technology integration.

Florida Virtual Schoo


 * Poverty **

Rich People Actually Don't Create The Jobs-Business Insider

15 Mind Blowing Facts About Inequality In America-Business Insider

Steering Young People Away from a Life Mixed Up with Gangs

Voices of Youth Radio: San Francisco Bay Area Students Find Danger Lurks To and From School

Chicago's Silent Watchmen Guard School Route As a youngster did you face any of the fears that these San Francisco and Chicago kids face in urban centers going back and forth to school? Do you think the volunteers standing watch as students walk to and from school ought to be paid for this by federal funds?

Jail Time For Sneaking Kids Into A Better School News update 9/27/11: "Ohio Gov. John Kasich, going against the unanimous opinion of the Ohio Parole Board, reduced the charges from felony to misdemeanor charges so that Kelley Williams-Bolar would not have a felony record which could block her hoped-for career in education." Christian Science Monitor: A Weekly Review Of Global News & Ideas, vol. 103/ issue 44 Knowing that school is where the door opens for future employment and wealth accumulation, what is your feeling about the situation of the mother in the news report? What do you think her options for her children's schools should be?

Jonathan Kozal has spent 50 years chronicling public education's funding inequities and its resulting lack of success for students in poor schools. // Death At An Early Age //, 1980, gained national attention but since its publication little has changed to address the inequities of public schools.

Read the transcript of the interview or listen to the conversation, whichever you prefer to do.  Jonathan Kozol speaks about kids that survive-inner-cities in a new book, Fire In The Ashes [| Read a preview of Fire in the Ashes.]



====  **  //New York's Harbor School//  first in Bushwick Brooklyn and relocated to Governers Island **====

 Sea Change in Education: New York's Harbor School 0:00-3:15 We are walking back in time, way way back; picture yourself at age 14. Can you go back to middle school and see yourself at age 14? Picture yourself in school. Do you see yourself in the building? Is there a class that you look forward to attending? Back then, if you had been offered a chance to make a choice, was there another kind of school you wanted to attend at 14? What is it?

Would you have chosen a science school?

 New York Harbor School on Govenors Island
 * Open **  ** ABOUT: **   ** MISSION/ HISTORY/ LOCATION/ PRESS **   ** to learn about the school. **

Two Directions of Study Classroom on the Water from the website

The Urban Assembly: Our Schools

In Bronx River, Helping Oysters Stage Comback

Classroom on the Water

 __   //**  High Tech High School,San Diego, CA  **//   __ High Tech High School: About

Videos by students & teachers
 *  Find // Jay Vavra, Amgen National Science Teacher of the Year //**

  ** Alphabet Soup: The A-Z of Cell Biology **

  ** Black Holes: A Children's Book **


 *  New Technology High Schools  **

New Technology High School: About

 Videos by students & teachers

I Am What I Learn: Troy Simon

An Amazing Turnaround, Warren, N.C.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> KQED's report for Groundbreaking Schools


 * What school reform or educational change practices are advocated by each school?
 * What elements of the school's design and curriculum do you believe will improve learning for students?
 * What might have been very effective for your own learning had you attended each of the schools you visited virtually?
 * Would you choose to teach in either school the Harbor School or the school you visited on the webquest? Why or why not?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Sugata Mitra TED talk: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [| http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html]

-- Jessamyn West, American writer ||
 * [[image:http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/666666_quotes.gif caption="external image 666666_quotes.gif"]] || A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."

[| http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/60minutes/main3954557.shtml]
 * A Visit To The Doomsday Vault:Scott Pelley Visits One Of The World's Most Unique Banks**

[| http://sciencefriday.com/blogs/11/26/2013/all-about-apples-some-history-a-recipe-and-recommendations.html?utm_source=Science+Friday+Mailing+List&utm_campaign=e247406aa3-Newsletter_November+29_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_10d8eab927-e247406aa3-4866430] 120%;">Poverty  **||**
 * Apples in America in the 1800s/Science Friday**

Digital Learning .... **||** Poverty  **||** Links are live in the section below for people absent 11/18 (Impacts of Poverty on Learning) who didn't see Promise Academy in Harlem or Emma Lazarus High School in New York City, and for those who forgot a program. Otherwise, you do not have to open these links as you read. ** Powered by Translate & Funding. . . . . . . . Different Incomes, Different Schools ||
 * ** Innovative Schools, Academic Success **

** Innovative Schools, Academic Success & Funding **


 Our The purpose for teaching of TEAMS is envisioning schools where every student achieves academically, socially, and creatively. creatively with the assistance of teachers and mentors.
 * We examine multiculturally diverse schools that incorporate cultures, backgrounds, intelligences, and interests of all students into how teaching and learning happen in and out of the classroom. To address the many achievement gaps that plague today’s educational system, these schools endeavor to remake schooling with the goal of creating educational equity and excellence for everyone.**

Chicago's Urban Prep Academy whose Creed and  Funding is key to all efforts and resources. Less money collected for school structure set in motion successful learning and future goal attainment budgets makes fewer options for young male teens is one multiculturally diverse model. Promise Academy in Harlem, where a growth mindset is modeled by all staff and supported by the students and their families is another. Emma Lazarus High School, in New York, NY is exclusively for high school ELL learners to learn English while learning curriculum and then attend college. Coral Way Elementary School, in Miami, where teachers lead classes with high demand and high expectations for bilingual students in two languages, English and Spanish, educate lower income minority students who achieve highly and become biliterate and bicultural. Harvey Mudd College's Engineering, Science, and STEM programs invites, supports, and retains female students in STEM courses and careers at 40% of the total enrollment. Green Energy Biomedical and Engineering Pathways at Edison High School in Fresno, CA use multiple intelligences teaching and learning methods to prepare high school students from poor and minority neighborhoods to become college students and achieve engineering and science degrees. The Algebra Project conceived and developed for low income students and students of color, African American and Latino, to succeed in learning high school mathematics courses to go on to college and into professional careers. This is the life's work of Dr. Robert Moses, one of the originators of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Mississippi Project, 1964, an effort to enroll poor and minority voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. Read the Creed for Chicago Prep 1. Do you think the purpose of a creed is different from posting school rules? Explain your thoughts about the similarities or differences between the two. 2. As you consider where you want to work, what would attract you to a school? Would you want to be in a school where administrators and faculty are aligned in a common purpose with a creed or values like those of Chicago Prep? students' learning.

** DIFFERENT INCOMES, DIFFERENT SCHOOLS **
 Recently we We examined the impact the that poverty and wealth have on education.


 * We learned how following the Brown v Board of Education legislation, segregation continued to impact communities and African American families through the redlining  of neighborhoods.**

concept reality today that schools are funded by local citizens through income taxes, we learned that schools struggle to provide all that they can for students, students. Poorer schools are lacking technology to support the teaching to multiple intelligences and lacking the resources to promote growth mindsets for all students.
 * Reflecting on the tax base and the **


 * We learned that because of these things, poor children tend to have lower aspirations when asked what they want to be when they grow up.**

//**Hear**//  the podcasts.

3.

//**Read**//

4.

//**Hear**//  the podcasts; transcripts are provided but please also hear the people speaking. Detroit 40 years ago attempted desegregation and the failed effort set forth policies that followed throughout the US. Reported 11/19/13 School Desegregation Thwarted

5. ** Who was responsible for countermanding the decisions that would have guaranteed implementation of the integration effort? **
 * If Detroit's city schools had been allowed to implement the policy of integration by busing what do you think might be the results of that decision in the past 40 years? **

60 years after Brown vs. Board of Education, America's schools remain segregated. Reported April 17, 2014 Gains of Integration Eroded Especially In The South

6. ** Did you know any of the information from the podcast,  //Probe: Gains of Integration Eroded, Especially In The South//  ? **
 * Does this information provide ideas about why Dr.Robert Moses went south to Baltimore and to Mississippi to introduce //The Algebra Project//  into high schools? **

 Read the Creed for Chicago Prep  1. Do you think the purpose of a creed is different from posting school rules? Explain your thoughts about the similarities or differences between the two.  2. As you consider where you want to work, what would attract you to a school?  Would you want to be in a school where administrators and faculty are aligned in a common purpose with a creed or values like those of Chicago Prep?

// Everyone is smart. . . // // Everyone is a learner. . . // // Everyone is a teacher. . . // // . . . under favorable conditions. // --Jerome Bruner. psychologist, professor of psychology

-- Aldous Huxley, writer || "Chance favors the prepared mind." --Louis Pasteur, chemist, microbiologist
 * || "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self ."

Copy and paste each key topic and the questions before writing your responses. Print at font size 8. __** Heading for the assignment **__

Name Weekly Topic: ** Envisioning Multicultural Schools ** Class date due: **12-08-15** Tutoring Site Total Tutoring Hours Total

Innovative Schools, Academic Success
 * 1.**  ** Do you think the purpose of a creed is different from posting school rules? Explain your thoughts about the similarities or differences between the two. **


 * 2.**  ** As you consider where you want to work, what would attract you to a school? **
 * Would you want to be in a school where administrators and faculty are aligned in a common purpose with a creed or values like those of Chicago Prep? **

Different Incomes, Different Schools


 * 3.**


 * 4.**


 * 5.**  ** Who was responsible for countermanding the decisions that would have guaranteed implementation of the integration effort? **
 * If Detroit's city schools had been allowed to implement the policy of integration by busing what do you think might be the results of that decision in the past 40 years? **


 * 6. **  ** Did you know any of the information from the podcast,  //Probe: Gains of Integration Eroded, Especially In The South//  ? **
 * Does this information provide ideas about why Dr.Robert Moses went south to Baltimore and to Mississippi to introduce //The Algebra Project//  into high schools? **

The assignment ends here. Tuesday we will see other models of multiculturally diverse schools which envision academic success for all students.


 * Additional Resources **


 * School Finance **

[| Education Funding in Massachusetts: By District]

====  **  //New York's Harbor School//  first in Bushwick Brooklyn and relocated to Governers Island **  ====

<span style="color: #000d80; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Sea Change in Education: New York's Harbor School 0:00-3:15 We are walking back in time, way way back; picture yourself at age 14. Can you go back to middle school and see yourself at age 14? Picture yourself in school. Do you see yourself in the building? Is there a class that you look forward to attending? Back then, if you had been offered a chance to make a choice, was there another kind of school you wanted to attend at 14? What is it?

Would you have chosen a science school?

<span style="color: #000d80; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> New York Harbor School on Govenors Island
 * Open **  ** ABOUT: **   ** MISSION/ HISTORY/ LOCATION/ PRESS **   ** to learn about the school. **

Two Directions of Study Classroom on the Water from the website

The Urban Assembly: Our Schools

In Bronx River, Helping Oysters Stage Comback

Classroom on the Water

** Different Incomes, Different Schools **
[| U.S. Schools Reach Majority-Minority Milestone]

In Fall 2014, Latino, African American and Asian students will be a majority of students (50.3%) in the nation's public schools. Click for a [| table of enrollment projections through 2023] from the Digest of Education Statistics.

Detroit 40 years ago attempted desegregation and the failed effort set the policies that followed throughout the U.S. School Desegregation Thwarted

How School Funding Works in Massachusetts


 * Innovative Schools, Academic Success **

Moving Urban Schools Forward Massive underfunding of inner city schools has not occurred because there are no funds to spend, but how those funds are spent. Dr. __ [| Pedro Noguera] __, professor at UCLA and the Director of the <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #0099cc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> [| Center for the Study of School Transformation] describes how Brockton, MA succeeds w/a population of poor kids.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Sugata Mitra TED talk: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html

 Chicago's Urban Prep Academy whose Creed and school structure set in motion successful learning and future goal attainment for young male teens is one multiculturally diverse model.

 Promise Academy in Harlem, where a growth mindset is modeled by all staff and supported by the students and their families is another.

 Emma Lazarus High School, in New York, NY is exclusively for high school ELL learners to learn English while learning curriculum and then attend college.

 Coral Way Elementary School, in Miami, where teachers lead classes with high demand and high expectations for bilingual students in two languages, English and Spanish, educate lower income minority students who achieve highly and become biliterate and bicultural.

 Harvey Mudd College's Engineering, Science, and STEM programs invites, supports, and retains female students in STEM courses and careers at 40% of the total enrollment.

 Green Energy Biomedical and Engineering Pathways at Edison High School in Fresno, CA use multiple intelligences teaching and learning methods to prepare high school students from poor and minority neighborhoods to become college students and achieve engineering and science degrees.

 The Algebra Project conceived and developed for low income students and students of color, African American and Latino, to succeed in learning high school mathematics courses to go on to college and into professional careers. This is the life's work of Dr. Robert Moses, one of the originators of the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) Mississippi Project, 1964, an effort to enroll poor and minority voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer.

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The Charlotte-Mecklenburg School District, North Carolina ,  **winner of last year's prestigious Broad Prize for Urban Education,**   **instituted new organizational practices to achieve success for all students in the city schools.** Florida Virtual School P TEC 6-years of high school

[| Finland Secret Sauce: Its Teachers] discusses how to become a teacher in Finland, a country with some of the highest student achievement results in the world.

[| Back to School Already? Debate Continues Over Year-Round Benefits] discusses the advantages and disadvantages of going to school all year long without a lengthy 10 to 12 week summer break.


 * Digital Learning **

North Carolina School Engages Tech Generation With Digital Learning

[| Burlington High School in Massachusetts receives Apple Distinguished School Award for 2012-2013], one of 87 schools honored nationwide for technology integration.

Florida Virtual Schoo


 * Poverty **

Rich People Actually Don't Create The Jobs-Business Insider

15 Mind Blowing Facts About Inequality In America-Business Insider

Steering Young People Away from a Life Mixed Up with Gangs

Voices of Youth Radio: San Francisco Bay Area Students Find Danger Lurks To and From School

Chicago's Silent Watchmen Guard School Route As a youngster did you face any of the fears that these San Francisco and Chicago kids face in urban centers going back and forth to school? Do you think the volunteers standing watch as students walk to and from school ought to be paid for this by federal funds?

Jail Time For Sneaking Kids Into A Better School News update 9/27/11: "Ohio Gov. John Kasich, going against the unanimous opinion of the Ohio Parole Board, reduced the charges from felony to misdemeanor charges so that Kelley Williams-Bolar would not have a felony record which could block her hoped-for career in education." Christian Science Monitor: A Weekly Review Of Global News & Ideas, vol. 103/ issue 44 Knowing that school is where the door opens for future employment and wealth accumulation, what is your feeling about the situation of the mother in the news report? What do you think her options for her children's schools should be?

Jonathan Kozal has spent 50 years chronicling public education's funding inequities and its resulting lack of success for students in poor schools. // Death At An Early Age //, 1980, gained national attention but since its publication little has changed to address the inequities of public schools.

Read the transcript of the interview or listen to the conversation, whichever you prefer to do. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Jonathan Kozol speaks about kids that survive-inner-cities in a new book, Fire In The Ashes [| Read a preview of Fire in the Ashes.]



====  **  //New York's Harbor School//  first in Bushwick Brooklyn and relocated to Governers Island **====

<span style="color: #000d80; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Sea Change in Education: New York's Harbor School 0:00-3:15 We are walking back in time, way way back; picture yourself at age 14. Can you go back to middle school and see yourself at age 14? Picture yourself in school. Do you see yourself in the building? Is there a class that you look forward to attending? Back then, if you had been offered a chance to make a choice, was there another kind of school you wanted to attend at 14? What is it?

Would you have chosen a science school?

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000d80; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> New York Harbor School on Govenors Island
 * Open **  ** ABOUT: **   ** MISSION/ HISTORY/ LOCATION/ PRESS **   ** to learn about the school. **

Two Directions of Study Classroom on the Water from the website

The Urban Assembly: Our Schools

In Bronx River, Helping Oysters Stage Comback

Classroom on the Water

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> __   //**  High Tech High School,San Diego, CA  **//   __ High Tech High School: About

Videos by students & teachers
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Find //<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14.4px;"> Jay Vavra, Amgen National Science Teacher of the Year //**

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  ** Alphabet Soup: The A-Z of Cell Biology **

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">  ** Black Holes: A Children's Book **


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 15.3px;"> New Technology High Schools  **

New Technology High School: About

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Videos by students & teachers

I Am What I Learn: Troy Simon

An Amazing Turnaround, Warren, N.C.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> KQED's report for Groundbreaking Schools


 * What school reform or educational change practices are advocated by each school?
 * What elements of the school's design and curriculum do you believe will improve learning for students?
 * What might have been very effective for your own learning had you attended each of the schools you visited virtually?
 * Would you choose to teach in either school the Harbor School or the school you visited on the webquest? Why or why not?

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> Sugata Mitra TED talk: <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> [| http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_the_child_driven_education.html]

-- Jessamyn West, American writer ||
 * [[image:http://cdn.smartbrief.com/images/briefs2/common/666666_quotes.gif caption="external image 666666_quotes.gif"]] || A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever."

[| http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/60minutes/main3954557.shtml]
 * A Visit To The Doomsday Vault:Scott Pelley Visits One Of The World's Most Unique Banks**

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 * Apples in America in the 1800s/Science Friday**

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