The Urban Assembly
The Urban Assembly is a non-profit organization that creates and manages a growing network of small New York City public secondary schools. We are dedicated to empowering underserved students by providing them with the academic and life skills necessary for college and career success.
www.UrbanAssembly.org
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There’s an article in The NY Times’ SchoolBook blog about Cynthia McAllister and the Learning Cultures curriculum. Several Urban Assembly schools have had great success using her techniques.
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How to choose Summer Reading for students.
Reading literature should be intentional. The problem with much summer reading is that the intention is unclear. Increasingly, students are asked to choose their own summer reading from Web sites like ReadKiddoRead, where the same advanced Real World Fiction category includes “The Catcher in the Rye” and “Flipped,” by Wendelin Van Draanen, which centers on divorce and kissing. Both books can be enjoyed by middle schoolers, but how will the seventh grader determine which one to pick?
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The College Board set up a display at the National Mall of 857 desks representing the 857 students who drop out of American high schools every hour of every school day.
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Remembering a Murrow H.S. Student Named Adam Yauch
Adam Yauch, a founding member of the Beastie Boys who died of cancer last week, attended Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn. One of his teachers, Judith Berezin List, remembers having him in her class as a gangly freshman in 1979. She wrote this piece for the Murrow Network, the student newspaper. It has been lightly edited.
