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Student Press Initiative
The Student Press Initiative (SPI) at Teachers College, Columbia University, is a professional development program for teachers, which uses publication as a tool to teach literacy skills. Publication, or "Going Public," entails everything from publishing professionally bound books of student writing and organizing community-based panel discussions to developing downloadable MP3s and staging theatrical performances. This not-for-profit educational organization partners with schools to transform classrooms into mini-publishing houses that celebrate student voice, activism and achievement. Founded in 2002, SPI provides intensive consultation and curriculum planning resources to classroom teachers in its partner schools, and publishes the culminating student-authored projects. According to the organization’s website, SPI has partnered with over 60 schools over the past seven years. The goal of the partnerships is to link Teachers College resources with classrooms across the nation. Th ...
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501(c)(3)
A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the US. 501(c)(3) tax-exemptions apply to entities that are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, literary or educational purposes, for testing for public safety, to foster national or international amateur sports competition, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals. 501(c)(3) exemption applies also for any non-incorporated community chest, fund, cooperating association or foundation organized and operated exclusively for those purposes.IR ...
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Eliot Wigginton
Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator. He is most widely known for developing with his high school students the Foxfire Project, a writing project consisting of interviews and stories about Appalachia. The project was developed into a magazine and series of best-selling ''Foxfire'' books. The series comprised essays and articles by high school students from Rabun County, Georgia focusing on Appalachian culture. In 1987, Wigginton was named "Georgia Teacher of the Year," and in 1989, he was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. In 1992, Wigginton confessed to and was convicted of child molestation. Early life Brooks Eliot Wigginton was born in West Virginia on November 9, 1942. His mother, Lucy Freelove Smith Wigginton, died eleven days later of "pneunomia due to acute pulmonary edema," according to her death certificate. His maternal grandmother, Margaret Pollard Smith, was an assoc ...
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New York City Lab School For Collaborative Studies
The New York City Lab School for Collaborative Studies is a secondary school in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It serves students in grades 6–12 and was described as one of the best schools in Manhattan in 2010 by the ''New York Post'' and CUNY. The school is a part of the New York City Department of Education. Admission Admission into the 6th grade is based on an entrance exam consisting of one page of mathematics problems and an essay. For admission into the 9th grade, students must follow the DOE high school admissions process. As of 2013, admissions requirements for the high school are a minimum of 85% in all 7th grade classes and a grade of 3 to 4 (or a score of 650) in the 7th grade reading and math exams. Admission into both the 6th and 9th grades is competitive, with 3000 students applying for 190 places in the 6th grade and with approximately 3000 students applying for 136 places in the 9th grade. Lab Middle and Lab High are two discrete scho ...
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Millennium Art Academy
Millennium Art Academy (M.A.A) first opened its doors in September 2003 in the Bronx. Originally located on the Herbert H. Lehman High School, Herbert H. Lehman Educational Campus the Academy moved after its first year to the Adlai E. Stevenson Campus. It is one of six small schools located on the Stevenson campus and enjoys the highest daily attendance rate of all - 92%. Its founder and former principal, Maxine Nodel, a graduate of Cooper Union, former student of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, and children's author who has written educational material for the ''Children's Television Workshop'', was named one of New York City's top principals when she was awarded a ''Cahn Fellowship Award'' for Distinguished Principals at Columbia Teacher's College in 2005. M.A.A received an award for excellence in intergenerational education from Edwin Méndez-Santiago, Commissioner of the New York City Department for the Aging, at the Loeb Boat House in Central Park in June 2005. M.A.A has appeared i ...
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Long Island City High School
Long Island City High School, commonly abbreviated L.I.C. or LICHS, is a public high school in Long Island City, Queens, New York City. The present building was built in 1995. The school had an enrollment of around 2,500 in 2015. Demographics As of the 2013–2014 school year, Long Island City High School was 62% Hispanic/Latino, 15% Asian, 12% black and 10% white. Background The school, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the New York City Department of Education, and has an overall 59% graduation rate which includes special education students and ESL (English as a Second Language) students. The highest graduation rates in the past few years have been the class of 2010 with 70% and the class of 2011 with 89%. Long Island City High School has a significant population of first-generation immigrants as students. The school also has award-winning courses in music and culinary arts. The Music department consist of various levels of strings, orchestra, band, and choir. Th ...
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Holcombe L Rucker School Of Community Research
Holcombe may refer to: Places ;United Kingdom * Holcombe, Greater Manchester * Holcombe, East Devon * Holcombe, Somerset * Holcombe, Teignbridge, Devon * Holcombe Manor, Chatham, Kent * Holcombe Rogus, Devon * Holcombe Court, Devon * Holcombe Burnell, a Devon parish ;United States * Holcombe, Wisconsin, unincorporated community * Lake Holcombe, Wisconsin, town * Holcombe Flowage Holcombe Flowage is a reservoir on the Chippewa River in Chippewa County and Rusk County, Wisconsin. The dam stands between the towns of Birch Creek and Lake Holcombe, just west of the settlement of Holcombe, Wisconsin, in Chippewa County, w ..., recreation area, Wisconsin Other uses * Holcombe (surname) * Holcombe Hockey Club, Rochester, Kent * Holcombe Legion, a unit in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War See also * Holcomb (other) {{disambiguation, geo ...
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Hoboken High School
Hoboken High School (HHS) is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades, located in Hoboken, in Hudson County, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the Hoboken Public Schools. The school has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Elementary and Secondary Schools since 1928. Starting in the 2013–14 school year, the school had operated as a combined junior-senior high school. In 2016–17, the middle school was split off to serve grades seven and eight, with plans to move the middle school to the A.J. Demarest building. As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 468 students and 46.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.1:1. There were 315 students (67.3% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 19 (4.1% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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Hempstead High School (New York)
Hempstead High School is a public high school located in Hempstead (village), New York, Hempstead, New York (state), New York, United States. It is the Hempstead Union Free School District's only high school. As of the 2014-15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,226 students and 116.0 classroom teachers (on an full-time equivalent, FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 19.2:1. There were 1,346 students (60.5% of enrollment) eligible for National School Lunch Act, free lunch and 34 (1.5% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.School data for Hempstead High School
National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 12, 2016.


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DeWitt Clinton High School
, motto_translation = Without Work Nothing Is Accomplished , image = DeWitt Clinton High School front entrance IMG 7441 HLG.jpg , seal_image = File:Clinton News.JPG , seal_size = 124px , seal_alt = , established = , type = Public high school , principal = Pierre Orbe , teaching_staff = 87.80 ( FTE) (2017–18) , enrollment = 1,228 (2017–18) , us_nces_school_id = , ratio = 13.99 (2017–18) , grades = 9– 12 , team name = Governors , colors = Red black , streetaddress = 100 West Mosholu Parkway South , city = The Bronx , zipcode = 10468 , state = New York , country = USA , newspaper = The Clinton News , yearbook = Clintonian ...
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Brooklyn Preparatory High School
Brooklyn Preparatory High School is a 9-12th grade college-focused public high school in Brooklyn, New York. It has 500 students enrolled. Academics As Brooklyn Prep is a college prep high school, students take four years of the major core subjects, and are provided opportunities for Advanced Placement Advanced Placement (AP) is a program in the United States and Canada created by the College Board which offers college-level curricula and examinations to high school students. American colleges and universities may grant placement and course ... and elective courses as well. Senior Capstone Senior Capstone is a course designed to build college level reading, writing and discussion for senior students. During the first semester, students study topics in government and economics, choosing their own case studies. The second semester, students research a relevant topic of their choosing, write an academic research paper, and present their research to the school community ...
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Bayard Rustin High School For The Humanities
The Bayard Rustin Educational Complex – also known as the Humanities Educational Complex – at West 18th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, is a "vertical campus" of the New York City Department of Education which contains a number of small public schools, most of them high schools — grades 9 through 12 – along with one combined middle and high school – grades 6 through 12. The building formerly housed Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities (M440), a comprehensive school which graduated its last class in the 2011-2012 school year. History The building – which is actually two buildings, one on 18th Street and the other on 19th Street, connected in the middle – was constructed in 1930 as Textile High School, a vocational high school for the textile trades, complete with a textile mill in the basement; the school yearbook was titled ''The Loom''. It was later renamed Straubenmuller ...
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Peter Elbow
Peter Elbow (14 April 1935) is a Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he also directed the Writing Program from 1996 until 2000. He writes about theory, practice, and pedagogy, and has authored several books and papers. He is one of the pioneers of freewriting. Biography In the introduction to the second edition of ''Writing Without Teachers'', Elbow says that his interest in writing practices came from his own difficulty with writing. He attended Proctor Academy and Williams College from 1953 to 1957. While at Exeter College, Oxford University, on scholarship from Williams, he found himself unable to write the assigned essays. When he began his PhD in English at Harvard University, his writing difficulties persisted, causing him to leave in the first year of his studies. Elbow began teaching, first as an instructor at MIT from 1960–1963, and then as one of five founding members of Franconia College from 1963–1965. It was at Franconia ...
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