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During the first year of the project, Harvard worked with Roxbury to develop "clustering," a system in which six teachers worked together as a group and taught core courses to all ninth graders. "We had something going," Nancy Banton, a math teacher said. Math teacher Chuck Williams said the cluster had close contact with Harvard and the cluster's structure facilitated field trips and utilization of resources in general. Over the summer, the city transferred 13 teachers, including two of the six cluster teachers, to other schools. This year the cluster did not start up again, and the remaining teachers...
...biggest disappointments of the Roxbury/Harvard project is that slightly over half of Roxbury's teachers remain uninvolved with the inservice workshops and apparently uninterested in the project. Banton argues that until the project involves the faculty, it can only supplement Roxbury education--it can't really change...
Besides an incredible high school program which has produced such old stars as Wilt Chamberlain and Walt Hazzard, and recent pros Mike Banton, Geoff Petrie, and Ollie Johnson--all ten-point plus men--Philadelphia's city colleges have developed some incredibly competitive teams...