Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Patrice Edwards teaches second grade at Beecher Elementary, a public school in New Haven, Conn., where most of her students wear maroon-plaid uniforms. That's the first indication that something unusual is going on. Here's the second: on a recent September morning, as the 25 children in Edwards' class sat cross-legged on the floor passing a big blue ball around, they whispered compliments to each other. "You're a nice speller." "You've got pretty handwriting." "You are a good artist." A soothing calm settled in the room. For the moment, traditional academics were nowhere...
...ball-rolling game--into the fabric of an ordinary school day. School officials say problem-solving and stress-management skills are as essential as literature and long division to a '90s education. "We believe it needs to be comprehensive, just like science and math," says Merrie Harrison, a seventh-grade teacher. "Every child, every school, every year...
...children; it makes us want to achieve and lift ourselves and others." Not since The Waltons has America seen a family so well adjusted. "We wanted our children to work in school and get as much education as possible," Covey writes. "We focused primarily on learning, not grades, and we hardly ever had to encourage the children to do their homework. We rarely saw a grade lower than A minus...
...Leadership School, and it is a public school in East Harlem. Opened last year in an effort to boost girls' confidence and to provide a supportive and challenging academic environment, the experimental charter school on 106th Street should be reveling in its success. The school admitted 55 seventh-grade girls for the year 1996-97 and it re-opened its doors this September to 165 girls in the seventh through the ninth grades...
...fall of 2000, the Young Women's Leadership School plans on housing a full junior high and high school, grades seven to 12. Every single girl admitted to the seventh grade class returned to the school except for one girl whose family left New York City. More than two applications came in for each of the 165 spots open this year...