Word: meier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Meier, who has since moved on to start a school in Boston, has had her mainstream critics. But she put up numbers that were astonishing, given the secondary school's impoverished surroundings: 90% of the graduates went on to college, some of them to Ivy League schools...
Central Park East Secondary School is an experiment that has withstood the test of time. A few years ago, it was one of the most celebrated alternative schools in the country. Deborah Meier, its founder in 1985, was the first public school teacher ever awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, and she wrote a book about her experience, The Power of Their Ideas...
Teachers say the school has actually got better in some ways since Deborah Meier left. "Pioneering is exhilarating," said one, "but it is also exhausting." David Smith, a former humanities teacher, now director of the school, brings a sense of calm to the hallways. (The kids, as they do with all of their teachers, call him by his first name.) "Every so often," says Smith, "a student will tell me, 'I don't know how to do that.' And my reply is, 'You don't know how to do that--yet.' That's an empowering word: yet. Our purpose...
...Meier remarked that such schools can be accomplished within larger schools...
...Listening to Deborah Meier and her fellow educators allowed me to look at the utopian experience that is the center of our course creating schools," he said...