As a group we worked with about 10 different organization all taking different parts in solving education inequality. Our fieldwork stretched from watching movies, making phone calls, lobbying and hands on tutoring kids. This stage taught us so much. We started not even knowing all the different types of school and what differentiate them. We…
Renee Shau
by Anna
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Renee Shaw works at a Public School in Arlington, Virginia. Just a year after their school was renovated in 2004, they were already short on space. Renovating again would cost too much money so instead they added a trailer. When renovation schools, the state goes in order to all the schools to renovate them. With…
Albany
by Anna
Parents Meeting
by Anna
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School around the 5 boroughs are getting parts of their education taken away in different ways. Some parents send their kids to a school that has a homework help program to find out when they get there that that program has been discontinued due to shortage of funding. Robotics teams and computer classes have been…
Breakfast With Santa
by Anna
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Breakfast with Santa was a very informative event where we went to St. Brigid School and helped at a holiday bash. There was food that Ryann helped dish out and a arts and crafts table where Sophie, Reggi, Elisabeth and I settled in at. There were four areas, one for coloring, one for candy cane ornament making,…
Jump Start Breakfast
by Anna
PS 98
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The Go Project
by Anna
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The Go Project is an organization that tutors children that are behind in school. They tutor over 600 children across four sites. The started out tutoring 15 children of whom they would drive around and collect for tutoring. They have since grown to help children 1st-5th grade. We arrived in the morning to have a…
Maria Bautista, Alliance for Quality Education
by Anna
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Today we met with Maria from the Alliance for Quality Education. They work on getting the government to give Public Schools the funding they need and deserve. They often sue the government for underfunding public schools. She spoke to us about “the myth of charter schools” and how yes, they seem like a great solution…
Halee Sage, Teach for America
by Anna
Beyond Measure
by Anna
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Beyond Measure was a very informative film that really made me realize how unfair it was to judge students based off one test. We are so lucky to have projects built into our curriculum but some public schools do not have the resources to do that. Children all have different learning styles and it does…
Waiting For Superman
by Anna
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Waiting For Superman was a very interesting movie which made us realize that Charter Schools were an option. I was surprised how hard it was to get into the Charter Schools. I think the lottery is so unfair because there could be a kid with so much potential who is unable to reach their potential because…