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
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
Our bus left 1 Metro Tech Brooklyn at 6:30am and headed up through the Bronx making stops along the way to pick up other people. After a brief sleep I woke up to the smell of chicken rice and spaghetti with tomato sauce. Elisabeth refused to eat her food because she thought it was disgusting so…
Parents Meeting
by Anna
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
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
Jump Start is an organization that goes into preschools and assists in the class room. Collage students are the only ones who actually go into the class rooms so part of the point of this meeting was so that the people who run the company knew more about what actually went on in the class…
PS 98
by Anna
We went out to PS 98 on Monday December 14. The event we were going to attend (DEER) was canceled so we did other stuff around the school. We helped organize the library. There were two people working in the library neither of whom spoke english. One lady was able to say the word “five.” It…
The Go Project
by Anna
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
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
In your meeting with Halee Sage we discussed a Public School she worked at for two years in Baltimore. She was working in a very small class room trying to teach 30 or so 5th graders. She spent the first portion of her time in the class room simply teaching the kids how to navigate…
Beyond Measure
by Anna
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
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…
