Education: Dropping Out

Volunteering at the LIFT Holiday Fiesta + Gift Drive Donations

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We were invited to LIFT’s holiday fiesta in november. We offered to host a gift drive to help get gifts for all the kids that would be going to the fiesta. We ended up getting over 80 gifts and donating them to LIFT for the party. We went to the party which was at their office and we helped set up and we each had different stations for arts and crafts. (Ana was on popcicle stick snowflakes, Leah was on paper ornaments and I was helping give gifts out.) The party was really nice there was food and a picture station and we took turns helping the kids at different stations.

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Interview with Jon Roure

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We got an interview with Jon Roure, a specialist that works for College Bound Initiative. College Bound Initiative is a program that helps high school students get into colleges by placing guidance counselors in schools, organizing application boot camps and help teacher’s make their students college aware. We took a short tour of his offices and after we interviewed him in his office.

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Brittany Lynch Skype Conference

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we were on a Skype conference with Brittany Lynch about the organization that she works for. Lift helps inspire families with young children to get out of poverty in an effort to end generational poverty.

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Interview with Michelle Fine

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Today we met with Michelle Fine, author and expert. We went to her office at CUNY and interviewed her about pushouts, high school education and poverty.  She told us about her time working in a NYC public school and how that influenced her career and what she was interested in.

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Name: Ana Vieira Social Justice Group: 2018-2019, Education: Dropping Out Date of Fieldwork: November 29, 2018 Name of Organization: Lift organization Person (people) with whom I met and their job titles: Type of Fieldwork: What I did: What I learned: What I learned about Social Justice “work” and/or Civil and Human rights “work” from this…

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Skype Interview with Brittney Lynch

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We recently met with Brittney Lynch to get more information about LIFT. We discussed details about what her charity does and what makes it different from other charities. We are going to hold a toy drive to help with LIFT’s holiday fiesta on Dec 18. We have announced it in homeroom and I sent and email to remind our classmates. We are also going there to volunteer and maybe have a change to interview some people to get a better grasp on how education affects these people. I think it will be a great opportunity so that we can see these people as people, not as statistics.

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Jon Roure Interview

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we did an interview with Jon Roure about his work to help people go to college. He is an expert on poverty in education. we went to his office in Chelsea, at the College Bound Initiative offices. we met with college advisors that he works with.

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Interview with Michelle Fine at CUNY

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We went to the CUNY Graduate Center to interview Michelle Fine. She is a phycology professor who has written a book about the crisis that is dropping out of high school. We talked about how dropping out continues the treacherous cycle of poverty and it sets up a harder future for generations ahead of them. She gave us many sources to help and lots of information.

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Michelle Fine Interview

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we went to the CUNY building, and did an interview with Michelle Fine, where we talked about education in poverty, and how dropping out continues the cycle of poverty.

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Poverty In Education: Dropping Out

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Our group is devoted to helping teens in NYC break the treacherous cycle of poverty. It has been proven that the number one reason that teens leave school in some areas is that they need to make money for their family to survive. Leaving high school leads children into having the same kind of life…

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