Category Archives: Education Inequality
Education Inequity DO Stage
As a group we worked with about 10 different organization all taking different parts in solving education inequality. Our fieldwork stretche [...]
Imagine
We wanted to help public schools get funded and we wanted to raise awareness about underfunding. We thought that one of the best ways we cou [...]
Writing valentines letters to scholarship donors at Mt. Carmel Holy Rosary Parochial school
At the Mount Carmel Holy Rosary School in Harlem, we helped kids write letters to the donors of the scholarship that they were on. It was no [...]
Lobbying In Albany With AQENY
The bus going to Albany Left at 7 from One MetroTech Center and it arrived in Albany at 11. We went into the building and were guided to a r [...]
AQENY Parent’s Meeting 12/21
We had the opportunity to sit in on a meeting with parents from all different boroughs that worked with AQENY. We came on time, which was ap [...]
P.S. 98 12/14
On Monday, December 14th, we were originally scheduled to volunteer at a program called DEER, Drop Everything and Read. It was an animal the [...]
Breakfast with Santa at St.Brigids via CSF 12/19
Anna, Sophie, Ryann, Reggi and I all volunteered at a Christmas event at St.Brigids with Children’s Scholarship Fund as a joint effort [...]
Lobbying in Albany with AQENY 1/12
At 5 in the morning, when the moon was still out, we began our trip to Albany. After driving to One Metrotech and walking around in the free [...]
Protesting at City Hall with AQENY 1/10
A couple of weeks ago we had the opportunity to stand on the steps of City Hall with AQENY as the conducting a protest/press event. As we ap [...]
Visit to PS 98
We went to PS 98 for an event called DEER. When we got there we figured out that the event was canceled. We then asked what to do, we were s [...]
Press Conference with AQENY
AQENY gave us the chance to rally at city hall. When we got there Maria (our contact) handed us signs. These signs said things from AQE, All [...]
Albany
At 6:30 am we boarded a bus that would take us to Albany. On the bus we were served pork gumbo, rice, and a roasted pig knee. My other grou [...]
Renee Shau
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 [...]
Protesting At City Hall With AQENY About Underfunding
With AQENY, we participated in a protest that was pushing to give schools the money they are owed. It turns out that schools in New York st [...]
Albany
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 bri [...]
Phone Call with Renee Shaw 1/11
Yesterday we talked to Renee Shaw, a tech specialist at Barret Elementary school in Arlington, Virginia. Only a year after her school was re [...]
Parents Meeting
School around the 5 boroughs are getting parts of their education taken away in different ways. Some parents send their kids to a school tha [...]
Breakfast With Santa
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 [...]
Volunteering with the Go Project 12/5
A couple of weeks ago we went to volunteer with the Go Project. It was on a saturday at our school, starting at 9:30. When we arrived at the [...]
Jump Start Breakfast
Jump Start is an organization that goes into preschools and assists in the class room. Collage students are the only ones who actually go in [...]
PS 98
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. W [...]
Phone Interview With Jacqueline M Cotugno
We interviewed Jacqueline M Cotugno, who works with jumpstart, over the phone in order to find out a little more about jumpstart. Although s [...]
Volunteering at The GO Project
Recently we volunteered at the Go Project. The Go Project is an organization that does group classes, at our school, on Sunday, teaching kid [...]
The Go Project
The Go Project is an organization that tutors children that are behind in school. They tutor over 600 children across four sites. The starte [...]
Meeting with The GO project
We met with the organization GO Project. They work with kids that are behind grade level and get them up to speed. At the meeting there were [...]
Waiting For Superman Movie
My social justice recently watched “Waiting For Superman”. I did not like it. Although it did bring out the flaws in the educati [...]
Meeting with Jump Start 11/19
Today we sat in on a meeting at the Jump Start offices. The meeting was with a few members of the Jump Start community and three college stu [...]
Breakfast at Jumpstart
Jumpstart is a preschool tutoring program that provides resources and attention to preschool children. They focus on vocabulary, literacy, r [...]
Meeting with Halee Sage
Halle Sage was a Teacher in Teach for America. She worked in a small public school in inner-city Baltimore for 2 years. During the meeting, [...]
Meeting With Maria from AQENY
The Alliance For Quality Education is an organization that works on making sure everyone gets equal school opportunities through legal actio [...]
Beyond Measure
Beyond Measure was a movie that explained and showed a New schooling technique. It criticized the current public school system that primaril [...]
Waiting for Superman / The Myth of Charter Schools
“Waiting for Superman” is a controversial movie about charter schools. The movie talks about how Charter schools work and how th [...]
Beyond Measure Screening 11/12
Beyond Measure was a screening held by Mya Dunlop, whose son created MyloWrites. Beyond Measure talks about the curriculum that most schools [...]
Interview with Halee Sage 11/15
Halee Sage was a teacher with the organization Teach for America for 3 years. Teach for America is an organization that sends teachers to un [...]
Meeting with Maria Bautista from AQENY 11/15
AQENY is the Alliance for Quality Education New York. 3 days ago we met with their campaign coordinator, Maria Bautista. The organization th [...]
Waiting for Superman 11/9
Our group watched the movie Waiting for Superman directed by Davis Guggenheim. Waiting for Superman focused mainly on charter schools, and t [...]
Maria Bautista, Alliance for Quality Education
Today we met with Maria from the Alliance for Quality Education. They work on getting the government to give Public Schools the funding they [...]
Halee Sage, Teach for America
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 [...]
Beyond Measure
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 luc [...]
Waiting For Superman
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 [...]
Funding Cut Our Future
Public schools in New York alone are owed over 5 billion dollars. Important programs, like art and music, are being cut. The schools that ar [...]
