More than a third of students from low鈥慽ncome households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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The text Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is critical to the high school鈥檚 updated International Baccalaureate program, as well as the grade level junior English classes. It will be taught according to IB and Common core state standards, and will incorporate historical documents as well.
Aside from the educational 鈥渟tandards鈥 it鈥檚 a rich, interwoven story about generational loss. Students will question what it means to be happy, how loss controls our lives beyond 鈥渕aking us sad鈥 and how a person recovers.
This text will also illuminate for students a period in American history that often is discussed in history class, but the students didn鈥檛 experience: 9/11. Many students don鈥檛 even know what it is, let alone its impact on America. Through this text we will talk about how 9/11 changed America.
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The text Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is critical to the high school鈥檚 updated International Baccalaureate program, as well as the grade level junior English classes. It will be taught according to IB and Common core state standards, and will incorporate historical documents as well.
Aside from the educational 鈥渟tandards鈥 it鈥檚 a rich, interwoven story about generational loss. Students will question what it means to be happy, how loss controls our lives beyond 鈥渕aking us sad鈥 and how a person recovers.
This text will also illuminate for students a period in American history that often is discussed in history class, but the students didn鈥檛 experience: 9/11. Many students don鈥檛 even know what it is, let alone its impact on America. Through this text we will talk about how 9/11 changed America.