More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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Students come to our transfer school from all over NYC. They are usually over-age and under credited. They have a wide variety of academic skills and consistently struggle with literacy and writing. Reading non-fiction text and then using it effectively in writing are skills our students have not developed. Our Looking for an Argument class is designed to teach students how to read text to find evidence to support a position they are taking on a certain issue. We introduce a social justice current event, then students debate the issue based on their basic understanding. The rest of the week they research their position to find appropriate evidence to support their argument and then use that evidence to write a persuasive essay. Each week the goal is to have our students develop the skills for writing well-developed paragraphs using details from non-fiction text.
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Students come to our transfer school from all over NYC. They are usually over-age and under credited. They have a wide variety of academic skills and consistently struggle with literacy and writing. Reading non-fiction text and then using it effectively in writing are skills our students have not developed. Our Looking for an Argument class is designed to teach students how to read text to find evidence to support a position they are taking on a certain issue. We introduce a social justice current event, then students debate the issue based on their basic understanding. The rest of the week they research their position to find appropriate evidence to support their argument and then use that evidence to write a persuasive essay. Each week the goal is to have our students develop the skills for writing well-developed paragraphs using details from non-fiction text.