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Tag: middle school

Featured / Sub-Featured / Teacher Project

A Teaching Fellow Finds Her Footing

April 8, 2014April 8, 2014 - by Madeleine Cummings

Luisa Cavagna once thought she wanted to be a doctor, but now her heart is in the classroom

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News / On The Beat

Author Visit from Holocaust Survivor Makes Memoir Come Alive

April 7, 2014March 25, 2020 - by Madeleine Cummings

Inge Auerbacher visits Ditmas Junior High School as part of multi-disciplinary unit on writers’ childhood war diaries and memoirs.

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High School Choice: Like Choosing College

May 8, 2013May 9, 2013 - by Luke Hammill

Eighth graders need a lot of help navigating the maze of city high school applications. Schools offer wildly different levels of adult guidance. A new study suggests that equity may suffer as a result.

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Multimedia / Projects / Sub-Featured

Tweeting, Instagramming and YouTubing in Class

May 7, 2013May 7, 2013 - by Amanda Cedrone

With smart phones, MacBook Pros and iPad’s abound, take a look at how a group of tech-savvy students at a private Upper West Side school are tweeting, posting and instagramming their way through class.

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Social Media: Tweeting and Learning in the Classroom

April 23, 2013May 7, 2013 - by Amanda Cedrone

Educators see social media as an important tool to aid learning in the classroom, but there is no consensus on how best to teach it.

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Astoria parents furious over plans to add middle school to PS 122

March 2, 2013 - by Rula Al-Nasrawi

The New York Daily News reports that parents in Northwestern Queens are considering a lawsuit against the city over its plan to shrink the number of students eligible for the …

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Woes of a Fifth Grader

March 23, 2012April 21, 2012 - by Rebecca Moss

For Brooklyn fifth grader Nataly Salvador, middle school is around the corner and life is about to change.

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