David Mizhquiri
Age: 13 Neighborhood: Sunset Park, Brooklyn Current School: John Jay Pershing First Choice: Midwood High School, Edward R. Murrow High School, and again to Leadership and Public Service High School Admitted: …
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Book Review: A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind
In A Hope in the Unseen, Ron Suskind follows Cedric Jennings, a young Black student from an impoverished neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Jennings gets accepted into an Ivy League school, Brown University, …
Read MoreStudy in your PJs? What a high school ‘work from home day’ looks like
A high school in Park Ridge, NJ has adopted a program called Schoology. For one school day, students are given Mac laptops and instead of going to campus, take their …
Read MoreGot an A in algebra? That’s worth $120
A three-year-old start-up in San Francisco, called raise.me, is helping first generation college students earn scholarship money based on how well they perform in high school. Read more about Ashley …
Read MoreBridging the digital divide that leaves school children behind
Five million families across the United States do not have access to Internet in their homes, forcing young students to rely on free wifi wherever they can get it in …
Read MoreTeaching Bronx students the language of computers
Six high school students from the Bronx invented a website and an app called “Protect and Swerve,” which tracks acts of police violence in the city. Read more here.
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