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Terry [Urban Academy teacher] makes us understand with our own minds rather than just telling us the answer. It feels like he's not teaching. We're like "Break it down for me!" And he says, "Break it down yourself." But after we've got our minds and our juices flowing, he'll tell you, and then he'll put another couple of problems on the board. - Alexis
Avram [Urban Academy teacher] always tries to challenge your ideas. Sometimes he'll say something completely opposite to what he believes, just to get you to argue. He loves to argue-to exchange ideas, turn your viewpoints on their heads. It's nice to have conversations about politics, religion, anything with an adult who doesn't think you're a dumb teenager. - Vance |
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"New York City's peculiar blend of hard-edged intensity and neighborhood intimacy shows up daily in the idiosyncratic classrooms of Urban Academy, which occupies a second-floor corner of a transformed giant city high school between First and Second Avenues at 67th Street.
Here, in courses the faculty designs to match its expertise and interests, 120 students in grades 9 through 12 get both the tough intellectual push and the close individual scrutiny on which Urban Academy has made its name since 1985."
To understand how they do this click here to the what kids can do site
http://www.whatkidscando.org/portfoliosmallschools/Urban/urbanintro.html
Contact:
queries@urbanacademy.org
www.urbanacademy.org
0011 212 570 5284 |
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