Posts Tagged ‘Frank McCourt’

How I Stalked Frank McCourt

Written by admin on May 20, 2010. Posted in Uncategorized

By Jeff Nichols In 1995, my goal was simple: to become the toast of the New York literary town. So I began to scribble down my autobiography. I thought I had an interesting story about being confined to special education, the obligatory drug and alcohol abuse and then going on to live a life full
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McCourt High School Recruiting Students

Written by admin on February 4, 2010. Posted in Education

With Frank McCourt High School slated to open in September, administrators are starting the recruiting and application phase to assemble the first class of freshmen. The high school, housed on the Brandeis High School campus at 145 W. 84th St. between Columbus and Amsterdam avenues, will be open to students in all five boroughs. Named
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Founding Principal

Written by admin on November 5, 2009. Posted in Education

Danielle Salzberg, a veteran teacher, administrator and builder of new schools, will be taking the helm at the newly announced Frank McCourt High School next fall. The application process for new schools occurs in February, after both the specialized high school round and the main round of citywide high school admissions are over. Students who
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Skeptical of New School

Written by admin on October 15, 2009. Posted in Opinion and Column

To the Editor: As a former prize-winning student of Frank McCourt’s, I greeted Joel Klein’s announcement of the Frank McCourt High School with much skepticism and disbelief. I strongly doubt that such a school can produce first-rate journalists. Instead, I think those interested in journalism should seek mastery first of some subject, whether it is fine art, history or
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Finally: McCourt HS

Written by admin on October 9, 2009. Posted in Education

Before literary legend and longtime New York City public school teacher Frank McCourt died this past summer, efforts were underway to create a school in his honor. Now that plan has become a reality. On Oct. 6, the Department of Education announced that the Frank McCourt High School will open in fall 2010 as part
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Frank McCourt, 1930-2009

Written by admin on July 22, 2009. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit

Readers of this newspaper have come to know Frank McCourt in a different way over the past several years. As someone who thought there were too many unsung heroes in the classroom, McCourt was kind enough to play host to Manhattan Media’s annual Blackboard Awards, affairs honoring New York City’s top schools and teachers. Audiences
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A Frank Memoir

Written by admin on July 22, 2009. Posted in Editorial, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

“When I look back on our teaching days I wonder how we managed to survive at all. It was of course, a miserable career: the happy career is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable teaching career is the miserable high school teaching career, and worse yet is the miserable New York public
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An Exciting New School

Written by admin on June 17, 2009. Posted in Editorial, Opinion and Column

Parents in Harlem, East Harlem and the Upper West Side, as well as throughout the city, should be excited by an idea that was proposed at Brandeis High School last week: a racially and ethnically diverse new high school on West 84th Street emphasizing writing and literature that may open in September
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PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING VISIT

Written by admin on December 18, 2008. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

Beacon High School students celebrated their stately new library with a grand reopening last month. The teens were of course impressed with the library’s new computers, movie-viewing rooms and access to online databases. But the big draw for the students was author Frank McCourt, who spoke at the school’s weeklong literary festival in honor of
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