Opening the Doors to the Future for Students

Written by NYPress on November 15, 2012. Posted in Blackboard Awards

Outstanding Principal By Erin Brodwin When a parent arrives in Principal Jackie Albers’ office to ask whether her student should take classes in music or math, her answer is both. Albers, who oversees an elementary charter school in central Harlem, said the most important aspect of her job is making sure students who leave her
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The Uncommon Way: Improving the Norm for Inner-City Students

Written by NYPress on November 15, 2012. Posted in Blackboard Awards

Outstanding High school By David Gibbons Uncommon is one organization that would probably be happy, someday soon, to convert its name to a misnomer. Uncommon Charter High School, which opened in 2009 and will graduate its first senior class next June, is located in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in a new building where students and staff
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No Small Fry

Written by admin on December 18, 2009. Posted in Arts & Film, Theater

When the going gets tough, this teacher goes to the Comic Strip Live Theater. Jack Freiberger’s new solo show, They Call Me Mister Fry, is a love letter to teachers, based on the true story of his first year as a 5th-grade teacher in South Central Los Angeles. Written by and starring Freiberger, this work
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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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