Advice from Vanguard High School
We visited Vanguard High school in New York City, which is home to 413 students. Vanguard opened in 1993 as part of the coalition of essential schools, which focuses on creating smaller more intimate learning environments. Vanguard is currently housed in the Julia Richmond Education Complex and shares the building with five other high schools. Unlike many of the public schools in New York City, Vanguard does performance-based assessments instead of standardized tests to measure what students have learned.
We interviewed Vanguard High School students Degora Anderson, Julissa Lopez, TJ Singletary, Katilin Nazario, Naquan Dodd and Declan Ryan and asked what education Advice they had for president Obama.
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Advice on NCLB
Since it’s inception No Child Left Behind (NCLB) has been a hot button issue for educators and policy makers. Now that President Obama is in office should we get rid of NCLB or keep the system in place?
We look back before the election at some of the education advice that Randall Collins the president of the American Association of School Administrators, Jack Dale, the Superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Sandy Kress, former education advisor to George W. Bush, and Eric Scroggins the Executive Director of Teach for America in the San Francisco Bay Area offered to the next President regarding NCLB.
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“Don’t leave out kids who have disabilities”
Declan Ryan is a senior at Vanguard High School in New York City.
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“The schools that do have problems should be turned into buildings with smaller schools.”
Ashwini Hicks is a senior at Vanguard High School in New York City.
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“You want us to come to school? Have something for us when we get here”
Eric Caldwell is an 11th grader from New York City.
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“Funding for the teachers”
Ricky La is currently attending San Francisco State University in California and planning to make a career out of audio production.
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“Increase spending on education”
Angelisa Candler is a senior at Gateway High School in San Francisco. She is also a Teaching Assistant at the Bay Area Video Coalition and an independent media maker.[Audio clip: view full post to listen]
“Not alot of schools accept the fact that students are gay”
Degora Anderson and Julissa Lopez are students at Vanguard High School in New York City.
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“Treat teaching as national service”
Don Shalvey is an American educator. He is president and co-founder of Aspire Public Schools, a non-profit charter school management organization.
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“Re-think the achievement gap”
Robert Fried is associate professor of education at Northeastern University in Boston, and works with teachers and parents in schools around the country. He also the author of The Passionate Teacher: A Practical Guide.
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