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May 2, 2010
Uncommon Schools and Williamsburg Collegiate Headlined as Example of Charter School Success
Uncommon Schools and Williamsburg Collegiate were featured as examples of successful “top-flight” charter schools in a front page article in the Sunday New York Times.
Read the full article here. |
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April 20, 2010
Mad Money’s Jim Cramer Visits Kings Collegiate!
Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money with Jim Cramer” visited Kings Collegiate Charter School, a sister school of Williamsburg Collegiate. He taught Kings’ 7th graders a guest lesson on the stock market.
Watch him discuss his experience here. |
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April 6, 2010
Charter Schools Enlist Their Own as Recruitment Begins
Students and staff members from Uncommon Schools were featured on New York One spreading the word about spots for new 5th graders throughout their community.
View the video here. |
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March 7, 2010
Building a Better Teacher
Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School is a member of Uncommon Schools. Uncommon Schools’ Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices was just published in book form and featured in an article in The New York Times Magazine on efforts to enhance teacher effectiveness.
Read the full New York Times article here.
View the Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices here. |
Winter Enrichment Celebration
WCCS Auditorium
157 Wilson Street, 1st Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211 |
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December 10, 2009 5:30-7:30
Winter Enrichment Celebration
Join us for performances by our fashion design group, Brazilian percussion, drum line, hip hop dance, and more!
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June 3 , 2009
"Charter Schools Divide and Conquer "
--Ikimulisa Livingston and Yoav Gonen
"A record 90.7 percent of students in the city's charter schools aced this year's state math tests-a rate nearly 9 percentage points higher than the city's traditional public schools and more than 4 points higher than the statewide average."
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June 2 , 2009
"More, Please, More: Stellar Math Scores Prove City Needs all the Charter Schools it Can Get "
--Editorial
"Wow! That's all you can say about the achievement levels of New York's charter school students. Wow! "
Read the entire article here! |
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June 2 , 2009
"City Charter School Students Ace State Math Exams at 91% Clip "
--Rachel Monahan
"A whopping 90.7% of charter school students in the city passed the state math exams, charter officials announced Tuesday. That's up from 84.9% last year. "
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April 27, 2009
"Collegiate Attitude in W'Burg "
--Carl Campanile
"At Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn, kids are expected to learn and to graduate college. They're well on their way.."
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December 20, 2007
"Charter Schools Win Top Grades, Surpass Traditional Public Schools on Report Cards"
--Elizabeth Green, Staff Reporter of the Sun
"Two "A"-graded middle schools, the Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn and the KIPP Infinity Charter School in West Harlem, got the two highest grades in the city, when you look at the numeric scores that justify the letter grades."
Read the entire article here!
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December 20, 2007
"Charter Schools Look Good Under Ed Department's Grading System"
--By Carrie Melago and Erin Einhorn, Daily News Staff Writers
"Most of the remaining 14 earned A's or B's, including two - Williamsburg Collegiate in Brooklyn and KIPP Infinity in Harlem - that earned the highest total scores in the city."
Read the entire article here!
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November 23, 2005
"Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School: Education Revolution in Southside Williamsburg"
- Block Magazine
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October 2003
No Excuses: Closing the Racial Gap in Learning by Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom.
- Published by Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Boston Collegiate Charter School - formerly known as South Boston Harbor Academy - upon which Williamsburg Collegiate is based, is featured in the Thernstroms' book. In a November 2, 2003 Boston Globe Review of No Excuses, Kim Marshall writes:
"Over the last 25 years, there have been many attempts to improve urban schools: busing students for racial integration; pouring money into schools; emphasizing Afro- or Latino-centered curriculum; increasing the number of minority teachers; reducing class size; setting up after-school programs; regulating and taking over failing schools; and introducing standards and high-stakes tests. The Thernstroms feel that none of these have even begun to close the racial gap.
"What gives them hope is a small number of highly successful inner-city schools (including South Boston Harbor Academy, KIPP Academy in the Bronx, and North Star Academy in Newark)."
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