Category: education
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Testing Our Waters
Empowering citizen scientists to track and prevent marine pollution.
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Designing for Transitions in Cancer
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Climate Change and Urban Health
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Temperament of Space – Yonkers
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Tar Sands Songbook
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Africa is a Country
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Ba re e ne re Literary Arts
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Healthy Affordable Materials Project
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PROJETO 111
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Harlem Collaboration Project
The purpose of the HCP is to support young people in Harlem to meet their higher potential. We will do this by testing our assumptions, being grounded in relationships and acting responsibly.
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AIDS Quilt Touch
Our aim is to create an appropriate digital memorial that helps preserve significant cultural memories about AIDS, art, and activism, and personal memories about those who died of HIV/AIDS who are commemorated on the Quilt.
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The Ship’s First Shape Was a Raft
This two-year collaborative service design grew from a shared interest in asking “What does it mean to make a thing for ourselves?” across our three learning communities: formerly incarcerated young people at The Fortune Society, public high school students at Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (WHEELS), undergraduate students at The New School.
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HealthClass2.0
HealthClass 2.0, a civic engagement project housed at The New School, is an experiential learning program empowering New York City youth to engage in new conversations about health, food and exercise.
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Institute for Transformative Mentoring
The Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM) is a program at The New School – Center for New York City Affairs. The Institute for Transformative Mentoring (ITM) is a dynamic training program focused on the development of Credible Messengers (formerly incarcerated men and women) working in the social services fields throughout New York City.
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WriteOn NYC
Born of a desire to enrich these bright young men’s educational experience, introduce them to literary role models, and help them develop and trust their own voices, WriteOn! NYC was piloted by Fiction Chair, Professor Helen Schulman and two selected MFA candidates in January 2016. The MFA students worked with Helen and George Jackson and…
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The Bell: A Student Podcast
The New York City public school system comprises 1,856 schools and 1,133,963 students – an enrollment greater than that of 38 states. The system is home to some of the finest public schools in the country, and some of the worst, with a high degree of racial and socioeconomic segregation contributing to unequal opportunities and…
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Post from the Past
There is a lack of engagement and meaningful learning in pre-college education when it comes to History. This problem is compounded by a lack of funding, support, and innovation in history and social studies classrooms across the nation.