Terms that you need to know

  • Funding- to provide recources, usually in the form of money. Fundraising is done to make the money.
  • Affluence- Something that is rich or abundant, generally directed towards areas or societies.
  • Taxes- A small amount of money paid by citizens to the government which pays for things like matienence, housing, and schools.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Project Links

So I'm almost absolutely sure that my grad project will be on underprivileged schools. Here are a few links I could invest in for more information.

http://www.hcz.org/about-us/about-geoffrey-canada/144
http://www.hcz.org/about-us/history
These are about a project called Harlem Zone, as seen on the American Express Member's Project Commercials.


http://www.pps.k12.pa.us/1431107231034057/site/default.asp
http://www.pps.k12.pa.us/pps/site/Directory_List.asp?byType=38
These are links in order to contact Pittsburgh Public Schools and to see which departments I could try to contact. (I'm trying to get in contact with the finance department and Mark Roosevelt)

FURTHER LINKS AS OF 2011

http://www.commoncore.org/wwd.php

http://febp.newamerica.net/

http://www.hcz.org/

http://www.joannejacobs.com/

http://books.google.com/books?id=UEJ3QAukj9oC&dq=Savage Inequities&pg=PP1&ots=ExznHVJiL8&source=bn&sig=3rHXoUEAghuUOxy62ggIAyrKO_8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result/#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act

http://www.uscharterschools.org/pub/uscs_docs/index.htm

http://www2.ed.gov/programs/fpg/index.html

http://www.altmire.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=427&Itemid=48






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savage_inequalities
A book about the topic that we started reading in 9th grade.


http://www.inklingsnews.com/archives/5430
An article so I could get an idea of what people go through teaching there and what the surrounding is like.

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