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Urban high school's rare feat: No dropoutsCamden, N.J., school built around student's passions, community project

The schools are small and very different from traditional schools. MetEast has just over 100 students — less than one-tenth the enrollment at each of the city's comprehensive high schools. The educators are called "advisers," not teachers, and they advise the same group of students all four years.

Classes are built around the idea that students will learn by following their passions. Students do internships. Graduation requirements include a senior project with the aim of doing some good for the community.And four times a year, every student makes a presentation to a panel that includes students and adults from outside the school.

Discovery School at NECC 09 Here are the presentations from our Discovery School event at NECC 2009.  This page will be updated as the rest of the presentations are submitted.

mimio and Discovery Education - A Powerful Combination INK mimio has teamed up with Discovery Education to provide an overview of how to combine the two valuable educational resources. Learn how to maximize the benefits of your mimio Interactive System and Discovery Education.

Three questions to answer What was the main idea or point being made in the video? What audience was the video trying to reach? Think about the methods used to create the video. Were they effective? Why or why not? Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 Instruction Sheet

TechTechBoom.com is a new BETA (code word for not fully finished) website and is a subsidiary of Mario Armstrong Media, LLC. (http://www.MarioArmstrong.com) What’s the mission? Simple, it’s a place to help teens to connect, be inspired, supported and motivated to pursue STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math) academics and careers! We need more young minds wanting to fill our tech pipeline of the future.

The vision for this site was Mario Armstrong’s and he wanted it to be a cool and very informative tech hangout for teens but instead of hiring adults to design it (boring and done already) he wanted to flip the model. So his company hired 11 high school students from different grades, backgrounds and tech interests and they created what you see today, that being the first STEM website and community built by teens for teens! The site offers a cool hangout place, solid STEM information and resources all centered around STEM.

We want to be the hub of all science, technology, engineering and math content, news, events, scholarships, programs, contests, internships, mentoring and more. If it’s STEM and it involves teens – it will be on this site – no more islands of STEM info.

Nets for administrators 2009

"This is disgusting behavior and unfortunately, it goes beyond the days of graffiti on bathroom walls," Low said. "Now it has a townwide audience, a nationwide and even an international audience. I don't think kids are aware of that."

Teryly Magee, a teacher from the Dogwood Elementary School in Knoxville, Tenn., describes the benefits of using Skype and iChat: "Web 2.0 videoconferencing brings fun and learning to the children in my urban classroom. Instead of vicariously learning from textbooks or Web research, my students get firsthand information from the people who actually live in the places they are studying. Using Skype and iChat, my children have experienced locations such as New York, California, Illinois, Oregon, Michigan and Wisconsin," she says.