Academics
Eleanor Roosevelt High School offers a comprehensive college preparatory program with Advanced Placement (AP) offerings, electives, and opportunities for college credit. Advanced Placement (AP) courses are college level courses where the student is admitted based on eligibility. The class schedule consists of seven 46-minute periods for the four core subjects, two elective/foreign language courses, and lunch. An advisory class occurs after the student's lunch period (depending on what grade the student is in they may or may not have advisory everyday.) All students are expected to successfully complete four years of core subjects, foreign language, electives, advisory, health and physical education from the extensive course offerings.
The advisory program is a class of approximately twenty students bond with their advisor for the next four years. During advisory, the advisor and advisees discuss topics that vary from social occurrences to current events. Every quarter students have to complete four books and five hours of community service.
Read more about this topic: Eleanor Roosevelt High School (New York City)
Famous quotes containing the word academics:
“Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain “above the fray” only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.”
—Stephanie Coontz (b. 1944)
“Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves. This is critical. How will our kids learn tolerance for others if our hearts are filled with hate? Learn compassion if we are indifferent? Perceive academics as important if soccer practice is a higher priority than homework?”
—Fred G. Gosman (20th century)