The Stevens Cooperative School (also referred to as SCS), founded in 1949, is the only nonsectarian private elementary school in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. The school started as an informal playgroup for children of the faculty at Stevens Institute of Technology. The School, focused on delivering a Progressive education, has since grown into a preschool, elementary school, and middle school and the Stevens Cooperative School has campuses in Hoboken and Jersey City. Stevens is the oldest parent cooperative school in New Jersey As of 2011, from 2s through the 8th grade, nearly 400 students are in the school. The Interim Head of School is Dr. David Penberg. Stevens Cooperative School is a member of the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools.
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“the windy sky
Cries out a literate despair.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Then we grow up to be Daddy. Domesticated men with undomesticated, frontier dreams. Suddenly life—or is it the children?—is not as cooperative as it ought to be. It’s tough to be in command of anything when a baby is crying or a ten-year-old is in despair. It’s tough to feel a sense of control when you’ve got to stop six times during the half-hour ride to Grandma’s.”
—Hugh O’Neill (20th century)
“For those parents from lower-class and minority communities ... [who] have had minimal experience in negotiating dominant, external institutions or have had negative and hostile contact with social service agencies, their initial approaches to the school are often overwhelming and difficult. Not only does the school feel like an alien environment with incomprehensible norms and structures, but the families often do not feel entitled to make demands or force disagreements.”
—Sara Lawrence Lightfoot (20th century)