Education
See also: Education in HarlemThe education system in East Harlem is defined by low test scores and high drop-out and truancy rates. Students must pass through metal detectors and swipe ID cards to enter the buildings. Nevertheless, since 1982 the community has been home to the Manhattan Center for Science and Mathematics. It replaced Benjamin Franklin High School, which had the smallest graduating class in the city at the time of its closing.
Among the public charter schools in East Harlem are Success Academy Harlem 2 (of Success Academy Charter Schools), the Harlem Village Academy, and the DREAM Charter School.
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)
“I think the most important education that we have is the education which now I am glad to say is being accepted as the proper one, and one which ought to be widely diffused, that industrial, vocational education which puts young men and women in a position from which they can by their own efforts work themselves to independence.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“I prefer to finish my education at a different school.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)