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:
“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Since [Rousseau’s] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)