Education
Long Island City is served by the New York City Department of Education.
Long Island City is zoned to:
- P.S. 17 Henry David Thoreau School
- P.S. 70
- P.S. 76 William Hallet School
- P.S. 78
- P.S. 85 Judge Charles Vallone
- P.S. 111 Jacob Blackwell School
- P.S. 150
- P.S. 166 Henry Gradstein School
- P.S. 171 Peter G. Van Alst School
- P.S. 199 Maurice A. Fitzgerald School
- I.S. 10 H. Greeley School
- I.S. 141 The Steinway School
- I.S. 204 Oliver W. Holmes
- I.S. 126 Albert Shanker School For Visual And Performing Arts
A 7-12 school called Baccalaureate School for Global Education is in LIC.
Long Island City is also the location of the Queens Paideia School, an independent progressive school that offers personalized learning and group activities for its mixed-age student body, K-8.
Long Island City is home to numerous high schools, a number of which offer specializations, as indicated below. These specialized schools are not to be confused with SHSAT-based high schools. Rather, these schools offer programs that are included at SHSAT schools.
- Academy of American Studies (a history high school)
- Academy Careers of Television and Film (ACTvF)
- Academy of Finance and Enterprise
- Aviation Career and Technical High School
- Bard High School Early College II
- Frank Sinatra School of the Arts
- High School of Applied Communication
- Information Technology High School
- International High School At Laguardia
- Long Island City High School
- Middle College High School at LaGuardia Community College
- Newcomers High School - Academy for New Americans
- Queens Vocational and Technical High School
- Robert F. Wagner Jr. Institute For Arts & Technology
- William Cullen Bryant High School
Numerous institutions of higher education have (or have had) a presence in Long Island City.
- Briarcliffe College, has a campus on Thomson Avenue
- City University of New York School of Law at 2 Court Square
- Columbia University's Depression Project is located at 3718 34th Street
- DeVry University - New York Metro (also known as DeVry College of New York), maintained headquarters at 3020 Thomson Avenue until March 2011, at which time New York Metro's main campus relocated to 180 Madison Avenue in Manhattan and DCNY relocated its Queens presence to 99-21 Queens Boulevard in Rego Park
- LaGuardia Community College, at 3110 Thomson Avenue
- Middle College National Consortium is located at 2728 Thomson Avenue, #331
- Touro College, at 2511 49th Ave
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Famous quotes containing the word education:
“Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influence which flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are words in that letter to his wife, respecting the education of his daughters, which deserve to be framed and hung over every mantelpiece in the land. Compare this earnest wisdom with that of Poor Richard.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In the years of the Roman Republic, before the Christian era, Roman education was meant to produce those character traits that would make the ideal family man. Children were taught primarily to be good to their families. To revere gods, one’s parents, and the laws of the state were the primary lessons for Roman boys. Cicero described the goal of their child rearing as “self- control, combined with dutiful affection to parents, and kindliness to kindred.””
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)