I have been thinking about the fate of our students over the weekend. The lessons that I and the teachers and instructors have been trying to teach over the last month and a half seem to be regarded with disinterest. Students still do not appear to know what they are here to do, or to [...]
Entries from October 2006
An Unwelcome Discovery – New York Times
October 23rd, 2006 · 4 Comments
Tags: Learning and Teaching
October 06 College Tour-Yale University
October 9th, 2006 · 2 Comments
Eleven NYMC STEP students along with twenty one from Purchase STEP traveled to New Haven CT last Saturday to be part of the Yale Multicultural Open House. The Yaleys put on an impressive display highlighting the diversity of experience that can be ’Life at Yale’. Of course, the hardest part is getting in. But assuming [...]
Tags: 06-07 Calendar Notes
Bio and Chem Research Project details now online
October 3rd, 2006 · 4 Comments
The Biology Nutrition Project requirements and the Chemistry Art Conservation instructions are now posted on the blog’s wikispace. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and go into the green wikispace on the right called theBackStep. Click on the Biology-Nutrition link to enter Ms Romero’s Biology project page, or the Chemistry link to get to Ms Cherian’s page.
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