Tag Archives: 9th grade
Renewable Energy
Happy Leap Day everyone! I’ve written before about renewable energy. One of the projects my ninth graders just completed is a renewable energy power plant and distribution system. The challenge is to use solar power, wind power, and hydrogen fuel … Continue reading
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Friendship Time in School?
Sue Fothergill recently posted a new ‘Audacious Idea’ on how to improve the massive attendance problem in Baltimore’s schools: time and structured ways to develop new friendships. She begins by describing the magnitude of the problem. “For the past three … Continue reading
Graduation 2010
Today was the graduation ceremony for the Class of 2010. In answer to the implicit question posed in the last sentence of this earlier post, 17 out of the 75 students I taught during their 9th grade year have graduated … Continue reading
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The Dropout Problem
My high school, where I teach math and engineering, had the dubious honor of being featured in a recent article by Richard Whitmire for the Chronicle of Higher Education: As an example, let’s take Baltimore’s Patterson High School, located in … Continue reading
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