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Newton North High is ranked 44th within Massachusetts. Students have the opportunity to take Advanced Placement® coursework and exams. The AP® participation rate at Newton North High is 60%. Newton North High School is a top rated, public school located in Newtonville, MA. It has 2,124 students in grades 9-12 with a student-teacher ratio of 12 to 1. According to state test scores, 92% of students are at least proficient in math and 96% in reading. The program is housed in two locations: the Day Middle School (grades 6-8) and Newton North High School (grades 9-12). Enrollment is open to eligible students from throughout the state of Massachusetts. Students are referred by local school districts, other programs for the Deaf, state agencies, hospitals, and parents/family members. NNHS Yearbooks at Newton Free Library. Newton North High School. Publications; Dover Legacy Scholars; EDCO; Global Education Programs; METCO.
Newton North High School student: 'When I came here I was terrified [nervous laughter from class]. When you live in an all-white suburb and turn on the TV you get all this violence about city schools. I had this big violent picture of the Boston schools. A lot of kids here I think are really nice. I shouldn't be surprised at that.'
Dorchester High School student:
'They still seem like a bunch of robots; they don't have feelings; they're too serious. But maybe not as much as I thought.'
As they discuss these stereotypes on the last day of their experimental exchange program, the students laugh at their original perceptions of one another -- of Newton as 'goofy, stuck-up rich people;' of Dorchester as 'dangerous, violent, bombed out.'
At the same time they acknowledge that the two communities seem further than 15 miles apart. 'Psychologically, they're 100 miles apart,' one student says. 'It's like going to another country.'
A bridge between the two 'countries' of Dorchester and Newton began to form in the spring of 1980 when Newton North High School students, studying 19 th-century education and black history, expressed an interest in visiting a Boston school. Their teachers, henry Bolter and Paula Evans, contacted the Educational Collaborative for Greater Boston (Edco), a state-funded agency providing 13 participating communities with 30 'outside the classroom' educational programs.
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Edco proposed the exchange to Dorchester High School and recruited the enthusiasm of two social studies teachers there, Frank Lattaralo and John Palmieri. Actual planning with Edco coordinators began last October, and a six-week, six-session exchange of 25 students from each school evolved for the spring.
'After the first day of the exchange, it was clear that the kids jelled nicely,' Paula Evans reflects. 'But our time frame is definitely too short. The exposure the kids are getting is great, but to assume that we've gone a lot further is too hopeful.' Describing Newton North's plans to expand the exchange next year to a full-year accredited course, Paula Evans explains:
'You take a risk when you study something in enough depth to raise difficult questions, questions that can't be answered in six weeks.'
Dorchester High School's building, circa 1923, crumbling, and decorated with graffiti, raised the first difficult questions. Some Newton students felt guilty about Newton North's swimming pool, carpeted library, and elective curriculum.
Dorchester students expressed bitterness about losing their best students and programs to magnet schools. Dorchester students criticized Newton North's open-campus program as offering too much freedom, at the same time objecting to their school's practice of 'locking us up all day.'
But after a morning of classes at both schools, students complained that whether they were at Dorchester or Newton, classes could be boring. 'A class is a class is a class, whether there's a rug on the floor or not.'
Making an exchange program work involves close cooperation between teachers of both schools, a great deal of planning, and flexibility once the exchange is under way. 'Our planning sessions were a real collaborative efforts,' says Larry Raskin, Edco's education coordinator.
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Out of the planning sessions came a successful 'buddy system' of pairing students from opposite schools in small groups of two or three students. The 'buddy system' idea was rejected at first by the Dorchester High school administration. 'Getting administrative support is essential for a program like this,' Mr. Lattaralo says.
Once the right elements were in place, the Newton North- Dorchester exchange seemed to run on the enthusiasm and interest of the students. 'I wasn't to thank you guys for having us here,' announced a girl at the end of a day early in the six- week session. 'It seems to me that this is what education is really about.'
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May 14 ¤ Two Boston area high school students, Cole Kerr (Newton North) and Stephanie Liu (Phillips Andover Academy), and two students from High Tech High in San Diego, Beth Lacarra and Jake Neighbors, have been chosen for the MIT Ocean Engineering Summer Internships. The Ocean Engineering Internship Program is jointly sponsored by the MIT Sea Grant College Program and the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering. The paid internship will run from July 12 through August 20, 2010.ABOUT THE OCEAN ENGINEERING INTERNSHIPThe Ocean Engineering Internships offers four high school students an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a variety of marine science and technology fields. Interns work with faculty and research staff, including policy experts, research engineers, and marine biologists, at the MIT Sea Grant College Program and the MIT Center for Ocean Engineering. Each intern also works semi-independently on a project designed by the intern and an assigned advisor from one of the following disciplines: marine biology, oceanography, physical and ocean science and engineering. The project will culminate in a written and oral report to be presented at the end of the program. The Ocean Engineering Internship program is open to rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. Two students are chosen from a pool of MIT¡s Blue Lobster Bowl participants each year and two from High Tech High in San Diego.THE BLUE LOBSTER BOWL INTERNSFor over 13 years the Blue Lobster Bowl has been testing Massachusetts high school students in marine sciences including biology, chemistry, physics, geology, maritime history, and ocean engineering. Each year approximately 2,000 students from 300 schools across the nation compete in their regional tournament. Winners of regional competitions are invited to compete in the National Ocean Sciences Bowl. The Blue Lobster Bowl is co-sponsored by The MIT Sea Grant College Program, The MIT Center for Ocean Engineering, and The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.For the second year, MIT offered the two Boston-area Ocean Engineering Internship slots exclusively to Blue Lobster Bowl participants. Cole Kerr, a rising junior from Newton North High School and Stephanie Liu, a rising senior from Philips Andover Academy, were been selected from a pool of applicants. They will be working on sensors for the Sea Perch, a small underwater robot used by MIT Sea Grant in its educational programs. The interns will be responsible for field data collection and input into online database and conducting quality control on the sensor itself. Brandy M. M. Wilbur, Educational Consultant for the MIT Sea Grant College Program comments,”The Blue Lobster Bowl students are passionate about the ocean – the students that apply for the internship are seeking to learn more about the marine realm. MIT Sea Grant developed this internship opportunity for these top marine science students of Massachusetts to provide them with a hands-on opportunity to learn more about the science and engineering that happens when studying the ocean. This summer experience gives them an insight into these areas of study for college and careers.”THE HIGH TECH HIGH MEDIA ARTS ENGINEERING INTERNSHigh Tech High Media Arts (HTHMA) is a school serving approximately 390 students in grades 9-12 at High Tech High (HTH) Village in San Diego. Founded in the fall of 2005, the school implements all HTH design principles and features a focus on a strong liberal arts and sciences foundation enhanced through the media arts. Early in 2009 MIT Sea Grant was introduced to HTHMA by Dan Sura, a consultant to MIT Sea Grant who commutes between San Diego and Cambridge. MIT Sea Grant director, Chrys Chryssostomidis, was delighted to supply the dynamic science and engineering focused HTH with two kits to build Sea Perch remotely operated vehicle (ROV) which is the cornerstone of MIT Sea Grant¡s K-12 outreach program.Ultimately, HTHMA engineering instructor, Karl Wendt, decided to pursue a custom ROV project with his group of talented and technically advanced students. Wendt¡s students developed an array of ROV and Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) platforms comparable in size to the Sea Perch but with digital control systems and sensors that allow them to have interesting capabilities. Throughout the MAE program, Dan Sura continued to provide overall guidance, giving presentations to the students and facilitating communication among MIT Sea Grant, MAE, and the Office for Naval Research which funds the Sea Perch program and sponsored the HTH group to continue ROV developments in through the spring of 2010. Sura comments,”I’ve been quite impressed by the fact that Karl has given these kids exposure to some hands on engineering they would normally not see until at least their sophomore year at MIT or any engineering college. They are going to arrive at MIT as high school students with that experience, and apply the skills they learned towards a real-world problem in the Ocean Engineering field.”Through a competitive process that included a written application and interviews, Beth Lacarra and Jake Neighbors were chosen from MAE for the internship. Jake Neighbors is a senior at High Tech High Media Arts graduating this June, 2010. He considers himself an engineer because he likes researching the latest technology and thoroughly understanding how it works. Beth Lacarra, a life-long San Diego resident, has always been interested in science and what makes things work including; gears, electrons and quarks. Chryssostomidis plans to have the MAE summer interns build upon two main concepts, a power docking station to recharge an AUV, sensor integration onto their AUV platform for environmental sensing.ABOUT MIT SEA GRANTThe mission of the MIT Sea Grant College Program is to employ innovative research, education and outreach strategies to responsibly use and sustain the vital marine resources of Massachusetts. The issues we address manifest locally but many are global in nature. Compelling challenges demand our attention as a solo entity and in partnership with other groups living and working on the coasts and at sea. MIT Sea Grant brings the substantial intellectual abilities of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and our sister universities to bear on ocean-related challenges requiring an extraordinary technical contribution. In meeting these challenges, we expand human understanding of the ocean and establish the infrastructure to sustain the initiatives and talent pool needed to address complex issues of critical and fragile marine resources.For immediate release: May 14, 2010Contact:Nancy Adamsemail: nadamsx@mit.eduCall: 617 253-9305###MIT Sea Grant College ProgramMail to: 77 Massachusetts Avenue, E38-300, Cambridge, MA 02139To visit: 292 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02140/