SAT Bronx: Do You Know What Bronx Kids Know? - Softcover
Get out your Number 2 pencils! What do inner-city teenagers know that the rest of us may not? What can they do that others might find daunting? What can we all learn, from thinking through the issues that confront urban youth at school and in their neighborhoods? SAT Bronx aims to find out, by framing the words and experiences of fourteen Bronx high school students in the form of standardized test passages. To answer its multiple-choice questions (co-constructed with two of the students teachers and with Kathleen Cushman of What Kids Can Do), one must analyze complex matters of culture, language, behavior, even governmental policy. On this test, the only way to get the right answers is to pay close attention to the words, experiences, and perspectives of its young co-authors. Taking SAT Bronx opens important conversations about multiculturalism and equity, knowledge and skills, and the assumptions that underlie our thinking about urban youth. Discussion questions for both youth and adults follow each section. SAT Bronx developed as a collaborative project of What Kids Can Do, Inc. with generous support from Adobe Youth Voices, a global network of educators and youth who share their ideas, concerns, and aspirations using Adobe's media tools.
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About the Author:
Bronx Leadership Academy 2 is part of the small schools network in New York City, which now includes hundreds of schools across the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan. The students who worked on this book were juniors and seniors at BLA2 and met weekly, after school, the create its contents. Their teachers, Shannon O'Grady and Kristin Ferrales, supported the students at every turn. Education writer Kathleen Cushman worked with the team to produce the final book.
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''This test combines two codes and cultural lingos that of urban youth and that of the test-making establishment. It helps adults understand the code-switching necessary to take standardized tests. They may not easily comprehend certain passages by students in SAT Bronx, yet they must answer questions about them.'' --Early praise from SAT Bronx test-taker
''It reminded me that similar values could lead to different actions and similar actions could come from different values.'' --Early praise from SAT Bronx test-taker
''SAT Bronx provides adults with a different entry point for conversations about equity. It reminds us that urban youth can conduct sharp analysis of complex factors and situations that are not cut-and-dried.'' --Early praise from SAT Bronx test-taker
''It reminded me that similar values could lead to different actions and similar actions could come from different values.'' --Early praise from SAT Bronx test-taker
''SAT Bronx provides adults with a different entry point for conversations about equity. It reminds us that urban youth can conduct sharp analysis of complex factors and situations that are not cut-and-dried.'' --Early praise from SAT Bronx test-taker
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- PublisherNext Generation Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0981559506
- ISBN 13 9780981559506
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages80
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SAT Bronx: Do You Know What Bronx Kids Know?
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