Question:
Does Atlanta Schools Have a Busy and Productive Summer?
Answer:
Students from Atlanta Schools have been very busy this summer. The GRAD
projects and programs aim to insure that Atlanta school students make
to graduation and then on to university. Several GRAD programs are
designed to spark students' interest in science, mathematics and
arts. This summer rising sophomores, juniors and seniors from South
Atlanta, Washington and the New Schools at Carver high schools took
part in 2006 Project GRAD Summer Institute. The Atlanta Schools 2006
Project GRAD Summer Institute involved students attending a four week
session held at several Atlanta colleges and universities, including
Clark Atlanta, Emory, Georgia State, Morehouse, Oglethorpe and Atlanta
Technical College. The idea was to give students a taste of college
life. Students attended classes, meet school administrators, and spoke
with current students. More than five hundred students were allowed to
take part in this year's project. The students and their parents
attended an awards ceremony held at Martin Luther King, Jr. Chapel at
Morehouse College honoring the students' achievements. Each of
participating universities presented awards to the Atlanta Schools 2006
Project GRAD Summer Institute students for the categories of most
outstanding, most improved, citizenship and best all around student.
Project GRAD asks students to promise three things: "that you will
seek assistance and support from counselors whenever you get stuck, add
the word 'can't' to the list of four-letter words you've been
told not to say, and to continue to reach back and help other students
long after you graduate from college." Project GRAD is a
school-community partnership program that aims to improve the academic
performance, high school graduation and college attendance of
inner-city students from low-income backgrounds. Currently Project GRAD
operates in approximately one-third of Atlanta Schools and in 211
schools nationwide. Students who complete two summer institutes,
maintain the required grade point average in core college prep or
technical school courses and graduate on time with their class are
awarded $4,000 scholarships to college or technical school.
Atlanta Schools Holds First Teach For America Summer Institute
The Teach For America Summer Institute, hosted this year by Atlanta
Schools, is an intensive five week designed to aid new college
graduates in pursuing a career in teaching. Teach For America Summer
Institute is a national organization that seeks to enlist recent
college graduates in teaching in urban or rural school districts for at
least two years after graduation. The Atlanta Schools Teach For America
Summer Institute will be housed at Georgia Tech. More than 530 newly
graduated teachers willed be prepared to provided education to all
students no matter what their economic or social background. The
Atlanta Schools Teach For America Summer Institute is the most recent
location to host an institute; other locations include Houston, Los
Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Atlanta Schools Teach For America
Summer Institute will conduct remediation programs or addressing the
most pressing academic needs of the students. Teach For America has
proven to have very positive impact on Atlanta Schools. Teach For
America has had teachers in the Atlanta Schools since 2000 when the
program was introduced by Atlanta Schools superintendent Dr. Beverly L.
Hall, who had witness the results of the program while working in the
Newark, New Jersey school system.
For more information on Atlanta schools visit
http://www.schoolsk-12.com/Georgia/Atlanta/index.html
