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ERIC Number: ED274803
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 21
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
City-as-School (C.A.S.).
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY.
City-as-School (CAS) is a New York City Board of Education independent alternative high school whose primary curriculum objective is to link students with hundreds of learning experiences throughout the community. Students receive academic credit for each learning experience successfully completed. Credit is determined by the nature of the activities detailed within an unusual curriculum design, LEAP (Learning Experience Activities Package). Each LEAP, which constitutes the students' course work, consists of a series of content area goals and behavioral tasks to attain those goals in ways unique to each particular community resource and its site facilities. Students do not attend classes in one building but move from one learning experience to another based on their chosen program. A small core of in-house classes provides enrichment and remediation when no appropriate external resource is available. CAS consists of five components (administration, admissions, guidance, resource services, student services) adaptable in whole or in part. Schools choosing to replicate this program receive a demonstration manual (at cost) with component descriptions and forms. CAS participants have significantly increased their school attendance, number of Carnegie units attempted, and proportion of Carnegie units completed and passed and have a significantly lower dropout rate. (CAS data in the form of statistical tables are appended.) (YLB)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
Sponsor: Ford Foundation, New York, NY.
Authoring Institution: New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY.
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A