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2008 Archives
March 28, 2008 Curriculum Leadership Journal Perspectives on relevance and the quest for rigorous student learning: balancing life to text and text to life by Elliot Washor
March 21, 2008 Nashville Business Journal New School Helps Students Get the 'Big Picture' by Jenny Burns
February 28, 2008 Turnto10.com Kids Company Funds Scholarships
February 15, 2008 The Philadelphia Enquirer Plan would bolster troubled city schools: A task force recommended added services for 70 struggling facilities by Susan Snyder
February 7, 2008 St. Louis Post-Dispatch At one school, the students become part of a family by Sylvester Brown Jr.
2007 Archives
December 26, 2007 The New York Times Engaging a Distant Teenager With Extended Hours by Susan Engel
November 8, 2007 Press Release DOWNLOAD PDF of Big Picture Company Co-Founder Dennis Littky Recognized as Purpose Prize Fellow, Joins Ranks of Social Innovators Over Age 60 Leading with Experience
October 2007 Techniques DOWNLOAD PDF of Seeding the Edge of Career and Technical Education by Charles Mojkowski and Elliot Washor
October 21, 2007 The New York Times Soft Spot for the Bronx by Anne Barnard
October 8, 2007 Providence Business News Dutch look to Met model for kid-centered schools by William Hamilton
October 5, 2007 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Seeing the big picture by Steve Giegerich
September 2007 Giraffe Heroes Project Dennis Littky: Featured Giraffe
September 25, 2007 KPBS News - San Diego State University Dutch Officials May Model Their High School System After The Met by Ana Tintocalis
2007 National League of Cities Download PDF of Setting the Stage for New High Schools: Municipal Leadership in Supporting High School Alternatives
Summer 2007 Big Picture Company Big Picture Company Case Statement
Summer 2007 Annenberg Institute for School Reform: Voices in Urban Education Alternative High Schools: Pioneering Promising Practices for Blending Academic and Extended Learning Opportunities by David Lemmel and Samuel Steinberg Seidel

September 5, 2007 The City Paper Online Big Picture school tracks progress through narratives by Amanda Maynord
August 20, 2007 St. Louis Post-Dispatch Grit and smarts helped principal beat the odds by Steve Giegerich
August 2007 The American School Board Journal Five Questions for Huber Trenado, home ownership advocate
Summer 2007 The New England Journal of Higher Education The Big Picture College: A Model High School Program Graduates by Jamie E. Scurry and Dennis Littky
June 24, 2007 CourierPost Online Experimental school flourishes by Matt Katz
June 21, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle Student has all the answers for teacher to buy a home
by Carolyn Said
June 2007 Ten Ways to Change the World in Your Twenties (www.tenways.org) The Big Picture Company is named an "Organization Making a Difference"
Spring 2007 e australia Balancing life to text and text to life by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski
May 25, 2007 Detroit Free Press School succeeds where others fail: Focus on students, innovation puts Detroit charter ahead by Chastity Pratt
May 9, 2007 The City Paper Online Parents get ‘Big Picture’ about new high school by Amanda Maynord
February 2007 UCLA’s Institute for Democracy,
Education, & Access -
Multiple Perspectives on Multiple Pathways Series
DOWNLOAD PDF of Small Schools as Multiple Pathways to
College, Career, and Civic Participation: Can they Balance the Individual and Collective Aims of Schooling?
by Karen Quartz & Elliot Washor
February 2, 2007 Denver Post DOWNLOAD PDF of Students get a taste of business ownership: Mapleton students set up coffee shop to get experience running a business by Will Shanley
January 17, 2007 Education Week DOWNLOAD PDF of The College Juggernaut: Just Who Is It That Needs to Get Ready? by Elliot Washor & Charles Mojkowski
January 6, 2007 The Fresno Bee DOWNLOAD PDF of School will push creativity by Christina Vance
January 5, 2007 The Providence Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of A RISD program fuels talents, dreams of area high school students by Linda Borg
December 2006/ January 2007 Educational Leadership DOWNLOAD PDF of What do you mean by rigor? by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski
2006 Archives
December 28, 2006 The Providence Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of Business in a bottle by Paul Grimaldi
December 18, 2006 News-Leader.com DOWNLOAD PDF of Solutions Aren't Cheap: Springfield (MO) educators are looking at dropout prevention programs that work for other districts by Juliana Goodwin
November 11, 2006 Fresno Bee DOWNLOAD PDF of It's time to try a new kind of school idea by Jon F. Morse, Sr.
October 19, 2006 INDYSTAR.COM DOWNLOAD PDF of Charter schools/Smart exhibition/ Indianopolis Met students show off knowledge during oral presentations by Andy Gammill
October 3, 2006 Providence Business News DOWNLOAD PDF of Students use passion to quench thirst for business by Nicole Dionne
October 1, 2006 HeraldTimesOnline.com (Indianapolis) DOWNLOAD PDF of More firms offering internships to teens by Associated Press
September 16, 2006 Providence Business News DOWNLOAD PDF of Seeing the 'big picture,' educator reinvents schools by Bridget Botelho
June 2006 The New Educator DOWNLOAD PDF of High Schools as Communities in Communities by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski
June 27, 2006 Detroit News DOWNLOAD PDF of Gates Foundation principles can help Detroit schoolkids by Laura Berman
June 16, 2006 Business Week DOWNLOAD PDF of Meet the Met, A School Success Story: With a radically different approach to education, this high school in Providence, Rhode Island is fast becoming a model across the country by William C. Symonds
June 16, 2006 Business Week DOWNLOAD PDF of A School Makeover in Mapleton: A school district outside Denver has galvanized students and parents with a daring experiment in public school choice by William C. Symonds
June 16, 2006 Business Week DOWNLOAD PDF of Motivation, Mentoring, Miracles: A Rhode Island high school, The Met, helps students who mostly have failed at conventional schools fulfill their academic potential
June 15, 2006 San Francisco Chronicle DOWNLOAD PDF of Small, unorthodox school has big results: MetWest's seniors all graduate, and all accepted to college by Simone Sebastian
June 11, 2006 The Providence Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of Brothers in crime: How Johnny's childhood ended at age 7 by Channing Gray
June 10, 2006 The Providence Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of Met School's spirit breeding network of academic honor by Felice J. Freyer
June 2, 2006 The Providence Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of The Met does school its way, and it's worked for 10 years by Linda Borg
June 2006 Phi Delta Kappan DOWNLOAD PDF of Creating New Steps: Innovating from the Edge to the Middle by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski
May 11, 2006 The Providence Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of Drugstore pioneer Stanley Goldstein looks back by Paul Grimaldi
May 8, 2006 The Wall Street Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of Young, Eager – and Cheap: Interns can be well worth their low price by Raymund Flandez
April 18, 2006 Rochester Democrat & Chronicle N.Y. should take cue from Rhode Island: Loosen tight leash on schools by Dan Drmacich, Guest Essayist
March 31, 2006 Providence Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of Senioritis? Not At The Met by Linda Borg
March 19, 2006 Philadelphia Inquirer Pennsylvania's Project 720, a state Education Department initiative, calls for smaller, personalized high school "learning communities" and higher academic standards by Dan Hardy
March 2006 Edutopia DOWNLOAD PDF of The Daring Dozen 2006: Twelve Who Are Reshaping the Future of Education by GLEF Staff (see numbers
8 & 9!)
February 1, 2006 University of Denver DOWNLOAD PDF of Internships bring high school students to DU by Brenda Goates
January 21, 2006
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans, LA)

Education experts to interact with public: Central City meeting will be held today by Coleman Warner

January 11, 2006 EdWeek.org Live Chat A Second Front in Education Reform
a Live Chat with Ron Wolk
2005 Archives
Date
Publication
Article
December 31, 2005 The Philadelphia Inquirer DOWNLOAD PDF of Students get chance to have career years by Melanie Burney
December 29, 2005 Courier-Post Camden Should Look to Copy Met East Model (Editorial)
December 12, 2005 The Providence Journal DOWNLOAD PDF of Met School Classes Are Entering Cyberspace by Linda Borg
December 5, 2005 Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Monday Morning Memo DOWNLOAD PDF of Indianapolis Met Students are Learning Through Internship
November 29, 2005
The Providence Journal-Bulletin

Met School principal wins award from RIC by Linda Borg

November 1, 2005
Indianapolis Star

Students to study charter schools: IUPUI graduate class aims to help with financial, academic aspects of ventures by Staci Hupp

November 2005 District Administration Radical Reformer by Gary Stager
Fall 2005 Mosaic Ford PAS Program prepares students for college
October 30, 2005
The Philadelphia Inquirer

The one-size-fits-all building answer will not work if students are to learn better, think more globally. By Chris Satullo

 

October 13, 2005 The Golden Gate Express Online MetWest High School Bringing in SF State Interns: East Oakland school has small group of students teaching by Kristi Dyes
October 5, 2005 Edutopia Learning One on One by Ken Ellis (including the 8-minute video, The Met: A Passion for Learning)
October 4, 2005 The Providence Journal-Bulletin DOWNLOAD PDF of To Their Health: School Expands Services with Health Clinic by Karen A. Davis
October 2005 Great Schools by Design

National Summit on School Design
(including mp3 of Elliot Washor's keynote address)

2005 DesignShare DOWNLOAD PDF of Dollars and Sense II: Lessons from Good, Cost-Effective Small Schools co-authored by Elliot Washor
September 14, 2005 Education Week Standards and Variation: Nonconforming Our Way to High Quality
by Elliot Washor & Charles Mojkowski
September 10, 2005 Smart City Radio Improving Schools and Family Circumstances with Elliot Washor and Matt Fellowes
September 5, 2005
The Providence Journal-Bulletin

Met School students take tour of South: The students will go to Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and Washington, D.C., over the next two weeks, and may get involved in a hurricane relief project.

September 1, 2005
Hartford Courant

New Features Mark Schools' First Day: Magnet Program Among The Changes by Steven Goode

August 26, 2005 Bloomfield Journal Schools ready for first day by Brian Woodman Jr.
August 8, 2005 Hartford Courant

Learning Through Doing: Classroom Work Will Be Minimal At New Magnet High School by Steven Goode

August 2005 Royal Society of Arts Journal (London) DOWNLOAD PDF of Building Virtual Bridges: Liverpool and Providence by Robin Thompson
July 2005 RI Economic Development Corporation Innovation in Education: One Student at a Time by Michael S. Arnold
June 8, 2005 The Providence Journal At city bike shop, students look to get careers in gear
by Charu Gupta
May 30, 2005 The Indianapolis Star

Real-world work inspires students - Internships give charter-school youths the chance to learn outside the classroom. by Kim L. Hooper

May 19, 2005 Rocky Mountain News Appealing to passions and dreams: Reform models take personal approach, add academic rigor by Jennifer Miller
May 16, 2005 Newsweek Other Winning Equations - The Innovators: Some problems call for unique solutions. Here, a few ideas that work.
May 9, 2005 BBC World Service Innovative American High School
April 28, 2005 Camden New Jersey Land and Dream

High hopes in Camden: School Funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates Philanthropy - New school to mix academics, internships by Sarah Greenblatt

April 28, 2005 The Providence Journal

Met School Miracle (Editorial)

April 25, 2005 National Public Radio - All Things Considered School Features Real-World Learning, No Grades
by Margot Adler
April 20, 2005 Press Release - Innovations in American Government Awards THE MET SCHOOL IS A FINALIST FOR GOVERNMENT “OSCAR”
Providence High School Defies Dropout Trends, is Eligible for $100,000 Prize
April 19, 2005 The Indianapolis Star
April 5, 2005 The London Telegraph A lesson for the education system by John Preston
April 5, 2005 YO! Youth Outlook Dropping Out: A Former OUSD Student Ponders Oakland's High Drop Out Rate by Nick Datesman (a student at Big Picture's MetWest H.S. in Oakland, CA and an intern at YO!)
March 15, 2005 Tech Learning Big Time for Small Schools by Kim Carter
Spring 2005 Curriculum & Technology Quarterly (ASCD) Download PDF of The World is Integrated! by Dennis Littky with Samantha Grabelle
February 26, 2005
National Education Summit on High Schools

Prepared remarks by Bill Gates, Co-founder

February 2005 Fast Company The 2005 Fast 50: Fast is a state of mind with Dennis Littky named number 4 "Peak Performer"
February 7, 2005 Nation's Cities Weekly (official publication of National League of Cities) Schools as Centers of Innovation In and For Their Communities by Elliot Washor and Charles Mojkowski
January 12, 2005
Detroit Free Press

When Cosby comes, she'll be waiting by Rochelle Riley

 

2004 Archives
December 27, 2004
Forum

Dennis Littky interviewed along with staff and students by Michael Krasny

December 27, 2004
The Los Angeles Times

Tests Are History at This High School by Elizabeth Mehren

December 10, 2004 The Sunday Times of India Cool's the rule at Bill Gates' schools
December 10, 2004
The Providence Journal

Business consultant is way out of the box: Guru can't stand business as usual by Timothy C. Barmann

December 2, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
Big Picture Schooling in a garage by Joan Ryan
November/December 2004
Edutopia Magazine
DOWNLOAD PDF of High School's New Face by Roberta Furger
November 24, 2004
USA Today
The Big Picture: Schools tailored to students' individual needs
November 23, 2004
School Board News
Guest Viewpoint: Test scores alone don't measure a school's success by Dennis Littky
November 4, 2004
The Sacramento Bee
(also re-printed in Edutopia News November 14, 2004)
School's learning focus is on present-day theme by Walter Yost
Late Fall 2004
Horace - Special 20th Anniversary Issue
DOWNLOAD PDF of Voting for Homecoming Queen Does Not Prepare Students for Democracy by Dennis Littky with Samantha Grabelle
October 28, 2004
The Providence Journal

Students taught lesson on voting's importance: At the Met School, Mayor David N. Cicilline explains why voting can affect students' futures. by Karen A. Davis

Fall 2004 Horace (Vol. 20 No. 4) We All Win Together: Met Graduates Reflect on Advisories by Chris Hempel, Joe Claprood, Elissa Toro, Jesse Suchmann, Alex Rivera, Takesha Lopes, Ramon Frias, Kristin Waugh-Hempel

September/October 2004
Forum Focus
(a regular publication of the Forum for Youth Investment)
DOWNLOAD PDF of "Voices from The Fields: A Conversation with Mary Jane Clancy and Elliot Washor" (pages 3-4 of 4)

September 28, 2004

The Washington Post

Turning to More Than Scores to Rate Schools by Jay Mathews

September 22, 2004
Education Week

‘One Student At a Time’ by Caroline Hendrie

September 22, 2004
Education Week

An Unconventional Culture by Caroline Hendrie

September 13, 2004
The Denver Post

Mapleton turns to mini-schools for more choice by John Ingold

September 6, 2004
Crain's Chicago Business

New high school model counts on business input by Dennis Littky

September 2004
Catalyst Chicago

Up Close High School Reform: No bells, no classes, no letter grades by Maureen Kelleher

August 31, 2004
Rocky Mountain News

Mapleton blazes trail in high school reform by Nancy Mitchell

August 25, 2004
The New York Times

Report Offers No Clear Victory for Charter School Opponents by Samuel G. Freedman

July 7, 2004
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The San Diego Tribune
High school with a real-world twist - Students to take college classes, do work internships by David E. Graham
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June 15, 2004
The Providence Journal

Bond would beef up vocational schools: The $15-million bond would pay for long-overdue repairs and improvements to the state's eight career and technical centers. by Linda Borg

Summer 2004
Educational Horizons (The Official Publication of Pi Lambda Theta)
DOWNLOAD PDF of If We Love Our Children More Than We Love Our Schools, the System Must Change by Dennis Littky with Samantha Grabelle
May 2004

Educational Leadership (ASCD)

DOWNLOAD PDF of Moment to Moment at The Met by Dennis Littky, Nancy Diaz, Danique Dolly, Chris Hempel, Charlie Plant, Phil Price, and Sam Grabelle

May 21, 2004
Bloomfield Journal
Intermediate school gets nod from board by Brian Woodman, Jr.
January 14, 2004
Indianapolis Star
IPS partner leaves program: Goodwill Industries ends TechWest ties, offers plan to start 2 new charter schools by Kim L. Hooper
2003 Archives
2003 What Kids Can Do Student Learning in Small Schools: An Online Portfolio
November 9, 2003
The Providence Journal
Edwatch by Julia Steiny: In search of the anti-drug
October 8, 2003
Live Webcast of U.S. Dept. of Education High School Leadership Summit
Go to http://www.vodium.com/mediapod/ed/high_school_leadership/ and click on "Morning Session." After the page loads, on the left side, select "Contents" and scroll down to select "Student Panel Discussion" to hear Gina Rodriguez, Met Student, speak about The Met as a member of the panel.
September 2003
DesignShare
Innovative Pedagogy and School Facilities (Doctoral Thesis and Design Manifesto) by Elliot Washor (DesignShare Editor's Choice Award 2003)
Fall 2003
NonviolenceNews - The Institute for the Study & Practice of Nonviolence Newsletter
DOWNLOAD PDF of My Path of Nonviolence by a Met student (Note: may need to zoom in to read font clearly)
July 22, 2003
The High School Connection
Life in Providence by Brian C. Jones
July 15, 2003
Redesigning High Schools
The Met Center as profiled on The Knowledge Loom by The Education Alliance at Brown University
June 9, 2003
The Providence Journal
These teens getting jump on real life by Karen A. Davis
May 1, 2003
The Providence Journal
Outward Bound by Linda Borg
April 9, 2003
Education Week
Accountability In Small Schools: Ensuring That No Child Is Left Unknown by Elliot Washor & Charles Mojkowski
February 26, 2003
The New York Times
Gates Foundation Providing $31 Million for Small Schools by Greg Winter
February 2003
Reshaping the Landscape of School Leadership Development: A Global Perspective ed. by Philip Hallinger
DOWNLOAD PDF of "Developing School Leaders: One Principal at a Time" by Dennis Littky and Molly Schen (chapter)
January 25, 2003
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Truman students provide ambition to school's higher standards by La Monica Everett-Haynes
Winter 2003
Horace
The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Myles Horton book review by Dennis Littky and Seth Linden
2002 Archives
December 2002
Personalized Learning: Preparing High School Students to Create their Futures (book)

Chapter 1 - "When Learning Matters - Using Learning Plans To Educate One Student At A Time" by Elliot Washor

December 9, 2002
Denver Post
Small-schoolers prepare Big Picture High by Eric Hubler
Winter 2002
Horace
Individualizing My Own Learning by Laura Hughes (Met senior)
October 2002
Teacher Magazine
In With the New by Ronald A. Wolk
October 2002
DesignShare
DOWNLOAD PDF of Dollars and Sense: The Cost-Effectiveness of Small Schools co-authored by Elliot Washor
October 7, 2002
The Providence Journal
Met schools show small is beautiful by Dennis Littky
September 25, 2002
The Providence Journal
Top of His Class: A Maverick educator in Providence wins mainstream recognition in New York by Michael Corley
Fall 2002
Edutopia
DOWNLOAD PDF of Community-Based School Planning: If Not Now, When? by Steven Bingler
Fall 2002
Horace
Elements of Smallness Create Conditions for Success
by Jill Davidson
August 8, 2002
The Providence Journal
The Met: A School and a Community by Karen A. Davis
April 21, 2002
The Providence Journal
Prerequisite: Parental Involvement
Spring/Summer 2002