Editor's Note: Since this video was filmed in 2001, the Urban Academy has become a member of the New York Performance Assessment Consortium, a coalition of public schools in New York State that uses a system of performance-based assessment in lieu of high-stakes exit exams. Students must complete performance assessments (known as proficiencies) in six areas: English, social studies, science, math, creative arts, and art criticism, as well as in community service, in order to graduate.
Making a Case for Comprehensive AssessmentProject-oriented evaluations that include critiques by outside experts are among the innovations at New York City's Urban Academy. Read the article.
Project-oriented evaluations that include critiques by outside experts are among the innovations at New York City's Urban Academy. Read the article.
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Release Date: 2/11/2002
Video Credits
Produced, Written, and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Associate Producers:
- Leigh Iacobucci
- Roberta Furger
Editor:
- Karen Sutherland
Camera Crew:
- Ken Ellis
- John Kelleran
- William Turnley
- Patrick Gallo
- Gabriel Miller
Narrator:
- Susan Blake
Additional footage courtesy of
- Urban Academy
- © 2002
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
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