Amy Love firmly believes that bringing mindfulness practice into the lives
of inner city public school youth is an act of compassion that positively effects their social,...
Sometimes students in regular,
old inner city public schools made more impressive gains than students in publicly funded but privately owned and managed charter schools, and sometimes students in charter schools did better.
Her idea was to engage some of the nation's best and brightest college students upon their graduation from undergrad into giving back to society by teaching in some of the nation's
toughest inner city public schools.
Waldorf education in
an inner city public school: The Urban Waldorf School of Milwaukee.
A visit was arranged and I was fortunate enough to see firsthand how the healing curriculum and pedagogy of Waldorf education was working in
an inner city public school.
Eager to learn more about the comparisons and contrasts between the two societies, I decided to take another gap year in order to volunteer in
an inner city public school.
And you haven't seen a classroom in
an inner city public school that is so out - of - control that no one learns.
Here's a scene you don't see very often: a line of
an inner city public school students standing outside of a classroom eagerly waiting for their teacher to let them in and begin class.
It's not abnormal for gunshots to ring out at a graduation event, a block party, or funeral for that matter in this town in
the inner city public school community.