And Education for All
Unlocking the potential of students and schools
The following comments are adapted from a panel discussion that took place in October 2004 in Pruyne Lecture Hall. The event was introduced by Karen Sánchez-Eppler, a professor of American studies and English who has been particularly active in forging relationships between Amherst College and public schools. There were three panelists: Joseph Wilson '64 is the principal of Ithaca High School, in New York, and was previously the principal of Baltimore City College High School, an inner-city magnet school. During Wilson's 10-year term in Baltimore, the school went from the brink of failure to being named a state and national Blue Ribbon School of Excellence, an NASSP/Gates Foundation Breakthrough High School, a News-week Online Magazine Top American High School and an International Baccalaureate Diploma School. Jere Hochman is the superintendent of the Amherst Regional Public School system and the author of Thinking About Middle Schools. Before coming to Amherst, he spent 31 years as a teacher, principal and superintendent in the St. Louis area, where he was closely involved with the city's lauded desegregation plan. Vanessa Torres Hernandez '01 was a seventh-grade history teacher at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School in Roxbury, Mass. at the time of the panel (she recently started teaching at the Sand View School in Seattle). As an undergraduate she taught at a number of public schools through Class of 1954 Commitment to Teaching internships.
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