Category: The CSF Family
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Conversation with Patrick McCloskey
Last Thursday, CSF hosted a conversation with Patrick McCloskey, author of The Street Stops Here: A Year at a Catholic High School in Harlem. The event was a great success – lively conversations, good food and drinks, and best of all, a gathering of CSF supporters, including a scholarship recipient family. The evening began with…
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Spotlight on CSF Partner Program – Washington Scholarship Fund
The School Choice Demonstration Project (SCDP) at the University of Arkansas has released a report examining the experiences and outcomes of families participating in the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only federally-funded school voucher program in the U.S. operated by CSF partner, the Washington Scholarship Fund (WSF). On January 2004, President Bush signed the District…
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School Visit in the South Bronx
This week we visited Saints Peter and Paul School on Brook Avenue in the South Bronx. No less than 86 children attend the school with CSF scholarships, and we met quite a few of them during our school tour. First up, the first-graders performed a tug-of-war in the gym class. Wow, what an enthusiastic bunch!…
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Alexander’s Magnificent Slide
During the 08-09 application period, many families visited the NYC office, and CSF staffers had the pleasure of meeting new parents and students, while also seeing old faces. On these visits, parents dealt with applications, and the students graced us with their artistic talents. As families and schools get ready for the 09-10 application process,…
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Way to go, St. Anselm!
CSF staffers went on a school visit today to St. Anselm Parochial School in the South Bronx. In meeting practically the whole third grade class, student by student, we learned that many are excited to be doctors, teachers, police officers (to stop bank robbers!), veterinarians, paleontologists, and singers, just like Alicia Keys, Mia told us.…
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The Standardized Test vs. The Crayon Box
Looking at USA Today’s op ed letters, “Learning at home,” is a response to “Schools teach for tests,” which argued that curriculum is often overly-focused on standardized tests and the test taking skills required. Ms. Joane S. Johnson commented about the lack of creative, out-of-the-box education imposed upon her high-achieving first grade grandson. In “Learning…
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Meet Yesenia
Yesenia is a 3rd grader and CSF recipient we met recently at Sacred Heart School in the Bronx. We interrupted her music lesson (picture thirty 8-year-olds practicing the recorder) to ask her a few questions in the hallway. CSF: How long have you been at Sacred Heart? Yesenia: Since Pre-K. CSF: What can you tell…