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  Hunter College High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hunter is administered by Hunter College, a division of the City University of New York (CUNY), rather than the NYC Department of Education; there is no tuition fee and it is publicly funded.
The prototypical Hunter girl was the subject of a song entitled "Sarah Maria Jones," who, the lyrics told, had "Hunter in her bones." The school became co-ed in 1974 as a result of a lawsuit by Hunter College Elementary School parents.
In the 2004-2005 school year, forty percent of Hunter students in the ninth to twelfth grades were members of at least one varsity sport.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunter_College_High_School   (3021 words)

  
 Hunter High School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hunter High School is a large public high school located at 4200 South 5600 West West Valley City, Utah.
Hunter High belongs to the Granite School District.
In their first year of competition, Hunter's Football team was held winless but turned their fortunes around the next year and made it to the "turf" (a reference to the playing surface that was installed at the University of Utah's Rice-Eccles Stadium which hosts the state high school playoffs).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunter_High_School   (353 words)

  
 Cynthia Nixon Addresses Hunter College High School Graduates
Nixon, 1984 graduate of Hunter High School, is a strong supporter of the New York City public schools and is actively working with the Alliance for Quality Education, a group that fights for funding and quality public education across the state.
The school is publicly funded (tuition-free), chartered by the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, and administered by Hunter College.
Hunter is noted for its professional schools in education, health sciences, nursing and social work, as well as its excellence in the liberal arts.
www.hunter.cuny.edu /news/newsreleases/2004/nixon.shtml   (506 words)

  
 ADFL Projects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
They spoke enthusiastically about the data they had collected from high school students and teachers and how they had been able to analyze and disseminate the results of their research or to use them as part of other research projects in which they or their institutions were engaged.
The efforts at articulation being described were college conceived, planned, and driven, and the high school teachers and their students seemed to be little more than conduits for data, variables for statistical calculations, or recipients of information given out by the colleges.
The colleges seem to rule the day when it comes to research in pedagogy and publication of materials on teaching, although the professors may not have seen the inside of a high school classroom in more than twenty years.
www.mla.org /adfl/projects/articulation/webb.htm   (802 words)

  
 Admission Test: Hunter College High School Entrance Exam
Hunter College High School is a combination of junior and senior high school with an enrollment of about 1,200 students.
Hunter High School is the No. 1 public school feeder in the nation to Ivy League colleges.
The school is administered by Hunter College and chartered by the board of trustees of the City University of New York.
www.nytutoring.com /testprep/gifted/about_hunter.html   (455 words)

  
 Hunter College Elementary School
Hunter College Elementary School is a laboratory school for the study of "intellectually gifted" children.
Part of the Hunter College's School of Education, Hunter Elementary has been something of an orphan in recent years, parents say, neglected by the college and ignored by the Department of Education, which has no say in its operation.
One of the strongest draws of the school used to be automatic admission to Hunter College High School, widely regarded as one of the best high schools in the city.
www.insideschools.org /fs/school_profile.php?id=76   (778 words)

  
 Admissions
Hunter College High School is one of the oldest self-contained schools for intellectually gifted students in the nation.
Hunter College High School is a coeducational laboratory school organized as a research and demonstration center to serve the spectrum of New York City's gifted junior and senior high school population (grades 7-12).
Schools must submit the names of all eligible candidates who are interested in attending HCHS to the Admissions Office by November 3, 2006 (postmark) for admission in Fall 2007.
www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu /admissions/index.html   (930 words)

  
 Hunter College High School - Free net encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Hunter is administered by Hunter College, a division of CUNY, rather than the NYC Department of Education; there is no tuition fee and it is publicly funded.
Hunter along with the Original Townsend Harris High School in (City College) were lab schools, established to assist in preparing admission to their respective schools.
The student-to-counselor ratio at Hunter is lower than the national average and comparable to that of many private high schools (although admittedly the grooming is not as intense as at some of those schools).
www.netipedia.com /index.php/HCHS   (2534 words)

  
 HCES | About HCES | History of HCES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
One year later, the name was changed to The Normal College of the City of New York; the school encompassed both high school and college level courses.
Hunter College Model School (an elementary school) was established in 1870 as an integral part of the Teacher Education Program of the Normal College.
The High School was officially designated as a laboratory school for the education of intellectually gifted girls in 1955.
hces.hunter.cuny.edu /abouthces/history.html   (249 words)

  
 LACUNY Institute 2000 - Pre-College Outreach Minutes
College Preparatory Initiative (CPI): Begun 10 years ago, it has opened the dialog between the library and COLLEGE NOW to work with high school students; first semester, entailed working with four high school students in 11th and 12th grades to improve writing skills; next term will concentrate on social and behavioral sciences.
Hunter High School students are required to take an entrance exam; 240 students are admitted each year, and the seventh graders must be two years ahead in both math and reading.
High School students come to the HCHS library for an introduction to resources for term papers in social studies and in science; they receive instruction in library resources and materials; they have access to the library whenever it’s open no passes are required.
lacuny.cuny.edu /institute/precollege/precolmin.html   (2754 words)

  
 Hunter College High School Entrance Exam (Admission Test Prep)
The Hunter College High School is a public school established to educate intellectually gifted students of diverse ethnic, cultural and socio-economic backgrounds from the five boroughs of New York City.
School Principals are asked to identify students who performed at high levels on the fifth grade standardized tests (greater than 90th percentile in Total Reading and Math).
In school, the student is receiving instruction at the 6th grade level, which is not sufficiently rigorous for taking the Hunter exam.
www.nytutoring.com /testprep/gifted/hunterhs.html   (764 words)

  
 Acceleration: Valuable high school to college option
Specialized and accelerated schools like the Bronx High School of Science, Hunter College High School, or the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics may obviate the need for additional acceleration, because such schools are typically attuned to the individual talents of students and make available opportunities to proceed at their own speed.
Enrolling in community college or university courses at a nearby institution concurrent with high school during the summer or the regular academic year, either going beyond course sequences completed in high school or as a way of exploring new areas.
Transition School mathematics is designed to prepare EEP students for calculus; most entrants have completed a year of algebra, so the class focuses on second year algebra, precalculus, geometry, and the basics of probability and statistics.
www.gt-cybersource.org /Record.aspx?NavID=2_0&rid=11412   (3241 words)

  
 Hunter College High School
Like Hunter College Elementary School, Hunter College High School is touted as a "laboratory" school for the study of "gifted" education, and is administered by the City University of New York.
Students at Hunter College HS have enlisted the New York Civil Liberties Union to protest the administration's interference in the production of the school yearbook, the New York Sun reported on May 10, 2006.
Hunter is the place to be if you want to learn with the best of the best, and in a small, liberal environment, with teachers who aren't afraid to challenge students and provoke intelligent discussion.
www.insideschools.org /fs/school_profile.php?id=1143   (1384 words)

  
 The Roslyn School District | Long Island, NY
Roslyn High School ranks fourth among the nation's public high school in the rate of success of its students gaining admission to the best colleges and universities, according to an article published on Friday, April 2, 2004 by the Wall Street Journal.
Roslyn High School ranked fourth, in a tie with three other schools, among all the public high schools in the United States, and first among the public high schools on Long Island.
Among the indicators utilized to determine which of America's public high schools had the highest student performance over the decade up to 1999 were nation-wide exams such as the PSAT, SAT and ACT, achievements tests and state-wide proficiency tests like Regents exams and their equivalents in other states.
www.roslynschools.org /code/scope.htm   (539 words)

  
 Sign Below to Protect Extracurricular Freedoms at Hunter College High School Petition : [ powered by iPetitions.com ]
We, the undersigned members of the Hunter community, are deeply concerned with the actions recently taken by the Hunter College High School administration regarding the Annals yearbook publication.
Hunter is the unforgettably unique institution that it is because of its dynamic student body and the extracurricular and social freedoms that have always encouraged students to express their vibrancy, creativity and intelligence in a self-nourishing environment.
It is that ineffable culture of student freedom that has rendered generations of Hunter alumni incapable of describing their high school experience to outsiders, because we know they just simply would not understand.
www.ipetitions.com /petition/HunterAnnalsPetition   (1105 words)

  
 hunter college elementary school
Hunter College Elementary School is a school for gifted and talented students Pre-primary through Sixth Grade who live in Manhattan.
Hunter College, a senior college of the City University of New...
Hunter College Elementary School was established in 1870 as part of the Hunter College...
www.schoolblast.net /hunter-college-elementary-school   (766 words)

  
 NOTES ON PEOPLE (02/18/96)
At Hunter College High School she serves as the vice-president of the Student Council and co-editor of the school magazine, The Observer.
She attends Ukrainian School in New York and is an active member of Plast in New York, where she serves as a counselor for younger children.
At Chaney High School, Miss Hancher was a member of the school choir, where she served as piano accompanist.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/1996/079626.shtml   (717 words)

  
 Winners of the 1996 ISEF Competition at RU
Fieldston School: High Honors Michael Kestenbaum, 12 The effects of long-term potentiation and stress related hormones (aldosterone and RU 28362) on the expression of GAP-43.
High Honors Marisa Matthew, 12 The use of a supravital stain as an adjunct to assess the accuracy of x sperm ratio determined by fish.
Schreiber High School: Honors Elizabeth Kass, 11 Analysis of DNA incorporation in transgenic mice using PCR, southern blot and triglyceride assay.
www.rockefeller.edu /pubinfo/fairwinners.html   (1443 words)

  
 The CUNY News Wire » Blog Archive » CUNY Enrollments from New York’s Select Public High Schools More ...
Highly prepared students from New York City’s select public high schools are coming to The City University of New York at a rate that has more than doubled in the last decade, new enrollment figures show.
Leaders were Hunter College High’s with a 160 percent increase; Stuyvesant with 110.8 percent; Midwood with 104.9 percent; and Bronx High School of Science with 100.8 percent.
College Now, the University’s academic enrichment program for high school students, enrolls 40,500 students at CUNY campuses and at more than 200 high schools throughout the five boroughs of the City of New York.
www1.cuny.edu /forum/?p=88   (525 words)

  
 Jennie Schneier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The campus schools, which include Hunter College Elementary School and Hunter College High School, are special admissions public schools, which means that in order to attend the schools students must pass a test.
Hunter is described as a school for the gifted and talented, and has a wonderful reputation in the eyes of the outside world.
I got into college, a college I wanted to go to, not one of the big names that all my classmates went to, and now, I am happy, and maybe even a little bit educated.
www.skidmore.edu /academics/english/courses/105web02/1schneie.htm   (735 words)

  
 Hunter College High School
She was born in Flushing, Queens, and grew as the second to youngest of four children, two sisters and one brother.
I know that I've had problems with school, and outside family problems, and coming and talking to her, has helped me dealing with problems and not, as some would say, go crazy.
When asked about what the nurses office means to her, Chelsea, a senior at Hunter College High School, said: "When I was younger I used to come here all the time.
www.harlemlive.org /community/Education/sienna.html   (869 words)

  
 Continuing Education at Hunter College
Continuing Education at Hunter College classroom locations are listed on each course's page on this website.
CS = Campus Schools = Hunter College Campus Schools: This is the location of Hunter College High School and can be reached by taking the 6 Train to the 96th Street stop.
Brookdale: This is Hunter College's Campus of the Schools of Health Science, located on East 25th Street and 1st Avenue.
ce.hunter.cuny.edu /alerts/detail.cfm?alertid=44   (451 words)

  
 Columbia American History Online
Elizabeth Meola Aaron is currently teaching Advanced Placement U.S. History at Summit High School in New Jersey, where she has been on the faculty for seven years.
At his school, Kotzin was a leader in the integration of technology into the history classroom, and he published an article about his classroom use of the Valley of the Shadow Web site, "The Internet as an Opportunity for Students to Create Their Own Document-Based Question," in The History Teacher (August 2001).
In her school and her district, she is a leader in the integration of technology into the curricula of content classes.
www.caho.columbia.edu /help/bios.html   (3073 words)

  
 Hunter College High School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Campus Schools will follow the same procedures as other New York City Public Schools.
Hunter College Campus School new web interface e-mail system address is mail.hccs.hunter.cuny.edu.
The Hunter Seventh Grade Survival Guide is online.
www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu   (116 words)

  
 Hunter College High School (New York, NY)
Hunter College High School is a public coeducational day school for intellectually gifted students in grades 7-12, located in New York City.
The school is supported and maintained by the City University of New York.
Students must be recommended by their elementary school principal to sit for the exam.
www.geniusdenied.com /Resources/SearchRecord.aspx?NavID=8_0&rid=10305&catid=101&typeid=123&sid=3&rcat=Organizations&rtype=Schools&rccode=101&rtcode=123   (396 words)

  
 hces1947   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The Hunter College Campus Schools (HCCS) consist of an elementary school (nursery  grade 6) and a high school (grades 7  12), with enrollments of approximately 360 and 1200 students, respectively.
The schools are publicly funded (tuition-free), chartered by the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York, and administered by Hunter College.
The High School was officially designated as a "laboratory school for the education of intellectually gifted girls" in 1955, and in 1974 boys were admitted for the first time.
www.millermicro.com /hces1947.html   (1620 words)

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