By SARA RIMER
Published: New York Time, June 26, 2008
This article is about a very unusual New York City school The mission of the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, is to raise academic achievement by connecting students with the harbor that surrounds the city. The school’s founders say that by learning about the vast estuary — its history, its fish, its ecology — and by developing the skills to navigate it they will develop necessary skills as well as confidence.
This article is about a very unusual New York City school The mission of the Urban Assembly New York Harbor School, in Brooklyn’s Bushwick neighborhood, is to raise academic achievement by connecting students with the harbor that surrounds the city. The school’s founders say that by learning about the vast estuary — its history, its fish, its ecology — and by developing the skills to navigate it they will develop necessary skills as well as confidence.
