![]() ![]() ![]() There is no admission requirement for Excellence For All. At the end of each school year, EFA hosts the EFA Capstone Conference, where students present to their peers, teachers, and community partners. The Goddard Scholars Academy is an academically accelerated program for gifted and talented students of the Worcester Public Schools. Students in grades 4-6 also complete the EFA Capstone Project, where they research and propose solutions to global and community issues. Students participate in the STEM Program (coding, robotics, and 3D Printing coursework), the Scholars Program (exam school prep and executive function support), and World Languages coursework (Spanish, Mandarin, and French). Boston Educational Development FoundationĮxcellence for All (EFA) is a BPS initiative that expands access to rigorous and enriching 21st-century learning experiences.Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline.Classes, Workshops, Meetings & Events For BPS Families.Student Information System (SIS)/Family Portal.Special Education Parent Advisory Council (SpEdPAC).Social Emotional Learning & Instruction.Multilingual and Multicultural Education.O'Bryant School of Mathematics and Science Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.Community Academy of Science and Health. ![]() Maybe our town is too passionate about mediocrity to do this, but if you consider that suburbs ringing a city compete with each other, isn’t it strange that none of the towns would try it? Massachusetts towns have a lot of independence in terms of how they fund and run schools. Since, by comparison to Maryland, Florida, or Texas even those suburbs don’t have much to offer gifted and talented students, why not make the “something in the academic realm” a gifted and talented program? Childless homeowners in our town can pocket a $2 million wire transfer from Hong Kong each time the parent of an academically advanced child is drawn in by the offering. Houses in those towns sell within days, oftentimes to Asian-American cash buyers. If we wanted to boost our property values, why not keep the old building (add a few Japanese split-system HVAC units) and use the $100 million to set up something in the academic realm? Property values in Lexington, Brookline, and Newton have been off the charts because of their schools’ reputations. It is substantially more than some great colleges and universities, such as Hanover, Barnard, Georgetown University, Carnegie Mellon, et al. This is roughly comparable to the endowment-per-student at some of our nation’s most prestigious and richest colleges and universities, e.g., Johns Hopkins, Boston College, Tufts, Wake Forest, Brandeis, Bates, et al. There are roughly 600 students who use this building, which means that the $100 million cost amounts to $166,667 per student. If the experience of other towns is anything to go by, it will cost $100 million. Our Boston suburb of Happy Valley wants to spend $50 million on a same-size replacement for the K-8 school building. This letter on (“MAGE”!) says that “We have 407 school districts in MA but only about a dozen of them have programs for the gifted…” It doesn’t seem to be illegal to do this. Massachusetts, however, isn’t one of them. In a lot of states it is conventional to have special classes and/or schools for the highest academic achievers (the “gifted and talented” (a.k.a., those who read books instead of play video games and watch TV)). ![]()
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