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As a result, about 75% of HSMSE students study German, which is offered through the Advanced Placement level, and many of them continue to study German in college. The school employs two full-time German teachers and is one of nine US partner schools of the PASCH program of the Goethe Institut through its "Schools: Partners for the Future" program.
American Studies participates in NYC Department of Education's Discovery program. The program provides opportunities for certain disadvantaged, high-poverty, low income students who scored within a certain range on the SHSAT. [5] The program takes place the summer before the student's freshman year and last approximately 4 weeks.
There is a chapter of the National Math Honor Society Mu Alpha Theta which involves students who are highly proficient in mathematics. Goldstein also has Arista and Archon chapters of the National Honor Society ; student membership in the Arista/Archon chapters is awarded for exemplary work in community service and academic achievement.
From this grew a system of seven senior colleges, four hybrid schools, six community colleges, as well as graduate schools and professional programs. CUNY was established in 1961 as the umbrella institution encompassing the municipal colleges and a new graduate school. [12] Over the years, the configuration of the institutions of CUNY has changed.
In 2005, the Board of Regents began modifying the mathematics curriculum. An integrated approach that taught topics in geometry and algebra during each of three years, with exams like “Math A” and “Math B” normally taken after a year and a half and again after three years, was replaced by a curriculum that divides topics into Algebra I ...
NAEP's category of "proficient" on a math test given to eighth graders reflects students who do well on the test and are at twelfth grade level. [25] The fact that few eighth graders are proficient by this standard and achieve at twelfth grade level has been misinterpreted to allege that few eighth graders achieve even at eighth grade level. [26]
It contains several different high schools centered on various professional themes: Finance and Information Technology; Humanities and the Arts; Law, Health Professions; Mathematics, Science Research and Technology. [1] [2] The 2010 graduation rate of the current schools approximated the graduation rate of the original school in 1992. [6]
CUNY began offering doctoral education through its Division of Graduate Studies in 1961, [11] and awarded its first two PhD to Daniel Robinson and Barbara Stern in 1965. . Robinson, formerly a professor of philosophy at the University of Oxford, received his PhD in psychology, [12] while Stern, late of Rutgers University, received her PhD in English liter