42 Benjamin Altman, 71 Hester Street, NYC
Insideschools review PS 42 is a neighborhood school that straddles the boundary between Chinatown and the Lower East Side. Although the school gets it share of Chinese students, some Chinatown residents consider the area around it unsafe and others are unaware of the school altogether because it is obscured by a towering neighborhood high school. What they are missing out on is an up and coming school where artwork fills walls and student achievement is making notable gains. Kids learn at impressive rates here. Test scores have so improved that PS 42 is on the state's list of most improved schools and the chancellor's list of 209 schools exempted from having to install a new standardized curriculum. At the same time, Principal Rosa O'Day insists that staffers "take teaching and learning very seriously, but not at the expense of humanity." During our visit to the school, we were glad to see teachers get excited over children's fluffy renderings of baby chicks or comment knowledgeably about students' home lives and work.
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Location: Lower East Side, Manhattan, Manhattan, New York City, NYC, NY, United States, US, USA, North America
Photo credit: © Patti McConville / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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