Transforming America's High Schools


 

ISA SCHOOLS,
PREPARING ALL
STUDENTS FOR
SUCCESS
IN COLLEGE

WU-TANG'S GZA HELPING TO BRING SCIENCE ALIVE

Thanks to ISA coach Chris Emdin, Wu-Tang Clan's GZA and a team of educators will work with students from 10 NYC schools - - among them ISA partner schools Bronx Compass, Ellis Preparatory Academy, Park East High School, Hillside Arts and Letters Academy, Brooklyn Community Arts and Media, and Arts and Media Prep - - to bring science alive through hip-hop culture.  Read the full story: http://bit.ly/WbQu9U

HELP ROCKAWAY COLLEGIATE RECOVER!
Hurricane Sandy rendered the school’s Beach Channel Campus uninhabitable so studentas are being bused daily to the Queens Metropolitan High School campus. Uniforms need to be replaced, afterschool programs supported...please click here to see how you can help!

Why ISA ?

Nationally, fewer than 75% of high school students graduate - and graduation rates sink to 50% or below for African-American and Hispanic students. In some large, failing high schools, graduation rates are as low as 35%...

Stories from the Field

Brooklyn Preparatory High School has 380 students and graduated its second class of seniors in June 2009. When it opened, in the fall of 2004, it was housed in a much larger, traditional junior high school...

Seeing is believing. ISA helps schools and districts increase their graduation rates and their students' college success rates. Visiting an ISA partner school gives you the opportunity to see ISA teaching and learning. You’ll see classrooms in action, speak with teachers and school leaders, and hear from the students themselves about the difference an ISA school can make. For more information on an ISA school tour, please contact info@isa-ed.org.

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