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60 First Graders, 4 Teachers, One Loud New Way to Learn "New American Academy"

January 11, 2011 /

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Sixty children in a first-grade class can get loud — sometimes too loud for a teacher to explain a lesson.

o while waiting for her teacher to come by, one little girl arranged the pennies she had been given to practice subtraction into a smiley face. Another shook her pennies in a plastic bag. A high-pitched argument broke out over someone’s missing quarter.

"We don’t know what we are supposed to be doing, but we are learning about math," Thea Burnett, 6, said.

"New American Academy" http://schools.nyc.gov/SchoolPortals/17/K770/default.htm

By SHARON OTTERMAN

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/education/11class.html?hp