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The High School Curriculum Every Urban Planner Wishes They'd Had
A Bronx private school uses the city to unite and apply the variety of subjects taught in class.
For a high school curriculum, dividing up subjects into separate specialized classes is pure pragmatism. For understanding real life, it's a little disjointed.
"There is an artificiality to a disciplinary approach to the world," says Andy Meyers, a history teacher at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private school in the Bronx. "We don’t walk through the world and look at a building or look at a park and say, OK, so the next 45 minutes I'm going to look at this as an English student, and then for the next 45 minutes after that I'll look at it as a science student, and then maybe tomorrow I’ll look at it as a historian. We keep all those things at play."