Almost ninety years ago, Miami Edison Senior High School had its humble beginnings in a small palmetto-thatched hut inhabited by spiders, beetles, ten pupils and one teacher. After this tropical edifice burned to the ground in 1895, the activities were moved twice, finally being established in a rickety four-room structure in 1897. During the brief tenure of Principal Ernest Roller, only the common subjects and agriculture were taught. At this time the forerunner of the Parent Teacher Association, the "Mother's and Teacher's League" was formed; its aim was to further the general welfare of the student body. This organization became the oldest PTA of service in Dade County when the name was changed in 1918.
High School is a 1968 American documentary film directed by Frederick Wiseman that shows a typical day for a group of students at Northeast High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was one of the first direct cinema (or cinéma vérité) documentaries. It was shot over five weeks in March and April 1968. The film was not shown in Philadelphia at the time of its release, due to Wiseman's concerns over what he called "vague talk" of a lawsuit.
The film was released in October 1968 by Wiseman's distribution company, Zipporah Films. High School has been aired on PBS Television. Wiseman distributes his work (DVDs and 16mm prints) through Zipporah Films, which rents them to high schools, colleges, and libraries on a five-year long-term lease. High School was selected in 1991 for preservation in the National Film Registry.
Wiseman made a second documentary on high school, High School II, based on Central Park East Secondary School in New York City, released in 1994.
High School is filmed at Holyrood Secondary, a Catholic school and one of the largest comprehensive High Schools in Europe with over 2000 pupils. The series seeks to capture the school's ethos rather than the day-to-day minutiae, resulting in little in-class footage but highlighting crucial parts of the school year. The film is narrated by actor Alec Newman, who ironically plays the headmaster in Waterloo Road.
Admission to Brooklyn Tech is based exclusively on an entrance examination, known as the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT), open to all eighth and ninth grade New York City students. The test covers math (word problems and computation) and verbal (reading comprehension, logical reasoning, unscrambling paragraphs) skills. Out of the approximately 30,000 students taking the entrance examination for the September 2011 admission round, (with 23,085 students listing Brooklyn Tech as a choice on their application), about 1,951 offers were made (the most out of any of the specialized high schools, partly due to its size), making for an acceptance rate of 8.5%.
The school opened in 1922. Additions have been made to the rear of the building, and a gymnasium was built across Monroe Street. The track and football field are behind this gym, and the school's baseball/softball field is in adjacent Jackson Square Park.
Edison was founded in 1973 as the Tree of Learning, holding classes in portable buildings on the campus of Jesuit High School. In 1992, it moved into its own building on the campus of Jesuit High School, and changed its name to Thomas A. Edison High School. The school is named for the famed inventor, Thomas A. Edison, a dyslexic who struggled in school and, despite his learning differences, went on to great success.
In 2014, the name was streamlined to Edison High School. Edison has been accredited by the Northwest Accreditation Commission/AdvancED since 1990 and meets the State of Oregon requirements for private alternative schools. The majority of graduating Edison HS students go on to 2- or 4-year colleges and vocational/trade schools.
The Miami station was built on the site of the former Seaboard Air Line Railroad southern coach yards, to which Amtrak moved in 1977 when it abandoned the original Seaboard station at 2210 NW 7th Avenue in Allapattah, two miles north of downtown. Constructed in 1978, the building is one of many built under Amtrak's Standard Stations Program, an attempt to create a unified brand and identity for the company's passenger facilities in its early years. It is considered a Type 300A station, meaning it was designed to accommodate at least 300 passengers at the busiest hour of the day. Within the Amtrak system, it is similar to the station in Minneapolis-St. Paul, also built in 1978.
Bubble gum and house parties When you stole your parents rum And tried to screw everything that could breathe Back in high school we didn't have a whole lot to do We watched the world go by on the television screen Said it's the 90's kids that's way out this is way in Go beat each other up on the dance floor Told us drugs were no good But then we smoked 'em and liked 'em So much that we smoked a little more We liked 'em so much, we smoked a little more Did I call your name? Did you hear me singin' that song that I wrote for you? You're so the same but your so different I didn't recognize you It's kinda hard with all that sexual confusion Sometimes you don't know if you're gay or straight But what's the difference, it's a wonderful illusion Most times you won't make it past second base I'm in a band, we kinda suck but we don't now it yet And I don't care anyway 'Cuz soon, I'm gonna sell these drums, pay my rent Support my kid and tell him all about way back in daddy's day I'll tell him all about way back in daddy's day Did I call your name? Did you hear me singin' that song that I wrote for you? You're so the same but your so different I didn't recognize you Some years later by a soda coolerator In a corner store back in my home town This stranger smiles at me, said "Remember the class of '93?" And for some reason it makes him look real proud After all the good times he said we had He looks at me, scratches his head And asked me where the hell I ever went And the funny thing is that I never even knew him But he coulda been any one of my high school friends Did I call your name? Did you hear me singin' that song that I wrote for you? Your so the same but your so different I didn't recognize you Did I call you name? Singin' that song that I wrote for you Singin' that song I wrote for you
Ikeria Tate, 15, was seen on cellphone footage being grabbed and pulled to the ground after an incident at MiamiEdisonHighSchool on Wednesday ...The incident happened at Miami Edison High School on Wednesday following a football game.
... in Miami on June 8, 1943 ... He later spent two years attending military academies in Florida and Georgia before graduating from Miami EdisonSeniorHighSchool in 1962 in the bottom quarter of his class.
MiamiEdisonHighSchool football coach Luther Campbell uses the analogy while defending his views that public and private schools should not have to compete against each other in the state playoffs.
Continuing west, the next day the stork delivered another bundle to a household in Miami...Graham and Gibson became aware of each other as class presidents of rival high schools — Miami SeniorHigh and Edison High, respectively.
She was from a middle-class Black family in Tampa, Florida, and I was from a middle-class white one in Miami... Yet, irony of ironies, there I was, myself a member of the last segregated class to graduate from Miami EdisonSeniorHighSchool.
Wright was born in 1934 in Los Angeles and moved to Miami as a boy, where he attended Miami EdisonHighSchool... “He was always drawing, he was always scribbling,” recalled his wife, Carolyn Wright, a reporter at the Miami News when they met.
Sun Sentinel
19 Dec 2024
Sun Sentinel
19 Dec 2024