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Grooming Teachers, Bank Street Puts Stress on Basics and a Belief in Kids

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 7/31/17

Like many schools, Bank Street serves hundreds of children from kindergarten through eighth grade until 4:30 p.m. from September to June. At that point in the afternoon, instead of locking up the building, the school’s staff moves around tables to set up for its next arriving students: prospective Teachers.

Founded in 1916, the Bank Street College of Education, located in Manhattan’s Morningside Heights, prepares educators to work in schools and beyond. The college was founded based on the ideas of education theorist John Dewey, with the goal of studying how children learn and incorporating child development into educational practices.

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