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'Hip Hop High' charter school in its closing days
- 06-21-2010
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By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
As he offered a routine explanation of corporations in a recent class, high school economics teacher Dan Schlick hardly came across as subversive. But just by directly talking to students, just by teaching them, Schlick was part of a self-styled staff revolt in the closing days of a Hawthorne school nicknamed Hip Hop High. The teacher "rebellion" against an online-only curriculum marked a final stage at the Academy for Recording Arts, a school that first became known for giving troubled students access to an on-campus recording studio. (more...)
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