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John Dewey High School (JDHS) is a public high school in Gravesend, Brooklyn, New York City. It was founded and based on the educational principles of John Dewey. The school, under the supervision of the New York City Department of Education, was named a New American High School in 2000.
The school opened on September 8, 1969, with 1,130 freshmen and sophomores.[3] It grew in the next two academic years to include juniors and seniors. There currently are over 2,000 students. It counts among its alumni producer and director Larry Charles, filmmaker Spike Lee, Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, radio personality David Brody, photographer Gregory Crewdson, WWE wrestler Jayson Paul (aka JTG), scientist Robert Sapolsky, astrologer-journalist Eric Francis, news correspondent Ray Suarez, and film actress Michelle Ye.
John Dewey High School was also the first "educational-option" school in New York City, in which applicants were admitted through academic groups based on their citywide test scores: high, middle, and low-achieving. Dewey selected students from each of the three groups. Other schools in the city, such as Edward R. Murrow High School, Murry Bergtraum High School and Norman Thomas High School have since opened, following Dewey's "ed-op" system of admissions.[4]
John Dewey High School used to have an innovative educational model designed to mirror that of a college experience. It has since become more of a traditional school, while still offering specialized electives and CTE programs within six academies/small learning communities: Arts, Business & Hospitality, Law, Pre-Med, STEM, and Teaching & Learning.
Each academic year was split into four cycles. In order to graduate, students had to pass a certain number of classes in each department. For example, each student needed to take 16 cycles of English: 8 literature classes, 4 writing classes, 2 communication classes, and 2 electives. For Social Studies, each student had to take 16 cycles of classes. Students needed 8 global history courses, 4 American history, 2 economic classes, and 2 government classes. Mathematics required 12 cycles, and each student needed to complete Math A. The Science Department required students to take 12 cycles of classes. The foreign language options still offered today are Spanish and Chinese. When a student chose a preferred language, the course had to be taken for either 4 or 12 cycles.
Art and music were important in the Dewey curriculum, a student was able to take photography, music, or film classes. Each student had to take 2 cycles of each. As in all high schools in New York City, Dewey offers health education and physical education. Each student needed to take 14 cycles of physical education and 2 cycles of health, totaling 16 cycles. There were, and still are, many electives and extra curricular activities, such as dance, business education, technology, culinary, and health careers and occupations. There was also a COOP program for senior students. Dewey was once credited for being a college-like high school because classes were not restricted by the students' year, and for its campus.
John Dewey High School offers over 17 Advanced Placement courses, one of the highest for New York City public high schools. These include courses in
John Dewey High School housed the first Academy of Finance, which was started by Sandy Weill in 1982. The Academy of Finance prepared students for post-secondary education and careers through a theme-based, contextualized curriculum approach.
The Academy of Finance introduced high school students to the broad career opportunities of the financial services industry. One of three member programs of the National Academy Foundation, it operated as a small learning community and is now located in more than 275 high schools nationwide.
Each student was allowed to apply for the Academy of Finance. During the sophomore year, a student who was interested in joining submitted an application and waited for an interview with the Academy coordinator. The Academy of Finance was only available to juniors and seniors who have applied during their sophomore year.
This program is no longer available.
John Dewey High School is home to the first Council For Unity, a national non-profit organization founded in 1975 Robert DeSena, who was a Dewey teacher at that time. Its mission is to establish racial harmony, respect, peace, and an end to violence in schools and the surrounding community.
The Council for Unity network currently is at more than sixty schools and community centers in New York City, Long Island, Texas, and California. There is a college chapter at the University of Vermont, and an international chapter in Balti, Moldova.
Formerly known as ARISTA, the scholastic honor society is served through its National Honor Society chapter. Applicants must have achieved an overall scholastic average of 90 or above. The student must also have a record of service performed each cycle (term) in a school facility. In the early decades of its operation, Dewey had no letter or number grades, and there was no school-wide academic honor society.
From 2015–2016, there was a grade fixing scandal in which students were passed along easily to boost graduation rates.[5] It was part of a credit recovery program to avoid school closure.[6]
In 2017, there was also a threat made by a teen of a mass shooting of the school on Facebook. The comment was reported and he was taken into custody afterwards.[7]
One of the many innovative features that existed in Dewey were the learning centers, which were commonly called "resource centers." These are located centrally between five or six classrooms, and used to be staffed by a teacher and a paraprofessional. Each major department had one — English & Literature, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Foreign Language, Music, Art and the Universal Resource Center. For each band (class period), subject teachers who were designated resource centers were there to facilitate students in academics. Students who were free would go to resource centers for assistance in homework, projects, or independent study, or to socialize with others. These "resource centers" have since been underutilized and are not used for the same purpose.
Unlike the majority of New York City public schools, Dewey does not share its campus with any other school. The campus includes the main building, a statue as well as stone plaques to honor alumni. The school has a football, soccer, lacrosse, and softball field which is utilized in various ways. The school also has an outdoor tennis field and two parking lots.
The library has a collections of more than 30,000 books, magazines, and about 12 computers for student, parent, and faculty use.
生徒たちは、教師、仲間、友人たちと協力しながら、様々な施設を利用して学習します。これにより、生徒たちは個々の興味関心を満たすことができ、同時に人生における成長のための確固たる基盤を築くことができます。
ほとんどの教室には、2台から40台のコンピュータまたはノートパソコンが設置されています。また、教室にはスマートボード、プロメシアンボード、エルモプロジェクターも備えられています。
2024年5月30日、[ 8 ]学校は2026-2027年度に553人の中学生を収容する別館の建設を開始しました。[ 9 ]別館には20の教室、美術室と音楽室、2つの理科実験室、体育館、運動室、図書館が含まれます。[ 10 ]建物は3階建てで、本校舎の裏に位置します。[ 11 ] 2026年9月に開校予定です。[ 12 ]
学生団体は、クラブの組織運営や資金調達を支援しています。ジョン・デューイ高校には、アニメ、アジア文化、アートインク、キリスト教文化、陶芸、クラシックロック、チェス、ダンス、多様性、ファッションデザイン、金融、ガーデニングクラブ、ビデオゲームクラブ、映画クラブ、キークラブ、ヘブライ文化、受賞歴のあるロボットチーム、数学、海洋科学、イスラム文化、モデル、模擬議会、SF、ゲイ・ストレート・アライアンス、サッカー、ソフトボールなどのクラブがあります。毎年新しいクラブも設立されています。
キャンパスや学校全体では、クラブラッシュ、インターナショナルナイト、カントリーフェア（現在は「デューイ・スピリット・デー」として、ゲーム、風船、似顔絵、音楽、食べ物、スポーツなどのアクティビティが学校全体で開催されます）、スピリットウィーク、献血キャンペーン（16歳以上の生徒は、必要としている人々に献血することができます）など、毎年恒例のイベントが開催されています。
2016年から2017年の学年度中、ジョン・デューイ高校の生徒たちは、ニューヨーク市の公立高校限定の、生徒主導による毎年恒例のミュージカル公演「SING!」に参加した。
デューイ高校のロボットチームは、全米ランキング入りを果たし、数々の賞を受賞しているチーム333（通称メガロドンズ）で、様々な全国大会や地域大会に出場しています。同チームは、ロボットチームを持つ学校が集まる国際的な大会「FIRST Robotics 」にも積極的に参加しています。また、ニューヨーク・デイリーニュースをはじめとする地元の新聞にも多数取り上げられています。
彼らの努力の結果、国内トップクラスの高校や、ブルックリン・テックやスタウベサント高校などニューヨーク市の専門高校のいくつかに勝利を収めた。彼らの功績により、前ニューヨーク市教育長のデニス・ウォルコットや宇宙飛行士のグレゴリー・オルセンが訪問した。[ 13 ]また、チームはブルックリン・サイクロンズの開幕投球にも参加した。[ 14 ]
このチームは当初、放課後の小さなクラブとして始まり、徐々に独自の授業とカリキュラムを持つ選抜制のプログラムへと発展し、現在では50名以上のメンバーが学校内の工業技術工房で授業時間中および放課後に活動している。
デューイ高校には30年以上もの間、大学代表のスポーツチームがなかった。学校間のスポーツ競技がないのは、競争や勝敗を重視しず、達成そのものを奨励するという教育方針に基づいていたためである。しかし、同校には校内スポーツプログラムがあり、生徒はレクリエーションとして様々なスポーツを楽しむことができる。
しかし、2011～2012年度から、学校は競技に対する姿勢を変え、多数決で賛成された他の公立高校との競技スポーツが始まった。最初は男子サッカー、女子サッカー、女子バスケットボール、クロスカントリー、チアリーディングから始まった。すべてのスポーツのチーム名は「デューイ・ドラゴンズ」である。その後、ラクロス、男子ソフトボール、女子ソフトボール、男子テニス、女子テニス、女子バレーボールへとチーム数を拡大した。
1999年、ジョン・デューイ高校は、教室にテクノロジーを取り入れた功績により、全米で10校しかない第10回ビジネスウィーク教育革新賞を受賞した。賞と1,500ドルの助成金は、サンフランシスコで開催されたビジネスウィークの年次会議で授与された。[ 16 ]
2000年、ジョン・デューイ高校は、高いレベルの成功を収めた全国の学校の模範となる学校として、「ニュー・アメリカン・ハイスクール」に選ばれ、ホワイトハウスで全国的に紹介された。
2003年、ジョン・デューイ高校は、当時の教育長ジョエル・L・クラインが市全体の統一カリキュラムから免除した209校の優秀な学校の一つに選ばれた。[ 17 ]
In 2007, John Dewey High School was named one of America's Top 500 High Schools by U.S. News & World Report.
In 2008 and 2009, Newsweek named John Dewey High School one of America's Top 6% of high schools in its rankings, citing "how hard staffs work to challenge students with Advanced Placement college-level courses and tests."
In 2010, John Dewey High School's short film produced by the Film Class titled "A Block From Home" which was about an innocent victim who was caught in cross fire gun violence nearby Sheepshead Bay High School and takes on the progressive healing and the will to forge ahead. It was a part of Tribeca Film Festival in the Our City My Story event.[18][19]
In 2013, U.S. News & World Report awarded John Dewey High School a silver medal for ranking as one of America's Top High Schools, and for ranking #127 in New York State.[20]
In 2015, Niche named John Dewey High School as the fifth best high school in Brooklyn, the second best high school in the New York City Department of Education's District 21, top 100 most diverse schools in New York State, and was given an "Overall Niche Grade" of a B+, the only school in the district to achieve this grade.[21]
In 2016, Niche gave John Dewey High School an "Overall Niche Grade" of an A−.[22]
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