Talk:City Charter High School

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Very good start - this is going to be a B if you avoid the adverts Victuallers 19:01, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

To-do list for City Charter High School: edit · history · watch · refresh
  • Add: Teaching methods
    • Teacher-student continuity
    • Team teaching
    • Staff development
  • Add: School governance
    • CAO/Education managers
    • Position in Pittsburgh Public School District (Who really has control over the school? What role does the school board play in the governance of the charter school? As a charter school, who does it answer to?)
  • Expand: Students (demographics)
    • Profile of first graduating class
  • Expand: Academics
    • Split up by grade
    • Split up clusters
    • Test scores?
  • Expand: Location
    • Demographics of Clark Bldg?
    • More about where the New Clark Building is in relation to other downtown Pittsburgh landmarks. How far is it from the Point? PPG? Alcoa? (bigger, more recognizable names)
  • Other adds
    • Criticisms
    • Comparison schools?
    • EDSYS, Inc. article?
    • Symposium section?
    • Extracurriculars section (drama club, chorus)
    • Future Tenant section?
    • Technology (laptops, Microsoft Certs, Dashboard) (only scratched the surface though)
    • Partners (Funders)
  • Reorganize: "Founders" section (This section should probably be something like Early history. It should include stuff about how the idea for the school came about, what it's trying to accomplish, and who was involved in really putting this together. Don't forget turbulent approval process. Separate Wertheimer/Zinga articles?)
  • Expand: FIRST Robotics
  • Add: Photography (a shot of the Clark Building, a screenshot of the Dashboard, maybe the logo)
  • Rewrite: direct quotes/corp-speak

[edit] Blatant Advertising?

Explain why City Charter High School is like an advertisement. It seems like a very good source of information from a neutral perspective.

And I quote from the article:

self-described as a "21st century school that changes the traditional learning environments for students and teachers. The school model is based on the best educational practices, industry and academic partnerships, organizational innovations and technological advances."

That doesn't sound self-aggrandizing to you?

"self-described" thats how they describe themselves

Very true, but fully 1/3 the article is quotations from marketing material. Even if properly sourced and quoted that threatens NPOV. Take for instance the founder's section. The only material on them provided is from their official EdSys, Inc. biographies, quoted verbatim. They likely wrote those biographies. Even Jim Wales didn't get away with that. When it isn't quoted directly it often has a marketing spin to it. For instance: "Significant focus is put on information technology as a means to prepare students for the outside world." Nobody who is writing neutrally would write that. Certainly there is some balance, not everything is favorable. The result is that one paragraph is neutral, the next a marketing spiel, and back again. A separate, not entirely related issue, is that the article is also relatively disorganized. History isn't filled out enough, categories are misplaced. Suffice it to say that myself (or someone else) needs to sit down and do some serious revamping at some point, but I haven't gotten around to it.

This conversation would be better situated in the article's talk page. I may move it there soon.


What would you suggest then? I very much doubt there would be a plethora of sources for just another high school. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LordArthas (talk • contribs) 06:06, 29 January 2007 (UTC).