Talk:Albany Free School/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) 18:05, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

I'll get to this shortly.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 18:05, 15 October 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66, checking back czar 04:26, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

• No DABs
• External links good.
• Can you get a photo?
• The school started a high school in 2006 and became the separate Harriet Tubman Democratic High School, which enrolls about 20 students and offers both self-directed and traditional classes Awkward, rephrase.
• Link alumni, children with special needs
• The Albany Free School is one of the few free schools to persist from the hundreds once open in the free school movement of the 1960s and 70s. Already used in the lede, rephrase.
• The school's teacher–student relationships are close and adults can follow-up with students who are not pursuing their plan. Adults? Do you mean teachers or parents? Not sure that these two clauses belong together.
• Younger teachers have expressed more of an interest in racial and social justice, and have tried to increase the school's diversity In what ways and to what effect? This might be better served as the lede sentence of the next para.
  • The first question still needs to be answered.
    • I thought the second clause of the sentence answered the question. That's as much as the source said. czar 01:22, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
      • I'd prefer a fuller explanation, but if that's all that's available...--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:52, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
• The teachers report high interest in their jobs. This seems rather disconnected from the rest of the para.
• The school's composition was thus: one half from Albany's inner-city South End (mostly black and Latino, with an burgeoning immigrant population), one fourth from uptown neighborhoods, and one fourth from the suburbs. Leue recalled having "limited appeal to upwardly mobile families", who thought the school would limit their children's chances to join a suitable income bracket.[2] She found that low-income, black families were the most skeptical about the school's usefulness. The school also provides inexpensive (or free) preschool and daycare for young children, operates a car collective (wherein a dozen people share a minivan), and provides low-interest loans through a community credit system. Some school members have "half-jokingly" expressed "a divide between the young anarchists and the old liberals". This whole para needs to be reworked as you're covering a couple of unrelated points, at least one of which could be pulled out into its own para. And others could possibly be moved into the preceding para.
  • Better.
• Albany Free School graduates are admitted to college based on their essays and interview presence as opposed to standardized test scores.[8] Albany Free School alumni include community college students, development director at an alternative education organization, and an undersecretary for the Governor of New York Rephrase the second sentence to reduce the repetition and eliminate out the community college bit as that properly belongs in the first sentence, although it strikes me as redundant to that sentence.
  • Why is it worth noting that some alumni continued on to community college when you say as much in the last sentence of the para? I'd move this sentence to the end of the para, deleting mention of community college.
    • The High School is a separate institution, so I thought it was worth keeping their alumni notes separate (not all of one are the other). I implemented your suggestion anyway. czar 01:22, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
• Albany Free School stands out as an "anomaly" and model for American free schools, which tend to serve upper-middle class children.[10] The Albany Free School inspired the program of the Brooklyn Free School More repetition.
• In 2006, the City School District of Albany felt that it fit all students' needs and offered more learning opportunities than the Albany Free School, such as social services, an elementary school "dual language enrichment program", and the International Baccalaureate.[5] Mike Guidice, an Albany Free School teacher, felt that the school's graduates were able to empathize and emotionally interact in ways that undermine the fear and mistrust that descend from authority and leads to "laws, judges, courts, prisons". So what? Guidice's statement should be set up as a contrast to the public school district's assertion.
• Be consistent about using title case in the title of your references.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:11, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66, thanks for the review. I think I got everything that needed addressing, if you'll take a look. As for the photo, I contacted the school months ago but haven't heard back. czar 20:32, 25 October 2015 (UTC)

A couple of things remain to be dealt with, but most of your changes were just fine.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 00:08, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66, responses above czar 01:22, 26 October 2015 (UTC)