词条 | James Madison High School (Brooklyn) |
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| name = James Madison High School | image = Madison High Bklyn jeh.jpg | established = 1925 | type = Public high school | principal = Jodie Cohen | enrollment = 3,456 | grades = 9 to 12 | address = 3787 Bedford Avenue | city = Brooklyn | state = New York | country = USA | mascot = Knight | colors = Black and Gold {{color box|black}} {{color box|gold}} | newspaper = The Moment | website = {{URL|madisonhs.org}} |coordinates = {{coord|40.61|-73.9477|display=inline,title}} }} James Madison High School is a public high school in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It serves students in grades 9 through 12, and is in Region 6 of the New York City Department of Education. Established in 1925, James Madison High School has graduated seven Nobel Prize winners, famous musicians, authors, and athletes. Two sitting U.S. Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), are graduates, as is former Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN). United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is also a graduate. AcademicsJames Madison High School is organized in accordance with the house system. There are eight houses, each having a Teacher Coordinator, a Guidance Counselor, and an Assistant Principal assigned to supervise and assist students. Special programs{{advert|date=February 2017}}Most students who apply to James Madison High School have the opportunity to apply to a specific "House". These include:
ClassesAP classesThere are many Advanced Placement classes offered at James Madison High School. These include: {{Div col}}AP Chemistry AP Biology AP Environmental Science AP Psychology AP Microeconomics AP Macroeconomics AP US Government and Politics AP Calculus AB AP Calculus BC AP Statistics AP Spanish Language AP Spanish Literature AP English Language and Composition AP English Literature AP European History AP American History AP Computer Science AP World History AP Human Geography AP Chinese Language and Culture{{Div col end}} Honor/elective classesAlong with the AP classes, Madison offers a wide number of honor/elective classes. Some of these include: {{Div col}}Business Law Pre-Calculus Honors European History Honors Physics Honors Biology Honors Chemistry Honors Algebra 2/Trignometry Honors World History Honors Anatomy and Physiology Honors Advanced Orchestra Advanced Guitar West African Drumming Life Guarding Forensics Advanced Spanish Russian Literature History Through Film Mock Trial Constitutional Law Criminal Law Madison also offers a wide number of music/art electives, which students are allowed and encouraged to take. Main campusJames Madison High School is a six-floor red brick building with many rooms.
ClubsJames Madison High School has a number of clubs which are listed here in alphabetical order: {{div col|colwidth=22em}}
Mock TrialIn May 2010, the James Madison High School Mock Trial team became the New York State Champions, while representing their region of New York City in Albany. The team competed against about 600 schools for first place. It was Madison's second time appearing in Albany after 5 years, and their first time winning. It was also the first time any New York City public school had ever won the State championship. The team accomplished their victory with the help of attorneys from Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, who've always had a long-standing solid relationship with James Madison High School. SportsMadison also offers a wide range of Boys And Girls PSAL Varsity and Junior Varsity Sports: Football, Soccer, Basketball, Track and field, Wrestling, Baseball, Softball, Tennis, Volleyball, Swimming, Cross Country, Handball, and Lacrosse. The James Madison Baseball Team is among the most successful in the school ranked fourth in the New York City PSAL and sixth including Catholic High Schools. They have been in the final four three years in a row. In 2008, the team made it to the finals but fell short. The program has put a lot of their players into college baseball and three professional players Frank Torre, Cal Abrams, Harry Eisenstat.Went undefeated in 1954 capturing the PSAL city championship team leaders (Mike Weltman) and Jackie Kahn) who went on to become a highly decorated Homicide Detective with the Miami-Dade PD Another very successful team is the Madison Wrestling Team. (http://madisongoldenknightswrestling.com/) In addition to having many NYC Mayors Cup and City Champions, the team has posted a winning record and made the playoffs 10 out of the last 12 seasons, with an eight-year streak of making it past the first round of the PSAL Team Championships. The team was ranked #8 overall (public, Catholic and private schools combined) by MSG Varsity this past season. James Madison High School is home to a very successful Swim Team. It has won countless competitions. It is currently coached by Mr.Davis who is retired but continues to train the swim team for each winter swimming season. He was retired in 2009. Mr.Tigre is the current swimming teacher at James Madison High School and has been for 2 years now. This is one of Madison's most prosperous teams. Full list of teams (as of 2017){{Div col|colwidth=15em}}
Extracurricular activitiesSING!, a musical competition between the grades, has been a Madison tradition for over 50 years. On November 15, 2008, the Senior/Sophomore team lost to the Junior/Freshman team for the first time in 6 years, on the 60th anniversary of SING!. The SING! theme that year was "It's Never Too Late to Change." It is one of Madison's Most popular clubs. There is a new tradition called Brooklyn SINGS, also known as "InterSING", started in 2014. InterSING is a competition between Madison, Midwood, & Murrow High Schools to see who has the best SING performance. The winning team at Madison, Midwood, & Murrow will advance on to InterSING. In 2014-2015, InterSING took place in the Joseph Anzalone Theater in Edward R. Murrow High School in Midwood, Brooklyn. InterSING is a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. Teachers
AlumniDistinguished alumni of James Madison High School include:[1]
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"He was a basketball player - small for that sport, too - when Jeffrey Ishmael, the football coach at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, saw [Devale Ellis] grab a defensive rebound, dribble the length of the court and make an acrobatic layup." 13. ^Gussow, Mel. [https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/25/obituaries/leonard-frey-actor-dies-at-49-was-in-fiddler-and-other-films.html "Leonard Frey, Actor, Dies at 49"], The New York Times, August 25, 1988. "Mr. Frey was born in Brooklyn and attended James Madison High School." 14. ^Grimes, William. [https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/arts/29frye.html "David Frye, Perfectly Clear Nixon Parodist, Dies at 77"], The New York Times, January 29, 2011; accessed June 11, 2013. "David Shapiro was born in Brooklyn and attended James Madison High School there." 15. ^Tebbel, John Robert. " What, Me Gone?", Instant Classics, June 5, 1992; accessed June 11, 2013. "I spoke earlier about the influence he had, and I just thought of one incident. 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[https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/04/sports/sports-of-the-times-he-made-music-of-his-own.html "Sports of The Times; He Made Music of His Own"], The New York Times, March 4, 1999. Accessed June 11, 2013. "In 1939, as the star center of the undefeated city championship James Madison High School team, Fuzzy was named the outstanding schoolboy player in New York City." 23. ^https://www.centralmaine.com/2012/11/27/former-baseball-union-head-miller-dead-at-95/ 24. ^https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Stereotypes-Twentieth-Institute-2014-12-15/dp/B01FJ03KKC 25. ^[https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1995/perl-autobio.html Autobiography of Martin L. Perl], Nobel Prize; accessed June 11, 2013. "I was sixteen when I graduated from James Madison High School in Brooklyn in 1942. My sister, who is now a well known writer in the United States, moved through school even faster - she graduated at fifteen and one-half." 26. ^via New York Post. "Chris Rock Gets Show Based on Childhood", Fox News, June 18, 2005. Accessed June 11, 2013. "Finally, after years of bullying, Rock's parents pulled him out of James Madison HS at 17. 'If we didn't, he was going to get killed,' said his mother, Rose Rock." 27. ^Farrell, Bill. "A NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS The 73rd Daily News Golden Gloves", Daily News (New York), April 28, 2000; accessed June 11, 2013. "Dmitry Salita, 17 Starrett City BC: A two-time Metro champion, this senior at Brooklyn's James Madison H.S. is boxing in his first Golden Gloves." 28. ^About Bernie, Bernie Sanders. Accessed June 11, 2013. "Education: James Madison High School, Brooklyn NY; University of Chicago, B.A. 1964" 29. ^Stein, Ellin.Growing Up With The Bern, Slate, February 4, 2016. Accessed February 11, 2016. 30. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Abruzzo, Shavana. "Judge Judy inducted with elite alums on Madison's wall of fame", New York Post, June 1, 2010; accessed June 11, 2013. "Joining Judge Judy on the 2010 roster are late Brooklyn Dodger Cal Abrams ('42), former US ambassador to the United Nations Herbert Okun ('47), sportswriter Maury Allen ('49), University of Maryland Dental School professor and pain research pioneer Dr. Ronald Dubner ('51), historian and "dean" of presidential experts Dr. Robert Dallek ('52), retired Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court Deborah Tobias Poritz (‘54) and director Joel Zwick (‘58), whose screen and credits include My Fat Greek Wedding, Laverne & Shirley and Broadway's Oklahoma!.... No small wonder when the school’s august alums include educator Stanley H. Kaplan (‘35), former American Federation of Teachers President Sandra Feldman (‘56), radio personality Bruce "Cousin Brucie" Morrow (‘48), opera star Elaine Malbin (‘48), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ President Sidney Ganis (‘57) and Paul L. Krinsky (‘46), who served as the superintendent of the United States Merchant Marine Academy from 1987 to 1993, attaining the rank of rear admiral." 31. ^Zahka, William J. [https://books.google.com/books?ei=Bo23UZOcB8Pf0gHJ8YCABg&id=EiG3AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22james+madison+high+school%22 The Nobel Prize Economics Lectures: A Cross Section of current Thinking], p. 47. Avebury, 1992. {{ISBN|1856280861}}. "At the suggestion of one of his teachers at James Madison High School, Solow began his studies at Harvard College in 1940 on a scholarship." 32. ^https://nypost.com/2005/08/13/bodies-came-from-the-sky-anguished-wtc-heroes-tell-of-haywire-signals-last-farewells/ 33. ^http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/gridiron-benefit-memorialize-9-11-hero-danny-suhr-marine-park-article-1.442494 34. ^https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/20/nyregion/nation-challenged-portraits-grief-victims-those-left-behind-remembrances-love.html 35. ^{{cite news|title=Six Boro Men get Violet Letters|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/52699134/?terms= |newspaper=Brooklyn Eagle|date=7 December 1936|page=19|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = February 22, 2015}} {{Open access}} 36. ^Verba, Sidney.A Life in Political Science Annual Review of Political Science.2011.14:i-xv.
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