The Media Adcademy is a small school built around journalism as an academic discipline and career area. We emphasize academic rigor, greater math and science content, cross curricular activities, and writing for a larger audience as a means to reinforce language arts skills. We seek to retain at-risk youth and expose all students to a career area that is actively seeking larger numbers of people of color, especially if they are bilingual. Our language arts curriculum is bilingual in English and Spanish. Students publish a newspaper and magazine, produce radio and television programming, and build web sites. These activities maxamize heterogeneous groupings that allow all students to participate and learn. The following are our goals:
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Upon graduation 90% of the entering freshmen class will perform at or above grade level on the SAT9 test.
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Upon graduation 90% of the entering freshmen class will meet the requirement to enter the University of California.
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Upon graduation 90% of the entering freshmen class will be conversationally functional in Spanish.
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Upon graduation 90% of the entering freshmen wil have a thorough undestanding of media and be proficient in print, TV, radio broadcasting and web design.
- Upon graduation 90% of the entering freshmen class will be procient in Microsoft Office aand desktpop publishming applications.