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GREAT EXPECTATIONS From Dickens to Plato, school fights mediocrity with high goals; A far cry from Dick and Jane The following works are included on the reading list at Marva Collins Preparatory School of Wisconsin: "The Canterbury Tales" Geoffrey Chaucer "Crime and Punishment" Feodor Dostoevski "The Divine Comedy" Dante Alighieri "The Odyssey" Homer "Twenty-three Tales" Leo Tolstoy "Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte "Five Dialogues" Plato "Bleak House" Charles Dickens "Oedipus the King" Sophocles
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There's a tiny school in Milwaukee's inner city where
first-graders will be studying the same books as college freshmen
this year.
When the Marva Collins Preparatory School of Wisconsin officially
opens its doors in Metcalfe Park Aug. 28, students there will be
asked to forget everything they've ever heard about how difficult it
is for central city minority students to achieve in school.
They'll simply be expected to achieve. Period.
"There is a thirst all over the country for h...
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Famed educator orders Milwaukee school to stop using her name.(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
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; Byline: Sarah Carr MILWAUKEE _ Arguing that the Milwaukee school that holds her name fails to uphold her philosophy, famed educator Marva Collins on Thursday abruptly ordered the Marva Collins Preparatory School of Wisconsin to find its own name. They ceased to follow the methodology we agreed on,
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Famed educator orders Milwaukee school to stop using her name.
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; Byline: Sarah Carr Dec. 3--Arguing that the Milwaukee school that holds her name fails to uphold her philosophy, famed educator Marva Collins on Thursday abruptly ordered the Marva Collins Preparatory School of Wisconsin to find its own name. They ceased to follow the methodology we agreed on,
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Milwaukee Money Manager Starts Grade School.
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