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Jefferson High School is a public high school in central Portland, Oregon, USA, administered by Portland Public Schools. It is the largest high school in the state by student number with 2,700 students. Image File history File links Jeffersonhighschoolportlandoregon. ...
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For the school district in Portland, Maine, see Portland Public Schools, Maine. ...
Reflecting its urban location, the school's demographic distribution of the students (66% black, 13% white) is almost a mirror image of the statistics for the state (80% white, 3% black).
The school hosts a color television studio and offers a television curriculum to magnet students.
Jefferson High School has consistently had the lowest test scores in the state of Oregon. In 1997, in an attempt to improve the quality of education students received and thus raise test scores, Jefferson High School undertood a controversial "reconstituting" plan wherein all staff was fired and the school was rebuilt from scratch. [1] Test scores, however, remained low, and many were disappointed at the loss of many dedicated teachers with decades of experience of working at Jefferson High School. Among the teachers lost were Linda Christensen, who was a celebrated member of the local community. Christensen recently published Reading, Writing, and Rising Up, which is largely about her years of teaching at Jefferson High School. [2] Official language(s) None Capital Salem Largest city Portland Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 9th 255,026 km² 420 km 580 km 2. ...
1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Jefferson High School's dance program In the mid-1970s, in an attempt to integrate the student body, Jefferson High School introduced the magnet arts program and the dance program, which allowed for students from other districts to be bused into the school to take part in the arts and dance programs. Rather than integrating the student body to any profound degree, what this led to was many white students from other districts being bused in for the programs and having nothing to do with the rest of the school. In addition, though Jefferson High School was predominantly a black high school, the percentage of black students enrolled in the dance and other arts programs remained relatively low.
Jefferson High School became well known in the local community for its magnet arts dance program, which was founded in the late 1970s by Mary Vinton Folberg, sister of Will Vinton (creator of Claymation). Folberg modelled the Jefferson Dance Department after the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Mary Vinton Folberg is a teacher and former dancer. ...
Will Vinton (born 1948) is a director and producer of animated films. ...
The term Claymation is a registered trademark created by Will Vinton Studios to describe their clay animated movies; the more generic term is clay animation, but the portmanteau claymation has entered the English language as a genericized trademark. ...
The Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts is located near the Juilliard School in the Lincoln Center district of Manhattan, on Amsterdam Avenue between 65th Street and 64th Street. ...
In the early 1980s, Folberg founded the student dance company The Jefferson Dancers. Many internationally recognized artists and choreographers worked with The Jefferson Dancers. The company performed in many local venues, and on a few occasions toured internationally. The Jefferson Dancers program cover depicting Lisa Grant and Tony Loupé performing in Gretchen Kneiers Beneath the Gathering Clouds. ...
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