The Young Women’s Leadership Foundation has been
featured in the press since the inception of our first single-sex
school in 1996. A list of relevant articles is provided below:
Ann Tisch, Founder
| “100 Women who shape our city”, The
New York Daily News, April 24, 2004, by Michele Ingrassia.
“Making the Grade”, Avenue Magazine,
July/August 2003, by Jill Brooke.
“Power of One”, O Magazine, October
2001, by Joe Dolce.
http://www.oprah.com/uyl/omag/uyl_omag_200110_tisch.jhtml
“Call Her an Advocate, Not an Aristocrat”,
The New York Times, Public Lives section, December
1, 1999, by Anemona Hartocollis.
“3 Women in the Men’s Club Wield Money
and Influence”, The New York Times, November
17, 1999, by Karen Stabiner.
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Young Women’s Leadership Schools
Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem
"City's Pioneering Single-Sex Public School Turns 10", by Gabrielle Birkner, New York Sun, September 13, 2006. http://www.nysun.com/article/39590
Juntos o Seperados", CNN Espanol, January 4, 2007
http://noticias.telemundo.yahoo.com/video
Girl power in education”, Newsday, October 2, 2006, Sheryl McCarthy.
“You go girls”, Daily News, September 14, 2006 – Editorial.
“City’s Pioneering Single-Sex Public School Turns 10”, The New York Sun, September 13, 2006 by Gabrielle Birkner.
“Same-sex schools rule?”, Daily News, January 1, 2006, Erin Einhorn.
“Can separate Ever Be Equal? For Girls, Answer
Isn’t Simple”, Los Angeles Times,
March 14, 2004, by Karen Stabiner.
“Against the odds: Graduating kids on time”,
National Public Radio, November 12, 2003. Source:
Insideschools.org by Clara Hemphill.
“Education Trust Launches High Performing Schools”,
U.S. Newswire, November 5, 2003.
”Freedom of Choice”, Essence.
August 2003, by Mary Lord.
“Thirteen”, National Public Radio Commentary,
by Emily Wylie, a middle school teacher at The Young
Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem, June
6, 2003.
“Critics are too hasty: All-girls schools may
help”, USA Today Editorial, May 10, 2002.
“Going First Class – Oprah Speaks to grads
at city’s all-girls school”, Newsday,
June 27, 2001 by Nick Chiles.
“Tears of Joy at Graduation for Girls Only”,
The New York Times, June 27, 2001, by Clyde
Haberman.
“Making the grade & point”, The
New York Daily News, June 8, 2001, by Karen Hunter.
“First Graduates at a Haven for Girls”,
The New York Times, June 6, 2001, by Anemona
Hartocollis.
“No boys? No problem, says all-girls school”,
The Christian Science Monitor,
February 9,
1999, by Kristina Lanier.
“Test scores are a sign of all-girl power”,
The New York Post, March 8, 1998 by Maria Alvarez.
“Just Girls, and That’s Fine With Them”,
The New York Times, February 1, 1997, by Jacques
Steinberg.
“New York Girls are happy with a school of their
own”, The Chicago Tribune, September
6, 1988, by Monica C. Fountain.
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CollegeBound
"Getting In" - Jon Roure, Director of CollegeBound interviewed with students on local NPR station, WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show (January 12, 2007).
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/2007/01/12
"Girls Only at New York School", CBS News, November 24, 2006
“It’s Never too soon to start preparing
for the SAT”, Viva New York, March 2003,
by Chris Farmer, CollegeBound counselor at The
Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem.
“Guidance Counselor Gap”, The Wall
Street Journal, July 16, 2002, by Barbara Martinez.
“College is Better Than No College, Period. You’ll
Thank Me Later”, The Wall Street Journal,
April 1, 1999, by Ron Suskind.
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Young Women's Leadership School, Bronx Campus
“An Interview with Arnette Crocker, Principal, Young Women's Leadership School”, Education Update , October, 2004.
Education Week , October 20, 2004.
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Young Women’s Leadership Charter School of Chicago
"It’s a girl thing—and it’s
working” The Chicago Tribune, June 5,
2004, by Ana Beatriz Cholo.
“Oprah visits local charter school to get tips
for her S. African academy”, Chicago Sun-Times,
November 15, 2003, by Rosalind Rossi.
“Students work up appetite for success”,
Chicago Tribune, February 23, 2003, by Judy
Hevrdejs.
“All-girls Chicago public school is one of a
kind”, Chicago Sun-Times, April 28, 2002
by Kate N. Grossman.
“Girls Rule”, Chicago Tribune Magazine,
October 1, 2000, by Lauren Cohen.
“In Chicago, Girls Get a Public School of Their
Own”, The New York Times, August 26,
2000.
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The Young Women's Leadership School at Rhodes (Philadelphia)
The Young Women's Leadership School, Queens (Jamaica)
The Young Women's Leadership School, Astoria
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