PS 274, Kosciusko School, Bushwick, Brooklyn, District 32

Visit 1: April 29, 2009
Visit 2: May 5, 2009

To explore whether current research on gender and education was applicable to students at PS 274 and to find out whether classes separated by gender would make a difference in students’ participation in reading and writing, the principal of PS 274 decided to conduct the Behind the Book program in a class that was separated into two sections by gender.  In separate sections, boys and girls used literature as a lens to explore gender bias in their own personal experiences. Both sections worked with poet Tony Medina, using his books I to I: Bob Marley and Love to Langston.  Students examined characterization and gender roles in the poems, wrote their own, and also went on a field trip to Random House publishing.

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