Helene-Lange-School (Wiesbaden)

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Helene-Lange-School is located in Wiesbaden, Germany.

The Helene-Lange-School is a comprehensive school in Wiesbaden, Germany. The school received much media coverage for its pedagogic methods. While proponents of comprehensive schools believe it is one of Germany's best schools, [1] opponents believe it is just a run-of-the-mill-school that serves privileged children who would do just as well attending any other kind of school. [2]

Wiesbaden Place in Hesse, Germany

Wiesbaden is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse. As of January 2018, it had 289,544 inhabitants, plus approximately 19,000 United States citizens. The Wiesbaden urban area is home to approx. 560,000 people.

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History

In 1847, the school was founded in Wiesbaden as Höhere Töchterschule. In 1955 the school was named after Helene Lange. At this time it was an all-girls school. In 1971 boys were admitted to the school. In 1986 it was converted into a comprehensive and Enja Riegel became headmistress of the school. In 1987 the school became a member of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project. In 2009 it became a Club-of-Rome-School.

Helene Lange German feminist

Helene Lange was a pedagogue and feminist. She is a symbolic figure of the international and German civil rights feminist movement. In the years from 1919 to 1921 she was a member of the Hamburg Parliament. In 1928 she was honoured with the Grand Prussian State Medal "For Services to the State".

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris. Its declared purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration in education, sciences, and culture in order to increase universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and human rights along with fundamental freedom proclaimed in the United Nations Charter. It is the successor of the League of Nations' International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation.

Students

The school serves mainly upper-middle-class children. [3] While 42% of all children visiting Wiesbaden schools have at least one parent born abroad, less than 10% of the Helene-Lange students do. Enja Riegel said she would love the Helene-Lange-School to become more diverse, but that minority youngsters simply did not apply for the school. [4]

Programme for International Student Assessment

In 2002 the Helene-Lange-students participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), doing well. Breaking the rule that PISA must not be used for school-level evaluation (for which it is methodologically not suited), the media were informed and the Helene-Lange-School was announced Germany's best school. Later it was revealed that while the students really did well, the school was outperformed by most Gymnasien (prep schools) in the south. [5]

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<i>Gymnasium</i> (Germany) secondary school

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References

  1. ↑ Enja Riegel: "Schule kann gelingen! Wie unsere Kinder wirklich fürs Leben lernen". 2004. Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag
  2. ↑ Josef Kraus: "Schulische Vielfalt statt integrierte Einfalt – Warum ein differenziertes Schulwesen überlegen ist". VCL-Bundestagung 2006
  3. ↑ Olaf Köller und Ulrich Trautwein: "Schulqualität und Schülerleistung: Evaluationsstudie über innovative Schulentwicklung an fünf hessischen Gesamtschulen". 2003. Weinheim und München: Juventa; p. 67
  4. ↑ Wiesbadener Kurier vom 21.08.2007: "Können nicht alle aufnehmen - Wissenschaftler wirft Gesamtschulen "institutionelle Diskriminierung" vor
  5. ↑ Josef Kraus: "Informationen und Anmerkungen zu den PISA-Ergebnissen der Laborschule Bielefeld und der Helene-Lange-Schule Wiesbaden". 10. December 2002 Deutscher Lehrerverband (DL) - Aktuell

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