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Bank Street College of Education is a private, nonprofit educational institution in Manhattan, New York City. It includes the Bank Street Graduate School of Education, the Bank Street School for Children, and other programs.

History
Bank Street College of Education was founded in 1916 by Lucy Sprague Mitchell as the Bureau of Educational Experiments (BEE). In 1930 the BEE moved in to 69 Bank Street in Manhattan, and later, in 1950, the name was changed to the Bank Street College of Education. Influenced by the teachings of John Dewey, Mitchell sought to create a group of thinkers from different fields to study child development and to advocate for fundamental educational reform. In 1971, in need of more space, Bank Street College of Education moved to a newly constructed building at West 112th Street.

The institution developed the developmental-interaction approach to childhood education, also known as the "Bank Street approach," which emphasizes that the development of students happens at different rates and involves interaction with other people, the material world, and thoughts and ideas. The school for children started as a "laboratory school" for finding new ways of educating students who were underperforming in other schools and eventually served as a model for the Head Start program when it started in 1965.

Campus
Bank Street College of Education operates out of multiple buildings in Manhattan, primarily in the Morningside Heights neighborhood.


 * Main Campus, 610 West 112th Street: 10-story building that houses the School for Children and the Graduate School of Education
 * North Campus, 475 Riverside Drive (The Interchurch Center), Suite 1400: Administrative offices and institutes, including the Bank Street Education Center and the National Center for Children in Poverty.
 * Bank Street Bookstore, 2780 Broadway (at West 107th Street): Retail storefront and event space, operated by Bank Street College of Education
 * Bank Street Head Start, 535 East 5th Street: Home of Bank Street College of Education's Head Start program in the East Village.

Organization and administration
Bank Street College of Education includes the Bank Street School of Education, the Bank Street School for Children, the Bank Street Family Center, Bank Street Head Start, Bank Street Bookstore, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and other programs. It is independently governed by a 37-member board of trustees.

Academics
Bank Street Graduate School of Education grants master's degrees and doctorates. Enrollment as of 2018 was 549 students.

The Bank Street Graduate School of Education is accredited by the Regents Accreditation of Teacher Education (RATE) and by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Bank Street has been continuously accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 1960. It holds membership in the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of the State of New York, the Council of Higher Education Institutions in New York City, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and the American Council on Education. Bank Street is also nationally accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), with the exception of individual education courses offered by the college to educators for professional development and relicensure. Bank Street's NCATE accreditation allows the college to receive national recognition from several Specialty Professional Associations (SPAs), including the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI), the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC), the Educational Leadership Constituent Council (ELCC), the International Literacy Association (ILA), and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

Graduate school alumni



 * Bill Ayers, elementary education theorist and retired Distinguished Professor, College of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago
 * Inez Barron, educator and New York City Council member
 * Lee Bennett Hopkins, educator, poet, author, and anthologist
 * Claudine K. Brown, director at the Smithsonian Institution, museum educator, artist
 * Margaret Wise Brown, author of classic children's books such as Goodnight Moon
 * Ruth Cohn, psychotherapist, educator, and poet
 * Rosina Fernhoff, Obie Award-winning theater actress
 * Brigid Globensky, director of education at the Milwaukee Art Museum
 * Robie Harris, award-winning children's book author
 * Verna Hart, expressionist painter
 * Trudie Lamb-Richmond, Schaghticoke Tribal Nation member and educator
 * Anne Mitchell, early childhood education consultant and co-founder of the Alliance on Early Childhood Finance
 * Shael Polakow-Suransky, current president and former Chief Academic Officer of the New York City Education Department
 * Miriam Roth, Israeli writer and scholar of children's books, kindergarten teacher, and educator
 * Julie Stevens, actress and acting coach
 * Dorothy Stoneman, founder and president of YouthBuild USA
 * Ellen Tarry, the first African-American picture book author
 * Edith Thacher Hurd, children's book writer with more than 70 books to her credit as well as a few collaborations with Margaret Wise Brown
 * Lucy Wainwright Roche, singer-songwriter
 * Sara Wilford, philanthropist and granddaughter of Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * Valerie Wilson Wesley, author and former executive editor of Essence Magazine
 * Diane Wolkstein, folklorist and a former New York City official storyteller
 * Adam Gidwitz, author

School for Children
The Bank Street School for Children is an independent, co-educational school in New York City for students in nursery through 8th grade. Through an approach that emphasizes learning by doing, the School for Children is a working model of the Bank Street Graduate School of Education's approach to teaching and learning. The Bank Street School for Children is accredited by the New York State Association of Independent Schools and is a member of the National Association of Independent Schools.

School structure
The school enrolls 451 students (as of 2019) from nursery through 8th grade and is divided into a lower school (nursery–kindergarten), a middle school (grades 1–4), and an upper school (grades 5–8). The student-teacher ratio is 7:1. The head of school is Jed Lippard.

Admissions
The admission process includes an application along with interviews, assessments, and/or playdates. Tuition ranges from $29,400 to $52,824, and the school offers need-based financial aid. The school offers need-based financial aid.

School for Children alumni

 * Liz Garbus, filmmaker and director of such works as What Happened, Miss Simone?
 * D.T. Max, New York Times bestselling author of Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
 * Miri Navasky, PBS Frontline producer and award-winning documentary filmmaker; daughter of The Nation publisher emeritus Victor Saul Navasky
 * Angelica Page, actress, director, producer and screenwriter
 * Ally Sheedy, actress and children's book author

Bank Street Head Start
Bank Street Head Start is a free preschool program for children ages 3 to 5 years old offering educational, nutritional, mental health, and social services to 68 families each year. The program, which began in 1964 shortly after the Civil Rights Act was passed, is available to families based on income and residency.

Center for Children's Literature
Bank Street's Center for Children's Literature seeks to recognize and provide access to high quality literature for children of all ages. Its components include The Irma Simonton Black and James H. Black Award for Excellence in Children's Literature. Named for author and educator Irma Simonton Black, an alumna of the Bureau of Educational Experiments and the head of Bank Street's Division of Publications and Communications until her death in 1972, the Irma Black Award is given annually to an outstanding children's book whose quality is a product both of its exemplary text and illustrations. Children in classrooms throughout the United States are asked to decide the winner through discussion and voting. The winning book receives a gold seal, while three other books are selected as honorable mentions and receive silver seals. Both seals were designed by children's book author Maurice Sendak. The award is then presented at a breakfast ceremony held in New York City each May and attended by authors, illustrators, publishers, teachers, librarians, and alumni and friends of Bank Street College.

Bank Street Bookstore
The Bank Street Bookstore, which sells children's books and educational toys and games, is owned by the Bank Street College of Education. The bookstore operates a brick-and-mortar location at the corner of Broadway and West 107th Street in New York and sells books online through its website. The bookstore hosts readings, daily story time, and celebrity events, with past guests including Stephen Colbert, Julianne Moore, and author Jeff Kinney.

The bookstore began in the lobby of Bank Street College in 1970. From 1994 through 2014, it was located on West 112th Street in New York, until operating losses and a ten-year decline in revenue forced the Bank Street Book Store to relocate to a new, smaller location on West 107th Street. Its reopening ceremony in March 2015 featured appearances from Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and notable authors Robie Harris and Isabel Gillies, among others.