Moscow State School 57
Moscow School 57 | |
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7/10 Maliy Znamenskiy per. Moscow 119019 Russia | |
Coordinates | 55°44′55″N 37°36′18″E / 55.748616°N 37.605134°ECoordinates: 55°44′55″N 37°36′18″E / 55.748616°N 37.605134°E |
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Type | Public School |
Established | 1877 |
Principal | Alexandr Tverskoy |
Faculty | 123.3 (on FTE basis)....[1] |
Grades | 1st–11th |
Enrollment | 1,100 (as of 2014–15)[2] |
Website |
sch57 |
Moscow State School 57 (Russian: Пятьдесят седьмая школа) is a public school located in the Khamovniki District of Moscow, Russia. The school was founded in 1877 and is best known for its specialized secondary program in mathematics and its alumni.[3]
History
Founding and School 4 (1877 — 1968)
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In 1877, Karl Masing, a Russian engineer and educator, founded a realschule in Maliy Znamenskiy lane,[4] which soon became one of the most progressive vocational schools in Russia.[5]
After the October Revolution, the realschule was converted into a boarding school with courses in aesthetic arts and renamed to School 4. It became popular with the Soviet establishment, with top government officials sending their children there.[6]
In 1936, the school was transformed again, converting back to a vocational school and acquiring the number 57 in Moscow's educational system.[7]
Math classes and New Campuses (1968 — present)
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In 1968, Nikolay Konstantinov, a leading Russian educator in Mathematics, established specialized Math classes at the school. Konstantinov's teaching methodology still is used in these classes to this day and has been shared with other educational centers.[8] The school started gaining prestige due to the quality of education it provided.
As of 2016, School 57 is a highly selective school with a competitive admission process. The high school offers specializations in humanities, Biology, and Mathematics, as well as a general track. In 2008 — 2013, the school merged with two other schools in different locations of the Khamovniki district of Moscow, satisfying the requirements of recent reforms in educational policy.
Enrollment
The school has a total enrollment of over a thousand students, entering first, eighth and ninth grade.
Admission[9] to elementary school is competitive and based on test results of the students previously enrolled in the school's tuition-based mandatory preschool program.[10] In 2015, the admission committee considered over a thousand applicants for 130 positions. By maintaining good standing the students can guarantee their further education in the school's general track middle and high school. As is the tradition in many Russian schools, incoming students are split into a number of groups of 20–30 which each have their own curricula and teachers.
School 57 has general track classes along with its specialized programs and holds a separate admission process for specialized classes in mathematics, humanities[11] and biology, a joint project[12] of the school and the Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of the Moscow State University.[13] The admission committee considers a few hundred applicants for 20–25 places in each class.[14]
School 57 launches two Math classes each year, with four- and three-year curriculums, each admitting around 20–25 students who have demonstrated the best problem-solving abilities during the application process. The school organizes free preparatory courses that help interested students to develop said abilities. A portfolio that includes prizes from Math competitions can strengthen an application.[3]
Academics
Students in the specialized classes receive extensive training in their areas of expertise, often covering college-level material in their junior and senior years. Graduates of the specialized classes often go on to pursue college degrees in Russia's best universities,[15] including the Higher School of Economics, Moscow State University, and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.[16]
Mathematics Classes
Individual approach lies in the core of the specialized math classes' educational process. Teaching the specialized math classes isn't limited to faculty staff - additional instructors, many of whom are volunteering alumni, are involved in order to give every student necessary attention. Rather than having to learn the material from a textbook, students discover it through solving sequences of problems. Solutions are presented by the students to the instructors in one-on-one discussions.[17] This method, introduced by Konstantinov, proved to be effective and was adopted by other educational institutions in both Russia and abroad, including School 179, the Independent University of Moscow and the department of Mathematics at Higher School of Economics. Several School 57 teachers have also written textbooks[18][19][20] that follow the method. The specialized curriculum includes introductory topics in linear algebra, calculus, set theory, and probability theory.
Awards and recognition
The school is consistently ranked among the top 10 Russian schools.[21] In 2016, school 57 was ranked fourth in Moscow by the Moscow Department of Education[22] and fifth in Russia by the Teacher's Newspaper, the leading educational periodical in Russia.[23] Several teachers from the school received honorary awards, including the President's award.[24] The school was also awarded grants by the Soros foundation and the American Mathematical Society.[25] In 2016, fifteen students of the school received awards of the All-Russian Mathematical Olympics.[26]
Extracurricular activities
School 57 offers a number of free courses for middle schoolers preparing students who intend to apply to the Mathematics, Humanities and Biology classes.[27] The Math program includes weekly problem solving sets for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders, some of the courses are published.[28] The Biology track includes lectures in Math, Biology and Chemistry for eighth graders, and future Humanities students study Literature and History. All of the courses take place in the first, historical building of the school on Maliy Znamenskiy lane. The school also offers a number of clubs for students of each of its three buildings, including a chess club, film club, ceramics club, theater club (both puppet theater and drama) and a course preparing for TOEFL and IELTS standardized English tests.
Class vacations, including those involving intense work (lectures, presentations, field trips), are popular in the school, though not mandated by the administration. Math classes usually tend to have mountain hiking journeys, while humanities classes organize urban trips, focusing on cultural and historical studies. Since 1996 the school worked together with the Tauric Chersonese museum to organize volunteers from the number of students and alumni to work and learn on different archaeological sites in the area.[29][30]
Math Competition
School 57 holds an annual Math competition for sixth and seventh graders from Moscow schools, sometimes accommodating more than 300 students.[31] During the competition, students interact with professors, as well as mathematics graduate and postgraduate students of Moscow universities. The competition consists of two rounds and a series of lectures on various subjects by school teachers and alumni professors.[32]
Math Summer Camp
Since 2012, the school has been hosting a mathematical summer camp for high school students, where university professors offer a number of introductory courses in different areas of college level mathematics. School 57 students are admitted automatically, students of other Moscow schools receive a spot in the camp based on results of a competition. The summer camp is jointly organized by the school, the Higher School of Economics and Yandex. In 2016, the summer camp had 15 courses and 80 students. The topics covered in the camp's course include the Young tableau, knot invariants and Schubert polynomials. Students who have the School 57 Math camp's honors certificate have a better chance at getting into the Higher School of Economics.[33]
Lectorium
In September 2016, a series of lectures by notable alumni was launched in a joint effort by the school's alumni and students’ parents.[34] Lectures take place in all three buildings of the school, the speakers include Alexander Barulin and Anatoly Starostin. Lectures vary in format from oral presentations to interactive master classes.
Traditions
School 57 has a tradition of keeping in touch with its alumni. Every 1st Saturday of February, the school celebrates its birthday, and current students arrange entertainment for the alumni, including refreshments, skits, and games, including The Hat game. The alumni, in turn, come up with intellectual contests for students.
Controversies
In August 2016, several school graduates publicly accused two school teachers of sexual misconduct and the school administration of deliberate concealment of these misconducts. This scandal led to the retirement of the Principal Sergey Mendelevich. The school is still undergoing legal investigation as of November 2016.[35]
Notable people
Alumni
Among the notable alumni, most work in the field of mathematics. However, the list also contains well-known scholars in other disciplines, as well as politicians, businessmen, and public figures.
- Pavel Bardin (born 1975), film director, screenwriter and producer.
- Boris Barkas (1953–2007) poet, songwriter, author of songs for Alla Pugacheva and Mashina Vremeni
- Valentin Baryshnikov, editor of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Roman Bezrukavnikov, mathematician, professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Alexei Bondal, mathematician
- Grigory Bubnov (born 1970), economist, president of Moscow Technological Institute
- Dmitry Dolgopyat (born 1972), mathematician, professor at University of Maryland, College Park
- Masha Gessen (born 1967), journalist, author, LGBT rights activist
- Mark Greenberg(born 1953), interpreter, winner of Andrei Bely Prize
- Mikhail Kalyakin (born 1963), director of Zoological Museum of Moscow University
- Mikhail Kapranov (born 1961), mathematician, professor at Yale University
- Tatyana Kasatkina (born 1963) philosopher, philologist
- Anna Kashina, writer, author of The Princess of Dhagabad
- Andrey Khazin (born 1969), historian, art critic, professor of Moscow State University
- Mikhail Khovanov (born 1972), mathematician, inventor of Khovanov homology, professor at Columbia University
- Egor Kholmogorov (born 1975), publicist, political figure
- Natalia Kholmogorova (born 1976), public figure, interpreter, journalist
- Andrey Kozarzhervsy (1918–1995) philologist, professor of Moscow State University
- Alexander Kuznetsov (mathematician) (born 1973), mathematician, professor at National Research University – Higher School of Economics
- Artemy Lebedev (born 1976), designer, author of the Moscow Metro map
- Mikhail Levandovskii, a three time winner of World Competition of the game What? Where? When?
- Ernst Lissner (1874–1941), painter
- Sergei Lukianov(born 1963), biochemist, president of Russian National Research Medical University
- Vladimir Matetsky (born 1952), composer and producer
- Alexander Mezhirov (1923–2009), soviet poet
- Petr Mitrichev (born 1985), competitive programmer
- Maksim Moshkow (born 1966), public figure
- Vadim Moshkovich (born 1967), businessman and philanthropist
- Nikita Nekrasov (born 1973), physicist, professor at Stony Brook University
- Igor Pak (born 1971), mathematician, professor at University of California, Los Angeles
- Kirill Parfenov(born 1960), economist,
- Valerii Rubakov(born 1955), physicist
- Irina Shostakovskaya, poetess, winner of Andrei Bely Prize
- Alexei Savvateev (born 1973), mathematician, economist, president of University of Dmitry Pozharskii
- Vera Serganova, (born 1961) mathematician, professor at University of California, Berkeley
- Konstantin Sonin (born 1972), economist, professor at University of Chicago
- Georgiy Starostin (born 1976), linguist
- Askar Tuganbaev (born 1977), businessman, creator of Rutube
- Misha Verbitsky (born 1969), mathematician, professor at Université libre de Bruxelles
- Boris Zakhoder (1918–2000), poet and children's writer
- Olga Zondberg(born 1972), author
- Anton Zorich (born 1962), mathematician, professor at fr:Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu
Faculty
The schools faculty includes a mathematician and professor Alexander Shen, an educator, geometer, author of several geometry textbooks Rafail Gordin, director of Moscow Center for Continuous Mathematical Education, head of development of Unified State Exam Ivan Yashenko.
Former faculty includes poet and novelist Igor Vishnevetsky, mathematician and Soviet dissident Tatyana Velikanova, biologist, founder of the biological classes at School 57 and other Moscow schools Galina Sokolova.
References
- ↑ "School 57 - Teachers". Moscow Department for Education. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ "School 57 - Information". Moscow Department for Education. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- 1 2 Vogeli, Bruce (2015). Special Secondary Schools for the Mathematically Talented. World Scientific. ISBN 9789814667487.
- ↑ "Karl Masing". Discover Moscow. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ The success of pupils is the success of schools
- ↑ "School 57 - the brotherhood of brainies". Moscow 24. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
- ↑ "Sergey Mendelevich: I am a fiftysemite". polit.ru. 2005-08-31. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
- ↑ "Slava Gerovitch -- Formal Structures and informal mechanisms of postwar soviet mathematics" (PDF). MIT.
- ↑ "School 57 Admission rules" (PDF). School 57.
- ↑ "Preparatory classes to school 57". School 57.
- ↑ "School 57 - Humanities". School 57.
- ↑ "Biology classes at school 57". Bioengineering and Bioinformatics of Moscow State University.
- ↑ "Department of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics". Moscow State University.
- ↑ "School 57 -- Admission". School 57.
- ↑ "Top 10 Universities in Russia". TopUniversities.
- ↑ "Top-20 Schools of Moscow". "Big City" Journal.
- ↑ Davidovich, Boris (2013-02-01). Russian strategies for talent development: stimulating comfort and discomfort. Routledge. ISBN 9781136028861.
- ↑ Davidovich, Boris. Calculus course in School 57 (PDF). MCCME.
- ↑ Yashenko, Ivan. Elements of Mathematics in Problems (PDF). MCCME.
- ↑ Sergeev, Petr. Mathematics in math classes of School 57 (PDF).
- ↑ "School 57 Results" (PDF). Moscow State Department of Education.
- ↑ "Moscow Schools Rating". Moscow Department for Education. Retrieved 2016-10-26.
- ↑ "Top 25 Russian Schools". Teacher's Newspaper. Retrieved 2016-10-27.
- ↑ "Support Program for Math and Science Teachers". Dynasty Foundation.
- ↑ "School description". School 57.
- ↑ "All Russian math competition". MCCME.
- ↑ "School 57 -- Circles". School# 57.
- ↑ Dorichenko, Sergey (2011-12-29). A Moscow Math Circle. MSRI. ISBN 9780821868744.
- ↑ "Digs in Chersonesus". Independent Television of Sevastopol.
- ↑ "Why Putin needs an oath from the citizens of Chersonesus". National News Agency. Retrieved 2015-09-30.
- ↑ "Math Competition in School 57". Olimpiada.ru.
- ↑ "School 57 -- Math Competition". School 57.
- ↑ "Addmision rules document" (PDF). Higher School of Economics.
- ↑ "Lectorium 57".
- ↑ "Sexual Assault Scandal Hits Elite Moscow School, Rocks Russian Intelligentsia". The Moscow Times.