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Secret to successful schools in Middletown: 'High expectations'

Originally published: December 13, 2012 8:26 AM
Updated: December 13, 2012 10:19 AM
By MEGHAN E. MURPHY  meghan.murphy@cablevision.com

John W. Chorley Elementary School PTO president Justine

Photo credit: Meghan E. Murphy | John W. Chorley Elementary School PTO president Justine Schwab came to the school Wednesday to reward students' school pride with ice cream after lunch. School pride is one of the attributes Middletown educators encourage as a key to engaging students in a low-income urban school district. (Dec. 12, 2012)

Middletown High School junior Jonathan Gomez is going to make the best lip dub video that YouTube has ever seen. He has formed a committee, recruited a student videographer and mapped out the route through the school -- ending, of course, in the district's impressive sports stadium.

"It's a great school. I have a lot of pride," the junior said Wednesday. "And I want to spread that pride to...

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