You will have an opportunity to ask questions of Hamilton County Schools
representatives on Monday, December 3 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.in the lobby of
the University Center as applications are distributed for the
county's Magnet Schools, including the new Brown Academy for
Classical Studies, located adjacent to campus on McCallie Avenue, and
the Battle Academy for Teaching and Learning, located at Main and
Market Streets.

UTC is a major partner in the development of these schools and faculty and
students from our College of Education and Applied Professional Studies
will be active in them.

Downtown employees, UTC faculty members and UTC students who are
parents of elementary school-aged children are encouraged to consider
he schools.

The Brown Academy will have a liberal arts emphasis with immersion in
the classical studies of literature, history, and the sciences.

The Battle Academy will apply a standards-based curriculum with the theory
of Multiple Intelligences and a national reading program used to strengthen
skills for all students.

Application deadline for Hamilton County Magnet Schools is February 15, 2002.

For more information, check out http://www.hcde.org/