A
Conversation With Gaston Caperton, President, College Board
By
Merri Rosenberg
Given the trepidation and anxiety with which most high school
students view the College Board from afaror from the vantage
point of a humble test taker confronting the ominous SATsa visitor
somehow expected to find snapping alligators, snarling guard dogs,
or at the very least, a grim and forbidding entrance at the building
where the College Board is located. (more)
Academic
Olympics:
A Golden Educational Tool By Tom Kertes
So it wasnt Barcelona, Atlanta, or Sydney. But, in many ways,
the District 8 Bronx Academic Olympics couldnt have been more
enticing, demanding, and chuck-full-of thrills for all who participated
as the real thing. (more)
After-School
Programs:
Lively Exchange at Open Society Institute By Joan
Baum
The After-School Corporation (TASC), in just four brief years
has moved to the forefront of one of the countrys most concerted
efforts to reform public school supplementary education. (more)
Children's
Book Awards Bestowed by Bank Street By Joan Baum
How apt that the 30th annual Bank Street College of Education
presentation of The Irma S. and James H. Black Award for Excellence
in Childrens Literature should have been held at The Algonquin
Hotel. (more)
Mentoring
USA-Helping Children
Succeed in School and in Life By Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Children have always needed three pillars of support: home,
community and school. When one of these supports is broken, the
child suffers. (more)
Family
Fun in the Everett Children's Adventure Garden (more)
Graduations
in U.S. History Compiled
by Chris Rowan (more)
Thinking
About Homeschooling? By Christine Webb
Families come to the decision to homeschool in a variety of
ways. For some it is a lifestyle decision; for others it is an
education choice. (more)
400+
Learning Leaders School Volunteers Celebrate
Learning Leaders, the city-wide public school volunteer
organization, convened its annual Queens Borough Recognition Ceremony
at St. Johns University recently. (more)
Requiem
for Expertise By Jill S. Levy
Several Saturdays ago I received an unsettling phone call
from a dear friend, a respected principal. (more)
NJ
Asst. Principal Reflects on HS Graduation By Gina
M. Verrone
As we approach the closing months of school, students, teachers,
parents and administrators across our great nation will find themselves
reflecting on the future of the young adult lives that are a part
of the graduating Class of 2002. (more)
Inside
the Superintendent's Office: Tony Sawyer By
Marylena Mantas
"I accept no less for any single child in this district
than what I would for my own biological child," says Tony
Sawyer, superintendent of Manhattan High Schools. (more)
Testing
the Limits of No Child Left Behind By Bruce
Myint
President Bushs No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requires public
schools to administer reading and writing tests each year between
grades 3 through 8. (more)
Bank
Street College of Education:
Integral to Building A Better World By
Pola Rosen, Ed.D. (more)
Barnard
Graduates Reminded to Turn Talents & Energies Outward (more)
Columbia
University: Pres. Rupps Last Graduation (more)
157th
Commencement at Fordham U (more)
NYU
Dean of Education: Ann Marcus By Marylena Mantas
"Teaching is a very difficult job and it needs to be
a respectable middle class profession," says Ann Marcus,
Dean of the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University.
(more)
"Keep
Smiling" At Marymount Manhattan College By
Joan Baum
Recently, at Marymount Manhattan College Keep Smiling, the
watchwords of 94-year old philanthropist Mortimer Levitts life
and philosophy of life, needed no prompt: to be elicited. (more)
Midwood
High School Essay Winner
Receives $1000 Smile With Your Eyes By
Denise Elysabeth Friedman (more)
New
School University: Pres. Kerrey Reflects on 9/11
Excerpts of President Robert Kerrey's Commencement
Address: (more)
NY
Medical College: Paul LeClerc Honored (more)
Athletes
and Drugs...
The High Price of Success By Dr. Richard Frances
and Nancy Helle
The widespread use by athletes of performance enhancing drugs
many of which are sold over the counter, was discussed at the
recent seminar on Addiction Psychiatry at Silver Hill Hospital
in New Canaan, CT. (more)
Rockefeller
U. Fellow
Aspires To Make a Difference in Society & Science By
Marylena Mantas
For Tshaka Cunningham, a graduate fellow at Rockefeller University
and a recipient of the prestigious David Rockefeller fellowship,
quality time with his grandmother transcended visits to the local
playground. (more)
Weill
Cornell Medical College Advances Edited By Herman
Rosen, M.D.
Study of Cardiac Scarring That Leads to Heart Failure (more)
Kids
Hunt for Allergy Clues at Bronx Zoo By
Tom Kertes
What could zoos and allergies possibly have in common? (more)
From
the Superintendent's Seat
Electives
Can Be Enlightening By
Dr. Carole G. Hankin with Randi T. Sachs (more)
Logos
Bookstore's Recommendations
(more)
Mother
& Sons Write On Diabetes By
Merri Rosenberg
For families struggling with a childs chronic illness, managing
the physical practicalities and emotional turbulence can be a
challenge. (more)
Childrens
Books
Summertime
and the reading is easy!
Beat the heat and venture into the pages of a cool book. (more)
Arts
and Technology:
A Successful Merger in District 25, Queens By
Tom Kertes
Famous for having one of the very best art programs in the
nation, Queens Community School District 25 has always tried
to be a frontrunner of Arts in Education, said Arlene Jordan,
the Districts Supervisor of Expressive Arts. (more)
The
Lincoln Center Summer Institute: Bravo & Encore
By Joan Baum
Sometimes
its the little word that makes the difference. In the matter
of the Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) Arts in Education program,
the key to understanding how this particular school-arts collaboration
differs from all other programs that supplement, augment, and
enrich learning lies in the preposition in as opposed to the
conjunction and. (more)
National
Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH)
Founder Awarded Honorary Doctorate (more)
Phi
Delta Kappa, Columbia University Honors Superintendent
Patricia Synan & Inclusion Pioneer Teachers
Superintendent
Patricia Synan, District 14 in Brooklyn and 10 special education
teachers from District 75 who pioneered inclusion, (the integration
of special education children into regular classrooms), were honored
at Phi Delta Kappa (PDK), Columbia University, spring awards banquet.
(more)
Windward
School: Special Education At Its Best By Tom Kertes
Wise men say that some of the greatest things in the universe
once started out small. The Windward School one of the leading
places of learning for language disabled children in the U.S.
is the perfect example of that adage. (more)
NOT
NO MORE!!: St. John's Women's Basketball By Tom
Kertes
Not no More! is sure to become the battle-cry for the St. Johns
Womens Basketball team this season. (more)
Field
Visits Part of Summit By Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
One expects brilliant keynoters, erudite professors, the business
sector and educators to exchange ideas at various panels when
Teachers College, Columbia University organizes a special 3-day
technology conference such as this one. (more)
The Enabling Keyboard By
Neil Schuldiner (more)
TrueTip fingertip PDA Stylus By
Mitchell Levine (more)
Managing School Records
With New Software By
Pola Rosen, Ed.D.(more)
Teachers
College Holds Education Technology Summit By Bruce
Myint
Nobel laureate Niels Bohr once said: Prediction is very difficult,
especially if its about the future. (more) |