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DECEMBER 2003

COVER STORIES

A Therapeutic Mecca: The McCarton School
by Jocelyn K. Egyes
Sitting in Dr. Cecelia McCarton's office there is no doubt that her passion is children. Kermit the Frog and a teddy bear sit side by side on a bookshelf while dozens of other toys line her office. But it's a special kind of child that warms the heart of this pediatrician, it's "children who are different" says McCarton, her blue eyes passionately sparkling as she speaks of 'her' children. READ MORE

McCarton School Parent Shares Views
One parent who sees the learning first hand is Noam Spanier. His 6-year-old daughter Shira has been with the program... READ MORE

CAREERS

Lewis Frumkes, Director, Writing Center, Marymount Manhattan College
by Dorothy Davis
Lewis Burke Frumkes, who right after graduation worked on Wall Street, is now the Director of The Writing Center at Marymount Manhattan College. READ MORE

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NEW JERSEY NEWS

New Section!
$1.8 Million for Blended Learning in NJ College
by Sebastian Vasta, Ed.D.
A five-year grant from the United States Department of Education is allowing New Jersey's largest community college to accelerate its goal of infusing technology... READ MORE

What You Need To Know About Managing Credit Cards
by Patricia Flaherty McNeilly, M.B.A., Financial Advisor
Teens are ringing up too much debt too fast, with all the related problems-impulse buying, overspent budgets, and bad credit. What's the solution? READ MORE

McGreevey to Highlight Reforms that Support
Great Teachers

Recognizing that providing our children with the skills to compete in the 21st century economy means supporting great teachers and high teacher quality. READ MORE

Rutgers University Teaches RESPECT to Students
by Steven Dranoff, Ph.D. & Wanda Dobrich, Ph.D.
American schools are struggling with a challenge to educate students not only academically, but also to build character in a climate of social upheaval. With shrinking resources... READ MORE

EDITORIALS

Global Education in Our Schools
by Stuart Dunn
Recently, Dr. John Brademas, former Congressman and President Emeritus of NYU, addressed The Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. READ MORE

SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS

High School Youth Ambassadors Lead the Way
by Jocelyn K. Egyes
Happy chatter of friendship flows through the room. Smiles and laughter are constant throughout the conversation. Looking around one would think this young group of... READ MORE

Council of School Supervisors & Administrators
by Jill Levy, President, CSA
It is 14 years since I began working in CSA's Supervisory Support Program as an intervener, but this year, more than any other, has wrought so many changes that it has brought... READ MORE

How Do We Address The Reading Crisis In America?
by Dr. Bill Blokker & Mitchell Levine
According to a recent report of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), there are over 33 million K--12 students reading at least two grades below level-over two thirds of... READ MORE

Profiles in Education:
Prof. David Elliot, NYU
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
What do music educators do? The sweet tenor voice hardly betrays the insistent author of Music Matters, Dr. David Elliott's 1995 declaration of "paraxial philosophy," which he... READ MORE

The Private Sector Helps CCNY to help the
Public Schools

by Alfred S. Posamentier, Ph.D.
It is by now no secret that we have a national crisis in the teaching of mathematics in our urban schools. What is news is that the private sector is coming to the rescue! READ MORE

PS 77 Learns About International Year of Freshwater
by Tom Kertes
This was truly a case of "Everything you wanted to know about water but were afraid to ask." READ MORE

Looking for Scapegoats
by Randi Weingarten, President, UFT
During recent hearings before the City Council, I started to wonder what school system Council Education Chair Eva Moskowitz and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein were talking about. READ MORE

Win Free Movie Tickets: Where is this Statue?
Soon after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, the Union League Club, a Republican organization founded two years earlier to promote good government, commissioned... READ MORE

UN/USA: Keeping Students Active in Global Issues
by Michelle Accorso
Currently implemented in five cities across the United States, including New York, Houston, Tampa, Los Angeles and Chicago, Model U.N./Global Classrooms is continuing full-force in its... READ MORE

COLLEGES

CCNY Receives Record Grant from Petrie Foundation to Boost Math Education
by Adam W. Sugerman
The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation has donated nearly $3.7 million to The City College of New York for the advancement of mathematics education. It is the largest foundation... READ MORE

Martha Nussbaum Presents Rudin Lecture at Marymount Manhattan College
Marymount Manhattan College (MMC) recently hosted the Jack & Lewis Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, featuring Dr. Martha Nussbaum, in the Theresa Lang Theatre at the College, located at 221 East 71st Street. READ MORE

So You Want To Be An English Major?
by Sarah N. Lynch
For senior Regina Udler, an English-computer science double major at Barnard College, it all began with Dr. Seuss. READ MORE

MEDICAL UPDATE

AAAS Urges United Nations to Endorse Cloning for Research Purposes
AAAS, the world's largest general science society, urged the United Nations to support embryonic cloning for research or "therapeutic" purposes, but ban all efforts to use cloning for human reproduction.
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Children's Hospital that Wall Street Built
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian, the only children's hospital in Manhattan and one of the largest in the country, opened its doors recently.
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NYU School of Medicine Faculty Member
Receives France's Highest Scientific Honor
The French Academy of Sciences selected Dr. David Sabatini as the recipient of its highest honor for 2003, the Grande Medaille D'Or (the Grand Gold Medal), in recognition of his scientific contributions to Cell Biology.
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CHILDREN'S CORNER

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Dr. Toy Presents-Best Holiday Gifts Wish List
by Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D., (Dr. Toy)
This is the time of year you want to begin to find those special play products for children. These products combine learning and fun plus they are unique and interesting. They will provide hours...
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Holiday Fun at NY Botanical Garden:
Gingerbread Adventures Holiday Train Show

Twinkling lights, towering evergreens, a miniature New York made from plants glowing in the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, and topiary bunnies with mittens and scarves baking...
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Letting Little Hands Reach Out
by Dr. Carole G. Hankin with Randi T. Sachs
I'm in the very best stage of parenting: It's called grandparenting. My three children have given me seven grandchildren all under the age of seven, and most are under the age of three.
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BOOKS

Magda's Daughter:
A Hidden Child's Journey Home by Evi Blaikie

Reviewed by Merri Rosenberg
There are as many stories of the Holocaust as there are survivors. In recent years, there has been increasing recognition that such stories need to embrace the wider spectrum...
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Opening Windows of Science at the Harlem Society
by Jocelyn K. Egyes
Every morning over the summer 16 year old Sobella Quezada woke up at 7 am at her home in the South Bronx to get ready for work. After a 40 minute subway commute, Quezada arrived... READ MORE

Quirky Kids: Understanding & Helping Your Child
Who Doesn't Fit In

Reviewed by Merri Rosenberg
I envy those lucky Boston parents, who have easy access to Drs. Perri Klass and Eileen Costello as their children's pediatricians. My late father was a pediatrician, and I love my children's... READ MORE

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MUSIC, ART & DANCE

Adolphe Sax & the Saxophone
by Mr. Rodney J.Croft
Adolphe Sax, born in November 1814 in Dinant on the river Meuse in Belgium, became a prolific inventor whose inventions included the saxophone, patented in Paris in 1846.
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Rockefeller U's Precollege Science Education Program for K-12 Teachers
Science teachers in public, private, or parochial schools in the tri-state area are encouraged to apply to be a Rockefeller University Outreach Teacher Fellow.
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The Rossini Festival in Pesaro
by Irving Spitz
An operatic extravaganza on the Adriatic
Pesaro, a delightful city on the Adriatic coast, is the birthplace of Gioachino Rossini. Since 1980 it has hosted an annual festival devoted to the production of the operas of its illustrious...
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METROBEAT

"Bright Lights, Big City"
by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
All over town this fall, it's lights-camera-and action, with more than 30 feature films and prime time television programs in production in New York City. In fact, earlier this month, the...
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Give the Gift of Reading:
Reading Reform Begins at Home

by Matilda Raffa Cuomo and Susan J. Moesker
In any given New York City classroom, when children sit at desks with textbooks open, how many of them actually understand the words printed on the page?
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"Implementing" the CFE Decision
by Assemblyman Steven Sanders
When the State's highest court, the Court of Appeals, issued its landmark ruling in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) case last June, the Legislature and Governor were...
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MOVIES AND THEATER

"Lady Next Door" Opens Folksbiene's 89th Season
by Jan Aaron
A tale of 20th century immigrants, performed first in 1916, gets the forever-young Folksbiene Yiddish Theater's 89th consecutive season off to a great start with...
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Looney Tunes:
Back in Action & The Barbarian Invasions

by Jan Aaron
For holiday filmgoers who want to take the kids out or get in touch with their inner child, there's Warner Bros. Looney Tunes: Back in Action, a blend of live-action and animation.
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Profile:
Zalmen Mlotek & the Yiddish Theater

by Joanna Leefer
In the early 20th century, New York City was the host to two dozen Yiddish Theaters troupes entertaining more than two million people. As Jewish immigrants assimilated and moved out...
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No Need for Tears
by Joan Constance Croft
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HOMESCHOOLING

Distance Learning Profile:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Independent Study High School
by Mitchell Levine
Distance education has come along way since the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Independent Study High School's inception in 1929.
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Distance Learning Profile:
Houston Independent School District's Virtual School
by Mitchell Levine
The Houston Independent School District may be in fact the geographically largest of Texas' brick-and-mortar school systems, but that didn't stop it from developing a virtual education...
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TECHNOLOGY

Product Review:
E&B Company's Slipper and Flipper PDA Cases
by Mitchell Levine
A PDA in the year 2003 is a remarkable piece of technology: once you have one, it's hard to believe you ever got along without it. And increasingly, schools in our area are agreeing.
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Product Review:
Innovative's  LCD Arms
by Mitchell Levine
The benefits of flat panel screens are subtle, but they're there. One of the biggest obstacles to technology deployment, especially in the schools that need it most, is space.
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Product Review:
PhonicsTutor Frequent Words
by Mitchell Levine
One thing no one in education seems to agree on is reading methodology. A confusing profligation of approaches have been suggested with no end in sight. A point of general agreement, it...
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Product Review:
Radtech's ScreensavRz
by Mitchell Levine
Today's mobile computers pack a lot of power and multimedia performance into their compact chassis. But there's a price to pay for those streamlined form factors.
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Product Review:
Sharp Actius RD20
by Mitchell Levine
We've reviewed an awful lot of laptops in this section over the last few years; unsurprising, as it's common knowledge that our school systems are gearing up to make a full deployment...
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