COVER STORIES
Making
History:
Honoring Outstanding Teachers in New York City Public
Schools to Become Annual Event
The Department of Education, as the Board of Education is
now known, is over 100 years old. During that time, the pendulum
has swung from centralization to decentralization and back,
from teaching reading via phonics to the whole word approach
and now back to phonics again, from bilingual education to
immersion and back. READ
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Awards Ceremony
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SPECIAL EDUCATION
New Dyslexia
Study at NYU Child Study Center
by Adam Koplewicz
A research study of teenagers with dyslexia has begun at
the New York University Child Study Center. This study
is attempting to shed new light and understanding on
a common but disabling condition.
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Special Education in New York City
by Jill Levy
Thirty-five years ago, many children, including my own, did
not have the right to attend public schools. They were
children with “problems”—disabilities
that prevented them from learning or attending school as
easily as other children. READ
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EDITORIALS
Money the Root of Regent
Problems?
by Dr. Alfred S. Posamentier
Two recent events making education headline news seem
to be unrelated but, in fact, are quite closely related.
The New York State Regents examination for Math A was
deemed to be flawed. The New York State Court of Appeals
ruled that education in New York City was under funded.
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SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
Creating Community at Baruch College
Campus HS
by Rob Luchow
It was still hot outside by 6 PM on June 24, but the heat
didn’t stop all 97 students of the Baruch College
Campus High School Class of 2003 from wearing their caps
and gowns. In high spirits, students, faculty, and family
members packed the Baruch College auditorium to witness
the sixth graduating class in the high school’s
history.
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Summer Adventures at the New York
Botanical-Garden
Children and their families double their fun this summer
at the two gardens designed especially for children: the
Everett Children’s Adventure Garden and the Ruth
Rea Howell Family Garden.
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High School Student Wins 1st Prize
in Marymount Essay
Every year, Lewis Frumkes, Director of the Writing Center
at Marymount Manhattan College, holds the Mortimer Levitt
Contest for high school students around the city. READ
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Special
To Education Update:
Unrest in Education in France: Teachers on Strike
by Sarah
Elzas
Paris, France
Recently, thousands of people, mostly teachers, marched through
the center of Paris from Bastille to the Assemblée
Nationale to protest, among other things, the decentralization
of part of the French national education system. READ
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What Do Superintendents Do In the Summer?
by Dr. Carole
G. Hankin with Randi T. Sachs
It’s certainly quieter here in the summer, but that
doesn’t mean that a superintendent can relax. For a
superintendent, students or not, school is a twelve-month
a year experience. READ
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Summer Internships and Study
Compiled by Katarzyna Kozanecka
and Rob Luchow READ
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SIR: A Unique Program for Private and Public Schools
by
Joan Baum, Ph.D.
According to Professor Emeritus Jed Luchow of the College
of Staten Island, the four-year phonics-based teacher training
literacy program he directs—called Success in Reading
or SIR—is not only having “dramatic” effect
in the Hebrew day schools where it has been introduced, but
holds out extraordinary promise for the public schools. READ
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High School
Students Bridge
United States - Israel Relationships
by Rob Luchow
United States and Israel relations may appear linked only
by an older generation of politicians. However, one organization
understands that the future stability of this relationship
relies on its youth. READ
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COLLEGES
CCNY Art
Professor Named “Distinguished Alumna”
At
Berkeley
Michi Itami, a Professor of Art at City College and 1971
graduate of the University of California-Berkeley, has
been named a “Distinguished Alumna” by her
alma mater.
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Con Edison Awards Grant to College of New Rochelle
Funds Will Benefit Rosa Parks Campus in Harlem
The College of New Rochelle's School of New Resources (SNR)
announced that the Consolidated Edison Company of New York,
Inc. has awarded a grant to the Access Center at the Rosa
Parks Campus in Harlem. READ
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Monroe College Offers New Degree Program
in Criminal Justice
Monroe College President Stephen J. Jerome announced that
the college will begin offering the Associate in Science
and the Bachelor of Science degrees in criminal justice
beginning with its fall semester in September, 2003. READ
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Reflections on English Language Learners
by Adam Sugerman
Our city’s education leaders made the correct decision
in rethinking a one-sided approach to the city’s English
language learners. We hope that common sense, rather than
political pressure, helped Chancellor Klein and his team
decide to use a variety of proven approaches in making sure
this growing student population is capable of surviving the
realities of adult society. READ
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MEDICAL UPDATE
Protect your Eyes During
Long, Summer Days
There’s so much to see and do in the summer. At the
same time, there are many things about summer that could
get in the way of seeing anything all year around. READ
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Reflections of New Physicians
Close to one in four newly trained physicians would select
a field other than medicine if they could begin their careers
again, according to a survey by Merritt, Hawkins, & Associates,
a Dallas-based physician search and consulting firm. READ
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Silver Hill
Hospital Names New President &
Medical Director
Sigurd H. Ackerman, M.D. has been named President and Medical
Director of Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, CT. In
announcing the appointment, Steve Stillerman, Board Chairman
of the nationally recognized psychiatric hospital, noted
Dr. Ackerman’s distinguished career in the practice
of psychiatry. READ
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BOOKS
Logos Bookstore’s
Recommendations
by H. Harris Healy, III, President,
Logos Bookstore READ
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Prodigal
Sons & Material Girls:
How Not To Be Your Child’s
ATM
Did you know there are 80 million young people under age
25 in the U.S.? That’s nearly one-third of the population.
Even more, that they spend or influence the spending of $1
trillion year in this $10 trillion economy? Or that young
people today spend 5 times more money—adjusted for
inflation—than their parents did at the same age? READ
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Books & Basketball:
Summer Reading Program
Opens in Red Hook, Brooklyn
This summer, on every Saturday, children ages 8-11 in the
Red Hook Rise League will enjoy reading and storytelling
before a basketball game. READ
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MUSIC, ART & DANCE
Imagination Conversation
by Scott Noppe-Brandon
During an Imagination Conversation, organized last fall
by Lincoln Center Institute in 11 cities across the country,
visionary thinkers from the arts and education, the sciences,
public policy, business and the humanities, explored
the role imagination plays in their personal and professional
lives. READ
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MOVIES AND THEATER
Summer Family Films:
Sinbad;
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
by Jan Aaron
DreamWorks’ “Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas,” loosely
follows the adventures of the notorious Arabian sailor-thief
born over one thousand years ago in “The Arabian
Nights.” READ
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METROBEAT
Summer
at Mentoring USA
by Matilda Raffa Cuomo and William Baker
Summer is here, so it’s time to take a break? Not
really! At Mentoring USA (MUSA), we see summer as a perfect
time to strengthen some of the connections that the mentors
and mentees have established during the school year, while
working on establishing new agendas.
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End of School Letter to Parents
by Chancellor Joel I. Klein READ
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A New Day
is Arriving For New York City’s Schools
by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Recently state law finally giving New York City voters direct
control over our public schools went into effect. That ended
a school governance structure that was notorious for its
unresponsive bureaucracy, waste and endless red tape. READ
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Victory
in CFE Case Should Bring
Vast New Resources for City Schools
by Assemblyman Steven Sanders
The landmark ruling by the New York State Court of Appeals
in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity case—in which the
Court held that New York State’s school aid formula
unconstitutionally denies New York City students a sound,
basic education and directed the Legislature to revamp the
formula to redress the injustice by July 2004—is a
huge victory for New York City students and a ringing defeat
for Governor George Pataki. READ
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TECHNOLOGY
Product Review:
Arco Duplidisk
3
by Mitchell Levine
Mathematics teachers perennially complain that students
lack statistics literacy. Here’s some scary ones:
an estimated 1 in 500 data centers will experience a critical
hardware failure serious enough to cause a severe “data
disaster.” READ
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Product Review:
Zero Toys’ Zero
Launcher
by Mitchell Levine
Common sense tells us that students find physics boring,
dry, and difficult. Labs are tedious. Equations are excruciating.
Newton’s laws might as well be in the Principia Mathematica’s
original Latin for all that today’s high school Regents
students care. READ
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