COVER STORIES
Remembering Robert
Francis Kennedy
by Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
The
name Kennedy is synonymous with public service, with answering
the call to improve the lives of all people around the globe.
Robert Kennedy was the attorney general of the United States
from 1961-1964 and senator from 1965-1968. In the tragic aftermath
of his brother President John Kennedy’s assassination,
he was murdered in Los Angeles in 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel.
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EXCLUSIVE
INTERVIEW
Kerry Kennedy: Honoring
Her Father's Tradition
By Joan
Baum, Ph.D.
It’s
appropriate that many who were politically active in the
sixties associate “speak truth to power” with
demonstrations to end the Vietnam War, but the now famous
phrase (which actually surfaced in 1955 as part of a strategy
statement by the American Friends Service Committee) also
resonates as a rallying cry for social justice and civil
and human rights in this country and abroad, no more so than
as articulated by Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968), whose impassioned
dedication to redress the lot of the poor and the abused
in this country and abroad was recently honored in Washington
at a special memorial on the occasion of his 8oth birthday. READ
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SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
On-Line
Learning: Vantage Learning Offers Student Writing Feedback
at the Stroke of a Keyboard
By Emily Sherwood,
Ph.D.
Imagine
a tenth grade, Spanish-speaking student who is reading at a
sixth grade level. READ
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Veteran
Coach Arrives at Staten Island Academy
to Guide Girls Basketball Program
By Richard Kagan
It’s
been a long time since the varsity girls’ basketball
program at Staten Island Academy (SIA) reigned supreme in New
York. The Lady Tigers captured the New York State Association
of Independent Schools crown during the 1992-1993 season. There
have been some lean years since then. READ
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The
Dean's Column:
Surprising Rope Around the Earth
by Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D.
At this time of the year a teacher needs to seek ideas that
will put some life into the instructional program. READ
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Scholastic Early Childhood
Products
Selected by U.S. Department of Ed
Early
childhood products and services from Scholastic Education,
a leading provider of research-based print and technology solutions
proven to raise reading achievement for students in grades
pre-K and above, have been selected by three of the five grant
recipients of the U.S. Department of Education 2005 Early Childhood
Educator Professional Development (ECEPD) Program. READ
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AIFL
Fosters International Unity Among Youth
By Liza Young
With information
about nations around the world just a mouse click away, misconceptions
still abound with respect to the nature of different cultures
and nations. READ
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The
Law & Education:
Will Student Uniforms Become
the Norm?
By Martha McCarthy, Ph.D.
In
general, school authorities can ban student attire that
disrupts the educational process, is lewd or vulgar,
promotes unlawful activity, or conflicts with the school’s
objectives. READ
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92 Street Y Nursery:
A Comprehensive
Learning Program For Youngsters
By Liza Young
It’s
not surprising that so many parents of pre-school age children
vie competitively in pursuit of sending their kids to the 92nd
Street Y nursery school. READ
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Put
Calculus in its Right Place
By Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D.
Who
would think that the very course designed to add prestige
to a high school’s curriculum might be one of the
causes for a school’s poor performance on mathematics
tests—of
late a great concern for local school districts ever since
the federal “No Child Left Behind” law made testing
the criterion for federal financial support. READ
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NYC
Virtual Enterprise Holds
Local Business Plan Competitions
Winners
Advance To Citywide Competition
By Iris Blanc
Now approaching its tenth anniversary in New York City
public schools, the Virtual Enterprises (VE) program
represents a well-established approach to teaching high
school students about business through task-oriented
and hands-on applications. READ
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COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS
College
Presidents Series:
Dr. Stephen J. Sweeny, College
of New Rochelle
Devoted to Soli
Deo Gloria (glory to God alone) and Liberal Education
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
“You
work with your door open” and feel limitations, only
as these are “offered from above,” says Dr. Stephen
J. Sweeny, trying to explain some part of the passion and the
philosophy that have motivated him for over 30 years as an
administrator at the College of New Rochelle (CNR) and, for
the last 9 years, as its president, invited to serve by the
board of trustees, who dispensed
with the usual search, and
then repeatedly asked to continue. READ
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College
Presidents Series:
President Lynda Katz, Landmark
College
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
Nestled
in the bucolic Vermont town of Putney, home to artists and
artisans, where the 250 year old Putney Inn recalls a more
gentile way of life unspoiled by fast food chains, Landmark
College sits on a tract of land once home to Windham College,
which closed its doors in 1978. READ
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CCNY
President Gregory H. Williams
Announces $26 Million Gift From
Intel Co-Founder Andrew S. Grove, ’60
The
City College of New York (CCNY) announced recently that Andrew
S. Grove, a member of the Class of 1960 and former chairman
and a co-founder of Intel Corp., the world’s leading
producer of microchips, will donate $26 million to his alma
mater, and that CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein will recommend
to the CUNY Board of Trustees that CCNY’s School of Engineering
be named as The Grove School of Engineering. READ
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Empire
State SUNY:
Getting Your College Degree from Home
By Liza Young
Many
of George Orwell’s 1948 predictions in 1984 have
since become realities. READ
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Teachers
College CEO&I Announces Winners Of First Annual
Lifelong Learning Award
Four Institutions,
Educators Receive Honor
The Center for Education Outreach & Innovation
(CEO&I) of Teachers College, Columbia University, recently announced the four winners of its first annual Lifelong Learning
Award: the Chautauqua Institution (and its president Thomas
Becker), Brazilian educator Paulo Freire (posthumously),
educator Maxine Greene and PBS (Public Broadcasting Service). READ
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Distinguished
Alumni:
Wen Chen: From Central China
to The College of New Rochelle
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
There
is nothing inconsistent in Wen Chen’s having double majored
in chemistry and biology at the College of New Rochelle (CNR),
an undergraduate institution known for its concentration on
the liberal arts. READ
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CUNY
Chancellor Announces
New Compact for Public Higher Education
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Parents,
take note: Introduced by the president of the Center for Educational
Innovation-Public Education Association (CEI-PEA) Semour Fliegel,
who hailed him as the first CUNY graduate to be the leader
of a great public university, and someone Fliegel’s own
father would have called a “prince of a man,” Matthew
Goldstein, the chancellor of The City University of New York,
gave an impassioned address on the need to rethink the funding
of public higher education, citing along the way The New
York Times’ Thomas
Friedman, new data on costs and student performance, and his
mother. READ
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60
Minutes Correspondent Mike Wallace Advises CUNY Students
on Journalism Careers
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
Widely
hailed as the preeminent television interviewer in the business,
a man who has asked exacting, soul-baring questions to the
world’s most famous and
infamous newsmakers for nearly four decades, CBS’ 60
Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace shared his views on the “noble
profession of journalism” to a packed auditorium of CUNY
undergraduate students recently. READ
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Bank Street Scholarships
In Special Ed For Bilingual & Dual Language Teachers
Bank
Street College is offering ten scholarships funded by the U.S.
Department of Education to qualified bilingual general education
teachers committed to serving children in general, inclusion,
and special education classrooms. READ
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Call For Entries:
Thirteen/WNET
& JPMorgan Chase Awards Open
To Tri-State Students
Tri-state area teachers have until January 31 to enter pioneering student
video, Web or multimedia projects in the JPMorgan Chase “Multimedia in
the Classroom” Awards, presented by Thirteen/WNET and WLIW New York as
part of their first Celebration of Teaching and Learning professional development
conference, March 24 and 25 in NYC. READ
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GUEST EDITORIAL
It’s
Time To End The Old Distinction Between Vocational And Academic
Education
By Jerry F. Cammarata, Ph.D.
& Jerrold Ross, Ph.D.
Once
upon a time, we could make a distinction between “educating
for making a living” and “education for life.” READ
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Letters to the Editors
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METROBEAT
Special Attention
to Special Education
By Jill Levy, President, CSA
Once
again special education is in the news. After spending approximately
$350,000 on a study researched and written by Thomas Hehir
of Harvard University, is it still plausible that all this
so-called educational team at Tweed could justifiably say is
that, two years into their reorganization of special education
services, they are “headed in the right direction”? READ
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Technology
in Elementary School Education
By Andrew Gardner
With increased access to digital media tools in schools and no clear expectations
about how to use them, teachers have an opportunity to
be creative. READ
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CHILDRENS CORNER
From
the Superintendent’s Seat:
For My Father
By Dr. Carole G. Hankin
with Randi T. Sachs
In this
column we share information and advice on parenting, and how
to be the best advocates for our children. This week, my family
and I said goodbye to our very strongest advocate, my father.
Dad passed away just a day before he was to turn 93. He had
a very good life. READ
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FEATURES
Remembering
Preston Robert Tisch
by Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
I
will always remember Bob Tisch as he sat at lunch with me
at the Regency, recovering from neurosurgery and dynamic
as ever. “Hi Tiki,” he called to the football
great from across the room in the midst of answering my questions
about his early days in Lakewood, light years away from the
sophisticated hotel he now owned. READ
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MUSIC, ART & DANCE
Taking
Judy Carmichael In Stride
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Count
Basie is said to have called her “Stride” because
of her command of this incredibly difficult technique of fast
left-hand syncopated jumps that beat out rhythms against right-hand
melodies. READ
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The
True Meaning of Leadership
By Scott Noppe-Brandon
Lately,
I’ve begun to notice some strange developments. READ
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Film Review:
Growing
Up: Harry Potter’s Goblet Of Fire;
Exciting Austen: Pride & Prejudice
by Jan Aaron
t’s no more kids’ play at Hogwarts: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth Potter
movie based on a J.K. Rowling’s novel is dark and daring
with a PG-13 rating. READ
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Theater
Review:
Yiddish Theater At Its Best:
Folksbiene’s On Second Avenue
By Jan Aaron
Crave
a sip of chicken soup for the soul? Dine out on the nostalgia-flavored
review, On the Second Avenue. READ
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BOOK REVIEWS
Logos
Bookstore’s
Recommendations
By H. Harris Healy, III,
President, Logos Bookstore
It’s
that time of year again, the holidays of gift giving are
upon us. READ
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Review
of The Charter School Dust-Up
Reviewed By Merri
Rosenberg
There
is more than a touch of Schadenfreude in this seemingly objective,
scholarly book analyzing the relative effectiveness of charter
schools compared to regular public schools. READ
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Review
of Sister Chicas
By Merri Rosenberg
Think “Ya
Ya Sisters” crossed with “How the Garcia Girls
Lost Their Accent”, and you’ll have some idea
of just what a treat this delightful novel is. READ
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