Outstanding Teacher
and Principal of the Year Win Free Trips to Austria |
Outstanding
Teacher of the Year Margaret Breen of Seward Park High
School, New York and Jeanette Sosa, Principal of
PS 151 Brooklyn won free trips to Austria sponsored
by Austrian Airlines at the 2004 Education Update
Outstanding Teacher ceremony. Education Update interviewed
them about their experiences. READ
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The
Bard College Prison Initiative
By Nazneen Malik
The brainchild of Max Kenner,
the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI), was created in 1999 to
address the educational needs of prisoners and to provide
them with the opportunity and the means to attain higher
education while remaining within the correctional system.
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School Programs at Bedford
Correctional Facility
By Michelle DeSarbo
All students at Bedford must
first take the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE). Based
on their TABE scores, the women are then placed into one of
four basic education levels. READ MORE
Schools Behind
Bars:
Prison College Programs
Unlock the
Keys
to Human Potential
By Gillian Granoff
Despite
the obvious advantages, the movements away from prison reforms
that educate and rehabilitate have been cut severely in the
past ten years. The concept of prison reform has been replaced
by policies that are punitive and in favor of permanent incarceration.
READ MORE
A Glimpse into the Imprisonment
of Jean Harris
By Richard Kaga
Jean
Harris served 12 years at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
for the murder of her long-time significant other, Dr. Herman
Tarnower, author of the best-seller, The Complete
Scarsdale Medical Diet.
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Prison Teachers
By Nazneen
Malik
I could
not help but notice some of the prison inmates lingering behind,
asking their teachers last minute questions as they put their
notebooks away into transparent school bags. READ MORE
SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
Math Lessons to Use in the Classroom
Rule of 72
What could be more relevant that showing how math helps us estimate the number of years it would take to double your money in your bank account? READ MORE
From
the Principal’s Desk
Corinne
Rello-Anselmi, PS 108, Bronx
When I became the Principal
of PS 108 Philip J. Abinanti School eight years ago, we were
making only moderate gains in literacy and were struggling
to meet the needs of all of our students. READ MORE
Rosa
Arrendondo, PS 128, Manhattan
What does it take to
improve academic achievement in New York City’s public
schools? As more and more educators are learning, building
effective private sector partnerships is key to helping students
reach their full academic potential. READ MORE
The Center for Arts Education
Showcases
Students’ Work
A gala benefit for the Center
for Arts Education (CAE), a premiere public/private partnership
founded to restore, stimulate and sustain quality arts programs
in the New York City public schools was held recently at Christie’s.
READ MORE
A
Look at French Education:
Interview with Principal Kerloch
By
Myriam Pinchon
Mr. Kerloch has a double responsibility because he is the
head and three days a week he is their teacher too. READ
MORE
The
National Education Association Foundation’s Grants for Schools & Districts
Nationwide
The NEA Foundation’s
next round of Innovation Grants and Learning & Leadership
Grants is right around the corner. READ MORE
Hunter HS Intel Winner
Goes to CCNY
By Michelle Desarbo
David L.V. Bauer, a 17-year-old
senior from Hunter College High School, recently won first
place in the Intel Science Talent Search for his work on neurotoxins
in humans. READ MORE
Schools Chancellor Joel
Klein Delivers Rudin Lecture at CCNY
By Liza Young
Delivered
by Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, the lecture addressed one
of the most critical issues of the day, the reform of the New
York City public schools. READ MORE
Olympics
of the Mind: Engaging Young Black Youth
By Nazneen Malik
Recently, The NAACP New York
City chapter of the Afro-Academic, Cultural, Technological
and Scientific Olympics (ACT-SO) hosted its 18th annual awards
ceremony marking the culmination of its local Olympics of the
Mind. READ MORE
An Interview with Preston
Robert Tisch
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
In an extraordinary life
of public service and philanthropy, including serving as Postmaster
General of The United States, being the city’s Ambassador
to Washington in the `90s... READ MORE
Trevor
Day School Students’ Entrepreneurship Raises $8,500
for Tsunami Relief
The bazaar is the culmination
of a unique 3-month entrepreneurship learning experience whose
sophisticated concepts of cost margins, market pricing, sales
and marketing the students applied to address a charitable need. READ
MORE
OUTSTANDING TEACHERS
OF THE MONTH
May
2005
In 2003, Education Update began the tradition of honoring teachers
each month for their outstanding work on the “frontiers” of education.We
are now continuing the tradition which will culminate in a ceremony in June 2005
with Chancellor Joel Klein in attendance.
READ THIS MONTH'S HONOREES
COLLEGE & GRADUATE SCHOOLS
An Inside View into a Dean’s Advisory Council
By Adam Sugerman
In the fall of 1999, with a somewhat demoralized faculty, having been humiliated by their graduates’ poor performance on the New York State teacher certification test, the establishment of a Dean’s Advisory Council proved to be a breath of fresh air... READ MORE
The City College of
New York Hosts Einsteins
in the City
Conference
By Nazneen Malik
Students at the undergraduate,
masters, and PhD levels had the opportunity to present their
research during poster sessions and received positive feedback
from Nobel Laureates, Dr. Herbert Hauptman, and Dr. Jerome
Karle, who also acted as judges in the poster competition. READ
MORE
College
President’s
Series
Queens College: President James
L. Muyskens
By Joan Baum, Ph.D
The articulate, reflective and measured-toned
president is anything but complacent, however, as he carefully
considers Queens’s strengths as a 70-year-old liberal
arts college and his vision for the next few years. READ MORE
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Annual Blackman Lecture
at Teachers College Focuses on Downs & Alzheimer’s
By
Richard Kagan
Dr. Warren B. Zigman, a researcher
in the field of Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities,
spoke at the recent Leonard and Frances Blackman Lecture held
at Teachers College, Columbia University recently. READ MORE
FEATURE
Interview
With Senator Edward Kennedy:
National Center for Learning Disabilities
Awardee
By Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
The most important
pending legislation in this Congress is the Family Opportunity
Act. For more than five years, Senator Grassley and I have
been committed to this legislation to give parents of disabled
children the opportunity to purchase Medicaid coverage for
their children. READ MORE
Celebrating the 50th
Anniversary of the Salk Vaccine With Jonathan Salk
By Joan Baum,
Ph.D
The extraordinary success
of the Salk Vaccine, Jonathan Salk points out, and the campaign
launched by the March of Dimes, “dramatically” changed
perceptions of science and medicine. READ MORE
The
Ethics Guy: Doing Well By Doing Good
By Jacob M. Appel, J.D.
Conventional wisdom argues that ethical decision-making is exceedingly difficult—but
according to Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D, better known as “The Ethics Guy,” it
is actually quite easy. READ MORE
Former Prime Minister
John Major of the United Kingdom at Oxonian Society
By Pola
Rosen, Ed.D.
In
a serious vein the Minister advised that we must combine the
war on terror with the war on poverty. READ MORE
METROBEAT
Helping to Make Our
City Even Better
By Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
The truth is that money
is not the only way to give back; all of us have the ability
to give something just as valuable: our time. There are many
organizations and groups in—every community, in every
borough—looking for a helping hand. READ MORE
The Glory of Mother’s
Day
By Matilda Raffa Cuomo
It was springtime in ancient
Greece when the “Mother of the Gods,” Rhea, was
first celebrated. READ MORE
Assistant Principals:
Crisis Management to Instructional Expertise
By Jill Levy,
President, CSA
Recently, it has been my pleasure
to work with Assistant Principals through the Executive Leadership
Institute, and be exposed to their enthusiasm and intelligence.
READ MORE
Bill Would Guarantee
Education of
Incarcerated Youth
By Assemblyman Steven
Sanders
I am proud to be the prime
sponsor of legislation, Assembly bill 6009, which would amend
the State’s Education Law and the Executive Law to
guarantee the provision of educational services to youth
confined in detention facilities. READ MORE
MUSIC ART & DANCE
Folksbiene Presents
World-Class Klezmer Group Brave Old World
At the heart of “Song
of the Lodz Ghetto” (“Duz gezang fin geto Lodzh”)
are rare songs performed in the streets of the Lodz Ghetto
between 1940 and 1944, part of an oral legacy that was
preserved by ethnomusicologist Gila Flam in the late 1980’s.
READ MORE
Guarneri Quartet:
Michael Tree Continues to Branch Out Performing and Teaching
By
Joan Baum Ph.D
It’s relatively
rare that famous musical artists credit their audiences
and students for helping to educate them, but then Michael
Tree seems to be an unusually
humble and gracious musician. READ MORE
Theater
Reviews
Bad Tots Plot: Schockheaded
Peter
By
Jan Aaron
In Shockheaded Peter
at the Little Shubert badly behaved Victorian tots come
to nasty ends. READ MORE
Wild Sendak Show
at the Jewish Museum
By Jan Aaron
Original drawings, happy,
sad and introspective are on display as are preliminary
sketches, artwork for posters, theater and opera sets,
and costumes created from Sendak designs. READ MORE
Violinist Forges
New Paths in Music
By Joan Baum, Ph.D
The
group will strive for “broad appeal and varied
programming,” for example, and audiences will
see and hear a standard chamber orchestra, in addition
to fine instrumentalists playing solo and in quartet.
READ MORE
MEDICAL UPDATE
Breakthrough
for Kids with Epilepsy:
Surgery Reduces Seizures
and Increases IQ
A study on 50 preschool-aged
children with epilepsy who underwent surgical treatment
showed significant improvements on overall cognitive development
and left many seizure-free. READ MORE
The Case for State-Funded
Stem Cell Research
By New Jersey Acting
Governor Richard J. Codey
As a society and a government,
we have an obligation to help those among us who are suffering.
READ
MORE
CAREERS
Staci Hatch, Pilot for
Jet Blue
By Michelle DeSarbo
After working as an instructor
at a the C-21 located in Biloxi, Mississippi, the Columbus,
Georgia native left the military and began working as an
Airbus First Officer with US Airways. READ MORE
BOOKS
Choral Singer’s Handbook:
Best Manual for Amateurs & Pros
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Although the first two notes of his big hit “Red Roses for a Blue Lady,” which he wrote with long-time collaborator Sid Tepper, constitute a “descending minor second,” Roy C. Bennett modestly doesn’t offer up his own songs as examples in his Choral Singer’s Handbook, arguably the best such manual around for both amateurs and pros. READ MORE
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