COVER STORIES

Corporate Contributions to Education 2007:
NY Life Gives CCNY $10 Million to Expand Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
It’s not every poor kid from the city who grows up to be U.S. Secretary of State...READ MORE

A Colin Powell Fellow Shares Insights
By Liza Young
Therese Collins, originally from the West Indies, is a 22-year-old Colin Powell fellow...READ MORE

Nutrition & Schools: A 2007 Plan
It’s Fresh, Lo-Fat and Delicious, With DOE Chef Jorge Collazo at the Helm
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Parents, If your children haven’t told you about nutritious, good-looking bagel, salad and pasta bars in their school cafeterias, you may want to get in touch with the DOE’s Department of School Food (inelegantly called in a former life the NYC Department of Education’s Office of School Food & Nutrition Services)...READ MORE

School Nutrition in New Jersey
By Lisa K. Winkler
School districts nationwide are scrambling to improve student health and nutrition, many in response to state mandates and corporate incentives...READ MORE

MUSIC, ART & DANCE

Music In The Air: Interview With Paul Ash, President Of Sam Ash Music Stores
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
The soft spoken, 77 year old who never learned to play an instrument but who heads, arguably, the best known chain music store in the country, named for his father Sam Ash, is eager to make sure that his mother, Rose, gets full credit for having suggested, 82 years ago that she and Sam buy a store. Before that, Sam had been a fabric cutter and a bandleader, Rose a bookkeeper...READ MORE

The Salzburg Festival
Mozart’s best known Operatic Masterpieces
By Irving Spitz
For the first and probably last time, the recent Salzburg festival traversed Mozart’s full operatic oeuvre...READ MORE

Movie Review:
Spider Writer: Charlotte’s Web
By Jan Aaron
Charlo tte’s Web, the beloved 1952 novel by E. B. White about friendship and salvation has been turned into a movie full of humor and wonder...READ MORE

SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS

The Dean's Column:
How to Find the Square Root –Without a Calculator!
By Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D..
Why would anyone want to find the square root of a number without using a calculator...READ MORE

Profiles in Education:
Lawrence Mandell, President & CEO, United Way of NY Targets Education
By Sybil Maimin
Lawrence Mandell, president and CEO of United Way of New York City, has a master’s degree in social work...READ MORE

“Say Yes to Education” Thrives in P.S. 57
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
The front door of P.S. 57 on 115th Street is entirely obscured by steel girders these days, but the real support is going on inside this East Harlem building, where “Say Yes to Education”, the brainchild of hedge fund guru George Weiss, has promised one lucky class of students a free college education if they graduate from high school...READ MORE

My Internship at Education Update
By Justine Rivera
Currently, I am a senior in the “47” American Sign Language & English Secondary School. Due to the small number of classes I was taking, I asked my counselor if she could help me find a job or program in which to participate...READ MORE

January In History
Compiled by Chris Rowan
Since ancient times, the beginning of a new year has been celebrated as a time to mark the beginning of the harvest..READ MORE

SPECIAL EDUCATION

From the NYU Child Study Center: Ask the Expert
How Can I Raise Successful Children?
By Glenn S. Hirsch, M.D.
As I sat with my family over the holidays holding my newest grandchild, I began to reflect on the things my wife and I did right, and wrong, in bringing up our children...READ MORE

Lindamood-Bell Offers Strategies & Hope for Children Who Struggle with Literacy
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
The story reads like a feel-good movie script: In 1998, the high poverty and heavily minority school district of Pueblo, Colorado began providing intensive remedial reading instruction to its 4,300 children...READ MORE

NYU Child Advocacy Award Dinner Raises Over $6.5 Million to Battle Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Disorders
The NYU Child Study Center hosted its Ninth Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner recently at Cipriani 42nd Street honoring philanthropists Stanley and Fiona Druckenmiller for their deep commitment to organizations and programs that foster the success and well being of New York’s children...READ MORE

GUEST COMMENTARY & LETTERS

Guest Commentary:
“Racial Balance” Programs: The New Racism
By Debi Ghate
Earlier this month the Supreme Court heard arguments by two public school boards seeking its sanction of “racial balance” programs...READ MORE

COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS

Landmark College:
A “Bridge Semester” for College Students with Executive Function Disorder
By Christina Herbert & Benjamin L. Mitchell
When Landmark opened its doors in the fall of 1985, the diagnosis of AD/HD was just barely coming into use...READ MORE 

Bank Street College:
Museum Education Students Collaborate with Guggenheim on Smith Retrospective
By Barbara Loecher
Spiraling up the ramp and into the tower galleries of the Guggenheim Museum last winter and spring, an exhibition of more than 120 welded metal sculptures by pioneering American artist David Smith gave visitors a unique sense of how complex and diverse, yet interconnected, his work is...READ MORE

CHILDREN'S CORNER

From the Superintendent’s Seat:
Planning for Travel with the Children
By Dr. Carole G. Hankin with Randi T. Sachs
Over the past ten years my immediate family (my husband, our three children, and their spouses) has grown with the addition of nine grandchildren...READ MORE

BOOKS

Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations
By H. Harris Healy, III
As a new year begins, it is a good time to remind people of the monthly activities at Logos Bookstore. One in particular is the Kill Your TV Reading Group (KYTV) which meets the first Wednesday of every month...READ MORE

Review of Best Practices In Gifted Education:
An Evidence-Based Guide
By Merri Rosenberg
Figuring out how to best meet the needs of gifted children, whether at home or at school, can be a challenge for even the most dedicated parent and teacher...READ MORE

CHILDREN'S BOOK REVIEWS

Do Re Mi: If You Can Read Music, Thank Guido d’Arezzo
Reviewed By Susan L. Roth
Imagine a world in which music belonged only in the present tense...READ MORE

Have a Happy New Year With One Of The Happiest Of Joys...READING!
Reviewed By Selene Vasquez
Max’s older brothers are serious coin and stamp collectors whereas Max inexplicably decides to accumulate words!..READ MORE

METROBEAT

A Split Decision For Our Kids
By Randi Weingarten
This month brought both a real high and a low for public school students...READ MORE

Joannie Danielides Receives STAR Award  
Joannie Danielides, President and Founder of Danielides Communications, Inc., recently received the New York Women’s Agenda Star Award...READ MORE

MEDICAL UPDATE

Profiles in Medicine:
Dr. Jane Aronson
By Lisa K. Winkler
For Jane Aronson, being an infectious disease specialist isn’t enough...READ MORE

An Athlete’s Worst Nightmare: Tearing the ACL
By Ty Endean, D.O.
Bryce was playing the game of his life in his senior season…his team was winning in the fourth quarter when he ran across the middle of the field catching a pass only to be hit hard by the safety and the cornerback...READ MORE