Hillary Clinton Highlights
Special Education
NYU Child Study Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary At Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner
The NYU Child Study Center hosted its 10th Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street recently....MORE
The New York City Council
Who Are Our City Council Members & What Do They Do?
By Dr. Pola Rosen
There are 51 elected City Council Members, yet few of the 8 million citizens of New York City can name what they do or who they are....MORE
EDITORIAL, OP/ED & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Guest Editorial
Physician, Heal Thyself!
By Scott Noppe-Brandon
Ah, the golden days—the 50s, the 60s, even the early 70s—when the arts were firmly ensconced in the curriculum of public schools across our nation....MORE
OP/ED: CITY COMPTROLLER & PUBLIC ADVOCATE
Improving Career And Technical Education Programs In New York City
By William C. Thompson, Jr.& Betsy Gotbaum
In our information age, the skills gap is widening rapidly....MORE
Letters to the Editor - JANUARY 2008
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SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
Corporate Contributions To Education
Michael Steinhardt:
Legendary Financier Turned Philanthropist
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
What do you do when you’ve risen to the top of your profession and achieved undreamed-of financial success?...MORE
A Look At Progress Reports
By Ernest Logan, CSA President
The progress reports that were released last month by the Department of Education and which graded New York City Public Schools on a scale of A to F were borne of good intentions....MORE
National Yiddish Theatre–Folksbiene Honors Dr. Charlotte K. Frank & Sesame Workshop
The National Yiddish Theatre–Folkbiene honored the Sesame Workshop (the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street) and McGraw-Hill’s Dr. Charlotte K. Frank, one of the country’s leading authorities on education, at its annual cabaret dinner gala....MORE
Grace Outreach Helps High School Dropouts Get GED Degrees
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
In Zaukema Blanding’s math class, students are poring over their math homework with intense concentration, scrutinizing conversion tables and double-checking their fractions....MORE
Teachers Award Daily News Exec Top Honors
Diana Boschen (L), Director of Educational Programs and Partnerships at the Daily News, beams after receiving the Media Literacy Award......MORE
COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS
Driven By Landmark’s Mission: Chair Charles Manley & His Board Envision Great Outcomes For Landmark Students
By Mary Kukovich
The first thing you notice about Charles Manley is the way he listens with great care and intent....MORE
The Dean's Column
The Beautiful Magic Square
By Dr. Alfred S. Posamentier
In the spirit of the season, we offer you some recreation in mathematics.....MORE
Global Classrooms:
Expanding Its Reach in New Ways
By Ambassador William Luers
A priority for our society must certainly be to prepare young Americans to understand the world in which we live, the threats to our globe and the uncanny richness and variety of the human experience across nations....MORE
BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Children at Risk: Communities of Caring Help Get it Right from the Start
By Margot Hammond, Director,
Bank Street Center For Early Childhood Professionals
Earlier this year I was facilitating a group on teaching writing in a high needs school in an urban district....MORE
NYU Steinhardt Launches Policy Series on Gender and Education
NYU Steinhardt recently launched a three part policy breakfast series devoted to gender and education and exploring the implications for policy and practice....MORE
St. John’s Falls To Virginia Tech In Aeropostale Holiday Festival Tournament, 54-48
By Richard Kagan
With seven freshmen playing at Madison Square Garden, considered by basketball brethren as the “mecca of college basketball”—the moment had to be somewhat intimidating....MORE
Disturbing Decline in Minority Enrollment at Law Schools
A new Web site created by Columbia Law School documents a disturbing drop in enrollment by African-American and Mexican-American students in America’s law schools....MORE
SPECIAL EDUCATION
From the NYU CHILD STUDY CENTER: ASK THE EXPERT
About Kids Who Don’t Like Sports
By Glenn S. Hirsch, M.D.
More than 30 million children and adolescents in the United States participate in group or individual sports....MORE
Excessive Tantrums In Preschoolers May Indicate Serious Mental Health Problems
By Jim Dryden
Certain types of tantrums in preschoolers may be a sign of serious emotional or behavioral problems, according to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis....MORE
Charles & Helen Schwab Foundation
Selects Transition Partners
GreatSchools and Professor Garfield Foundation to Inherit Learning Disability (LD)-Focused Web Content
The Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation announced today its intention to merge its award winning Schwab Learning websites with two nonprofit organizations, selected from an invitation only review process, to continue operations for SchwabLearning.org, dedicated to helping parents of children with learning and attention problems, and SparkTop.org, the first website designed exclusively
for 8—12 year olds who struggle with learning....MORE
Gov. Grants for Educators
Charter School Program (CSP): The purpose of the CSP is to increase national understanding of the charter school model and to expand the number of high quality charter schools available to students across the Nation by providing financial assistance for the planning, program design, and initial implementation of charter schools, and to evaluate the effects of charter schools, including their effects on students, student academic achievement, staff, and parents....MORE
Special Camp Fair On Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008
Parents and caregivers of children and teens with disabilities can plan ahead for summer with the wealth of information offered at the 23rd annual free Special Camp Fair on Saturday, January 26, 2008 from 11 AM to 3 PM. at the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, (entrance to Fair on Columbus Ave. near W. 60th St.) NYC....MORE
MetroBEAT
2007: A Year of Progress in Education, Quality of Life and Public Safety
By Mayor Michael Bloomberg
I think it’s fair to say that 2007 will be one for the record books....MORE
BOOKS
Alice McDermott Hits Homerun at Marymount
Manhattan College Writing Center
By Dr. Pola Rosen
“Somewhere in the Bronx, only 20 minutes or so from the cemetery,” read Lewis Burke Frumkes, director of Marymount Manhattan College’s much praised writing center the other night to a packed house....MORE
Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations
By H. Harris Healy, III, President, Logos Bookstore
A new year is a time for one to do something new....MORE
Each Book Is Unique—A Gem—and Precious To Learning!
By Selene Vasquez
The youngest of the highly gifted Gratch sisters, Velma longs to be special in her own right....MORE
CHILDREN"S CORNER
From the Superintendent's Office
The Benefits of Learning
By Dr. Carole G. Hankin with Randi T. Sachs
We heard it said recently, that if a person speaks only one language, you can bet that language is English and the person is American....MORE
CAREERS
Dramatic Success in the World of Fashion: Marc Daniel
By Alberto Cepeda
While individuals who possess linguistic or logical-mathematical intelligence go onto successful careers in medicine, law or education, there are other kinds of intelligences that may not be reinforced through a high school curriculum but may lead to a successful alternative career....MORE
MEDICAL UPDATE
Exercise Testing May Help Predict Seriousness of Mitral Regurgitation
In as many as one in five people over age 55, when the heart contracts to send blood around the body, some degree of backward leakage occurs across the mitral valve, a condition known as mitral regurgitation (MR)....MORE
Edward M. Cooney to Receive Award for Child Nutrition
The 2008 Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award for Child Nutrition will be awarded to a leader who has spent over thirty-five years combating hunger in the U.S. and internationally....MORE
Winter Walking Tips From Mount Sinai Medical Experts
Winter is here and with the first snow and ice having already hit the ground, it would seem a good time to review some basic tips on how to walk on slippery surfaces to help pedestrians avoid injuries....MORE
MUSIC, ART & DANCE
National Dance Institute—“Dancing Through Life”
By Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D.
“5-6-7-8—Lift your knees! —Higher! — Higher! —Look at the audience! —Now Smile!”...MORE
Director Dale Lewis Celebrates 25 Years
at Usdan & Usdan Celebrates 40
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Over the years, each summer, more than 50,000 youngsters, ages 6-18, approximately 1,600 a day, now—some from as far away as NJ, Riverhead and Westchester County—know that when their air-conditioned chartered buses hit Exit 49N, of the L.I.E., they’re just minutes away from a wonderland in the woods that Time Magazine called “one of America’s most unique camps.”...MORE
School For Strings Continues To Vibrate As Suzuki-Based Music School
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Though it’s been a few years since Charles Osgood featured The School for Strings (SFS) on CBS, nothing’s changed at this jewel of a children’s music school....MORE
Sarah Johnson Brings New Musical Perspectives to Carnegie Hall
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Only eight months into her new job as Director of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall (WMI), Sarah Johnson, full of energy and excitement about implementing plans for the 2008-9 season—“I wish I could say more right now but…” nonetheless, waiting for final decisions to be made, is eager at least to identify now some areas of interest....MORE
MUSEUMS AS EDUCATORS
Museum Educators Enjoy Evening At American Museum Of Natural History
By Jan Aaron
It would be impossible for the estimated 500 educators who attended the recent Educator’s Evening at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) to come away without feeling excitement for classroom possibilities of the new exhibition Water: H²O=Life....MORE |