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 Windward School Hosts Panel on Dyslexia
By Rich Monetti
The Windward School in White Plains hosted a dyslexia panel before an audience of parents, teachers and students and screened the HBO documentary, “The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia”. Among the subjects featured were some very high-profile dyslexics such as Richard Branson....READ MORESPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
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 THE ETHICS COLUMN:
The Dean and the Dolphins
By Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD
Psychiatrists from Mount Sinai’s medical school provided the gravitas and Israeli dolphins the entertainment this past June as the UJA-Federation of New York’s Mental Health Professionals Division honored Dennis S. Charney, the Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine....READ MORE
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 From STEM to STE(A)M: A New Initiative at Dwight School
Answering Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda's clarion call to make the connection between STEM and the arts, Dwight School is doing just that — and making that connection explicit through a new "From STEM to STE(A)M" initiative. To kick off this exciting program, Dwight School is hosting a signature event.....READ MORE 12 Tips for Using Twitter in the Classroom
By Starr Sackstein, NBCT
They're under desks. In hoodie front pouches. In giant purses, lurking in boots or even undercover in a binder.
Phones are out. They aren't supposed to be, but students are covertly examining Facebook, Twitter and other personal "non-school" media on school time....READ MORECOLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS
 Ike Reconsidered at Hunter College Symposium
By Valentina Cordero
The Roosevelt House Policy Institute at Hunter College recently held a conference called “Ike Reconsidered: Lessons from The Eisenhower Legacy for the 21st Century”. The project, organized in collaboration with the Eisenhower Foundation, not only focused on the current policy....READ MORE
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DISTINGUISHED LEADERS IN EDUCATION 2013
 Dr. Lisa S. Coico: President, The City College of NY
Dr. Lisa S. Coico, president of The City College of NY, is a nationally prominent educator and researcher in microbiology and immunology and former Provost and EVP of Academic Affairs at Temple University, is the 12th President of The City College of New York. A native of Brooklyn, President S. Coico earned a B.S.....READ MORE
OUTSTANDING EDUCATORS OF THE YEAR 2013 PRESENTERS
CAREERS FOR THE FUTURE
WOMEN SHAPING HISTORY 2013
 Joyce Cowin: Philanthropist
This is not a career, but rather a “calling” to make certain this great Country never suffers the effects of the 2008 financial debacle. In 2008, this fantastic country of ours was almost brought to its knees because of the Sub Prime Real Estate disaster!!!!!! When I read about the thousands upon thousands of good, honest, hard working people all across the country, more prominently on....READ MORE
 Dr. Christina Paxson:
President, Brown University
Like many people, I drew inspiration from my family members. My grandfather was an agronomy professor at the University of Tennessee, who did research on soil quality, soybeans and cowpeas. One of my uncles was an early computer scientist and director of Penn’s school of engineering. And, my mother went back to graduate....READ MORE Kate Hathaway:
Broadway Producer
While I loved my time as an actor, most recently in Steel Magnolias with Karen Ziemba, I felt that I wanted to get involved in theater in a broader way – to bring new projects to the stage. The best way to do that is to become a producer.
First, while I had the desire to become a producer, I had to learn how to go about it. Fortunately, I was....READ MORE Judith S. Kaye: Former Chief Judge of the State of New York
Maybe it’s what has driven me throughout my life: attaining the unattainable, not being negative, fierce determination to use my time and talents meaningfully.
What else would explain coming from rural Sullivan County, age 15, to Barnard College in the wilds of New York City, convinced that in the shadow....READ MORE  Jeanne Shaheen: U.S. Senator, NH
I was inspired to pursue a career in public service because I had a desire to make a difference. Growing up in the 1960’s, during the heart of the civil rights movement, I saw firsthand the opportunity to effect meaningful change. One of my first jobs was as a teacher at a newly integrated school in Mississippi, and I saw....READ MORE
 Dr. Judith Hochman: Author, Educator, Lecturer
My son had learning disabilities and, at the time, no one knew how to effectively remediate or even diagnose them. I had been a mainstream classroom teacher but decided to go to graduate school in an attempt to master my own anxiety by finding out more about his difficulties. I enrolled in Teachers College in the 1980’s and I was....READ MORE
 Elizabeth Shwal: WAVES '44, Barnard '51
Transcribed by Valentina Cordero
I went to Barnard on the GI Bill because I was out of the Navy after WWII. My rank was aviation machinist mate, AMM, 2C (second class). I was in for 33 months. I went in as soon as I was 20 - I had to be 20 to get in - and I came out when the president said it was time for the volunteers to get out. WAVES stands fo....READ MORESPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
 Dwight School Baseball Team Preps in Dominican Republic
By Richard Kagan
It’s baseball season again. While Major League Baseball clubs are “in the dog days” of spring training in Florida and Arizona, the present epicenter of the diamond is the Dominican Republic with the Quisqueyans sweeping their way to the 2013 World Baseball Classic championship....READ MORE
MUSEUMS AS EDUCATORS
New Media Art Showcase in NYC
By Sybil Maimin
We have all seen 24-hour video installations in department store windows, been mesmerized by bright dancing snowflakes on building facades and experienced surround-sound and four-wall film projections in dark rooms in museums....READ MORE
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Tragic Shooting in Connecticut
By Harold Koplewicz, MD
Weeks after the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, we still have no idea what might motivate a young man to open fire on first graders and the teachers trying desperately to save their students. We will probably never know. But as details slowly emerge about Adam Lanza and his family, we are getting glimpses....READ MORE
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 The World of the Sightless:
Dr. James Kutsch
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Arguably the grandest epic poem in the history of the English language, “Paradise Lost” (1651), was written when John Milton was blind. But the celestial light emanating from this iconic work only proves the deep truth that Milton expressed two years later in the essay....READ MORE
 A Proposal for Deaf Science Education
By Derek C. Braun, Ph.D.
We’ve seen a sudden increase and remarkable success in deaf scientists and physicians since 1980, including a MacArthur genius. This cannot be due to cochlear implants, because implantation in children was not widespread until the 1990s; most of the successful....READ MORE
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MEDICAL UPDATE
ColumbiaDoctors in the Heart of Midtown
By Mohammad Ibrar
Late January marked the official opening of ColumbiaDoctors Midtown, a state-of-the-art medical facility with more than 80 medical specialties and subspecialties ranging from Neurology and Dentistry to Cardiology and Orthopedics....READ MORE
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Review of ‘Living Desert’ by Dana Buckley
By Merri Rosenberg
I’ve never seen the allure of the desert. One of my good friends spends weeks at a time in Arizona, rhapsodic about the beauty of the landscape, the climate, the entire experience. As for me, give me the Atlantic Ocean and a South Florida beach any day when I need an escape from New York’s biting winters....READ MORE
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  National History Teacher of the Year 2012 - Joshua Bill
National History Teacher of the Year 2012 (Joshua Bill), selected by The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, held at the Frederick Douglas Academy in NYC. Featuring Caroline Kennedy, Dr. James Basker-President, The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and students of Joshua Bill (Eduardo Cruz and Maria Pettis)....WATCH VIDEOMUSEUMS AS EDUCATORS
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 Ann Tisch & YWLN Celebrate 6th Anniversary
In 1996, Ann and Andrew Tisch partnered with the New York City Board of Education to open The Young Women’s Leadership School (YWLS) of East Harlem — the first public all-girls school to open in the United States in 30 years. Their vision was to provide economically disadvantaged girls with a high-quality college preparatory....READ MORE
LAW & EDUCATION
 Cheating in School Should Not Be Tolerated
By Arthur Katz, Esq.
Recently, The New York Times printed a front-page article entitled “Stuyvesant Students Describe the How and the Why of Cheating.” Although it appears that large-scale cheating on important tests, such as Regents exams, are rare, the students interviewed for the article....READ MOREBOOKS
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Dwight School Opens New Athletic Center and Launches Model Community Partnership
‘No Place On Earth’: Astonishing New Holocaust Survival Tale
A Party of Historic Proportions: Teachers College Celebrates 125 Years
Higher Education, Museums, and Technology: the 21st Century Formula for Innovation
Laurie M. Tisch:
Nan J. Morrison: President & CEO, Council for Economic Education
Ellen Futter: President, American Museum of Natural History
Donated Computers Turn After Schoolers into Bloggers with a Cause
Dr. Rainu Kaushal: Director, Health Informatics Master of Science at Weill Cornell Medical College
Eminent String-Theorist Edward Witten Comes to Hunter College
Touro College of Pharmacy Students Travel to India to Run Health Camps in Poor Urban Communities
Education Update Interviews Patrick Anderson, Gold Medal Paralympic Winner
Education Leaders Joe and Carol Reich Honored by Sy Fliegel and CEI-PEA
HEAF Turns Underserved NYC Students Into College Grads with Dr. Fern Khan at Helm
