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 VIDEO
New-York Historical Society Embarks on a New Era Dr. Louise Mirrer, President and CEO of the New-York Historical Society, along with Dr. Sharon Dunn, Vice President of Education for the New-York Historical Society is interviewed by Education Update publisher Dr. Pola Rosen....WATCH VIDEO
Joyce Cowin — Philanthropist and Innovator Joyce Cowin, philanthropist and member of the Board of Trustees of Teachers College, speaks to Education Update Publisher Dr. Pola Rosen about her philanthropic efforts and her work implementing a financial literacy program for all students in New York State....WATCH VIDEO
The Feminist Press Holds Literary Event in Easthampton By Dr. Pola Rosen and Jennifer MacGregor The wide expanse of manicured green lawn replete with tent, cocktails and fine food served as the backdrop for literary women to present their latest works and thoughts. Orchestrated by attorney and Feminist Press Board Chair Rebecca Seawright and hostess Flora Schnall....READ MORE
After College, How About A Fulbright? What Will You Do After Graduation? Education Update publisher Dr. Pola Rosen interviews Rachel Gellert, a senior at NYU who hopes to be awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Malaysia and Sam Koplewicz, who just returned from a Fulbright in Croatia...WATCH VIDEO
The Rockefeller University: High School Students Achieve in Science Education Update visits Rockefeller University's SURF & Science Outreach Poster Session. Interviews include Emily Harms, Associate Dean & SURF Director, Ted Scovell, Science Outreach Director, & Dr. Gunter Blobel, Nobel Laureate in Medicine & Physiology....WATCH VIDEO
Exclusive Churchill Materials in New York City An exclusive showing of hundreds of Winston Churchill papers called The Power of Words, is at the Pierpont Morgan Library from June 8 to mid September. Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill archives at Churchill College in Cambridge, England, chose from the 2,000 boxes of materials Churchill preservede....WATCH VIDEO
American Educator's Gift to Israeli High School By Vicki Cobb Dr. Charlotte K. Frank, Chair of the Executive Committee of the America-Israel Friendship League unveils the Frank Aerospace Center at an Israeli high school. Education Update Senior Reporter Vicki Cobb is on location for the dedication in Arad, Israel....WATCH VIDEO
Occupy Wall Street:
Voices of the Students By Elise Grace & Dr. Pola Rosen Occupy Wall Street’s protesters have been unstoppable in voicing their opinions for a little over a month now. Most of them have been living in Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan, just steps from Wall Street.....WATCH VIDEO & READ ARTICLE
Dr. Jacob Appel, Bioethicist By Sybil Maimin Jacob Appel is a busy man: A bioethicist, fiction writer, advocate and teacher, he has amassed numerous degrees, awards and accolades. His academic achievements include a B.A. and M.A. from Brown, an M.A. and M.Phil from Columbia, an M.D. from Columbia’s College of Physicians....WATCH VIDEO & READ ARTICLE
Dr. V. Darleen Opfer, Director of RAND Education By Vicki Cobb An interview with Dr. V. Darleen Opfer, Director of RAND Education and Distinguished Chair in Education Policy. Senior reporter Vicki Cobb interviews Dr. Opfer about merit pay and the state of education in the US from the 2011 WISE Summit, on location in Doha, Qatar.....WATCH VIDEO
An Interview with Dr. Tyler Tingley & Dr. Robert “Skip” Mattoon,
Co-Heads of Avenues: The World School
An Interview with Dr. Scott E. Evenbeck, Founding President of
CUNY's New Community College
OUTSTANDING EDUCATORS OF THE YEAR 2011
Maya Soetoro-Ng Speaks at Teachers College
An Interview with Dr. Jamshed Bharucha,
the Future President of The Cooper Union
An Interview with President Staiano-Coico of the City College of New York
An Interview with Acting Dean Robert Greenberg of Hunter College
An Interview with Dr. Harold Koplewicz of the Child Mind Institute
Understanding Factors Affecting the Academic Achievement of Chinese-American Students
Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Visits City College of New York
NYS Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch Discusses Race To The Top
EDUCATION UPDATE ON LOCATION IN DOHA, QATAR
Dr. J. Michael Adams, President Of Fairleigh-Dickinson University Discusses The Urgent Need For Educators To Teach New Skills For The 21st Century At The World Innovation Summit For Education (WISE) In Doha, Qatar
EDUCATION UPDATE ON LOCATION IN DOHA, QATAR
Bill Fowler, Director of Global Education for Cisco Systems Discusses Arab Education Initiatives at the 2010 World Innovation Summit for Education (Wise) In Doha, Qatar
Understanding Factors Affecting the Academic Achievement of Chinese-American Students
Nobel Prize Winner Mario Vargas Llosa Visits City College of New York
NYS Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch Discusses Race To The Top
Policy Discussion at Teachers College, Columbia University, with Professor Geoffrey Whitty, Director of the Institute of Education at the University of London
An Interview with President Staiano-Coico of the City College of New York
An Interview with Acting Dean Robert Greenberg of Hunter College
An Interview with Dr. Harold Koplewicz of the Child Mind Institute
CUNY VOTES
GRACE OUTREACH EDUCATION FORUM
A NEW JOURNALISM INITIATIVE
Education Update Launches Innovative Middle School Journalism Initiative By Adam Sugerman
In September, the staff of Education Update launched the Middle School Journalism Initiative with students from two inner-city public schools: The Young Women’s Leadership School in Harlem and Public School 169, a school for special-needs children, on the Upper East Side....READ MORE
THE EDUCATION UPDATE MIDDLE SCHOOL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE
THE EDUCATION UPDATE MIDDLE SCHOOL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE CELEBRATES THE PUBLICATION OF P.S. 169'S KENNEDY KIDS NEWS
THE EDUCATION UPDATE Middle School Journalism Initiative BRINGS STUDENTS FROM THE YOUNG WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SCHOOL OF HARLEM TO visit The headquarters of McGraw-Hill in New York City
Education Update's Middle School Journalism Initiative visits with New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein for a press conference
Distinguished Leaders in Education Outstanding Educators of the Year 2009 Awards Ceremony By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
And you thought Thanksgiving was only in November and that only Plymouth rocked. Not so, to judge from the outpouring of tributes at Education Update’s seventh Outstanding Educators of the Year Awards Breakfast Ceremony at the Harvard Club recently. It was a celebratory event full of thanks, given by those presenting the awards and those receiving them....READ MORE
Outstanding Educators of the Year 2007
Honored at the Harvard Club By Sybil Maimin It was a great day for education in New York as the city’s power elite in the world of learning came to the Harvard Club to help Education Update honor 22 outstanding public school administrators and teachers and present its 2007 Distinguished Leader in Education award to George Weiss, founder of “Say Yes to Education.” READ MORE
Congratulatory Letters from Politicians The following politicians sent their congratulatory letters: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Chancellor Joel I. Klein READ LETTERS
Celebrating Outstanding Teachers of the Year 2004 by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
In only its second year the annual Outstanding Teachers of the Year Awards breakfast ceremony, conceived and inaugurated by Education Update (EU) with the generous assistance of well known corporate and education foundation sponsors, seemed like a long-time, well-established event....READ MORE
Making History: Honoring Outstanding Teachers in New York City Public Schools to Become Annual Event The Department of Education, as the Board of Education is now known, is over 100 years old. During that time, the pendulum has swung from centralization to decentralization and back, from teaching reading via phonics to the whole word approach and now back to phonics again, from bilingual education to immersion and back....READ MORE