COVER STORIES
A Therapeutic Mecca: The McCarton School
by Jocelyn K. Egyes
Sitting in Dr. Cecelia McCarton's office there is no doubt
that her passion is children. Kermit the Frog and a teddy
bear sit side by side on a bookshelf while dozens of other
toys line her office. But it's a special kind of child that
warms the heart of this pediatrician, it's "children who are
different" says McCarton, her blue eyes passionately
sparkling as she speaks of 'her' children. READ
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McCarton School Parent Shares Views
One parent who sees the learning first hand is Noam Spanier.
His 6-year-old daughter Shira has been with the program...
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CAREERS
Lewis Frumkes, Director,
Writing Center, Marymount Manhattan College
by Dorothy Davis
Lewis Burke Frumkes, who right after graduation worked on
Wall Street, is now the Director of The Writing Center at
Marymount Manhattan College. READ
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NEW JERSEY NEWS
New Section!
$1.8 Million for Blended Learning in NJ College
by Sebastian
Vasta, Ed.D.
A five-year grant from the United States Department of Education
is allowing New Jersey's largest community college to accelerate
its goal of infusing technology... READ
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What You Need To Know About Managing Credit Cards
by Patricia Flaherty McNeilly, M.B.A., Financial Advisor
Teens are ringing up too much debt too fast, with all the related
problems-impulse buying, overspent budgets, and bad credit.
What's the solution? READ
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McGreevey to Highlight Reforms that Support
Great Teachers
Recognizing that providing our children with the skills to
compete in the 21st century economy means supporting great
teachers and high teacher quality. READ
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Rutgers University Teaches RESPECT to Students
by Steven Dranoff, Ph.D. & Wanda Dobrich,
Ph.D.
American schools are struggling with a challenge to educate
students not only academically, but also to build character
in a climate of social upheaval. With shrinking resources...
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EDITORIALS
Global Education in Our
Schools
by Stuart Dunn
Recently, Dr. John Brademas, former Congressman and President
Emeritus of NYU, addressed The Ralph Bunche Institute for
International Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. READ
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SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
High School Youth Ambassadors
Lead the Way
by Jocelyn K. Egyes
Happy chatter of friendship flows through the room. Smiles
and laughter are constant throughout the conversation.
Looking around one would think this young group of... READ
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Council
of School Supervisors & Administrators
by Jill Levy, President, CSA
It is 14 years since I began working in CSA's Supervisory Support
Program as an intervener, but this year, more than any other,
has wrought so many changes that it has brought... READ
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How Do We Address The Reading Crisis
In America?
by Dr. Bill Blokker & Mitchell Levine
According to a recent report of the National Assessment of
Educational Progress (NAEP), there are over 33 million K--12
students reading at least two grades below level-over two thirds
of... READ
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Profiles in Education:
Prof. David Elliot, NYU
by Joan Baum,
Ph.D.
What do music educators do? The sweet tenor voice hardly betrays
the insistent author of Music Matters, Dr. David Elliott's
1995 declaration of "paraxial philosophy," which
he... READ
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The Private Sector Helps CCNY to help the
Public Schools
by
Alfred S. Posamentier, Ph.D.
It is by now no secret that we have a national crisis in the
teaching of mathematics in our urban schools. What is news
is that the private sector is coming to the rescue! READ
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PS 77 Learns About International Year of Freshwater
by Tom
Kertes
This was truly a case of "Everything you wanted to know
about water but were afraid to ask." READ
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Looking for Scapegoats
by Randi Weingarten, President, UFT
During recent hearings before the City Council, I started to
wonder what school system Council Education Chair Eva Moskowitz
and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein were talking about. READ
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Win Free Movie Tickets: Where is this Statue?
Soon after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, the
Union League Club, a Republican organization founded two
years earlier to promote good government, commissioned... READ
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UN/USA: Keeping Students Active in Global Issues
by Michelle
Accorso
Currently implemented in five cities across the United States,
including New York, Houston, Tampa, Los Angeles and Chicago,
Model U.N./Global Classrooms is continuing full-force in its...
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COLLEGES
CCNY Receives Record Grant
from Petrie Foundation to Boost Math Education
by Adam W. Sugerman
The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation has donated nearly
$3.7 million to The City College of New York for the advancement
of mathematics education. It is the largest foundation...
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Martha Nussbaum Presents Rudin Lecture at Marymount Manhattan
College
Marymount Manhattan College (MMC) recently hosted the Jack & Lewis
Rudin Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program, featuring Dr.
Martha Nussbaum, in the Theresa Lang Theatre at the College,
located at 221 East 71st Street. READ
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So You Want To Be An English Major?
by Sarah N. Lynch
For senior Regina Udler, an English-computer science double
major at Barnard College, it all began with Dr. Seuss. READ
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MEDICAL UPDATE
AAAS
Urges United Nations to Endorse Cloning for Research Purposes
AAAS, the world's largest general science society, urged
the United Nations to support embryonic cloning for research
or "therapeutic" purposes,
but ban all efforts to use cloning for human reproduction.
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Children's
Hospital that Wall Street Built
Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian,
the only children's hospital in Manhattan and one of the
largest in the country, opened its doors recently. READ
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NYU School of Medicine Faculty Member
Receives France's Highest Scientific Honor
The French Academy of Sciences selected Dr. David Sabatini
as the recipient of its highest honor for 2003, the Grande
Medaille D'Or (the Grand Gold Medal), in recognition of his
scientific contributions to Cell Biology. READ
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
Children's
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Dr. Toy Presents-Best Holiday Gifts
Wish List
by Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D., (Dr.
Toy)
This is the time of year you want to begin to find those special
play products for children. These products combine learning
and fun plus they are unique and interesting. They will provide
hours... READ
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Holiday Fun at NY Botanical Garden:
Gingerbread Adventures
Holiday Train Show
Twinkling lights, towering evergreens, a miniature New York
made from plants glowing in the historic Enid A. Haupt Conservatory,
and topiary bunnies with mittens and scarves baking... READ
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Letting Little Hands Reach Out
by Dr. Carole G. Hankin with
Randi T. Sachs
I'm in the very best stage of parenting: It's called grandparenting.
My three children have given me seven grandchildren all under
the age of seven, and most are under the age of three. READ
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BOOKS
Magda's
Daughter:
A Hidden Child's Journey Home by Evi Blaikie
Reviewed by Merri Rosenberg
There are as many stories of the Holocaust as there are survivors.
In recent years, there has been increasing recognition that
such stories need to embrace the wider spectrum... READ
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Opening Windows of Science at the Harlem Society
by Jocelyn
K. Egyes
Every morning over the summer 16 year old Sobella Quezada woke
up at 7 am at her home in the South Bronx to get ready for
work. After a 40 minute subway commute, Quezada arrived...
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Quirky
Kids:
Understanding & Helping
Your Child
Who Doesn't Fit In
Reviewed by Merri Rosenberg
I envy those lucky Boston parents, who have easy access to
Drs. Perri Klass and Eileen Costello as their children's pediatricians.
My late father was a pediatrician, and I love my children's...
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MUSIC, ART & DANCE
Adolphe
Sax & the
Saxophone
by Mr. Rodney J.Croft
Adolphe Sax, born in November 1814 in Dinant on the river
Meuse in Belgium, became a prolific inventor whose inventions
included the saxophone, patented in Paris in 1846. READ
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Rockefeller U's Precollege Science Education Program for K-12
Teachers
Science teachers in public, private, or parochial schools in
the tri-state area are encouraged to apply to be a Rockefeller
University Outreach Teacher Fellow. READ
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The Rossini Festival in Pesaro
by Irving Spitz
An operatic extravaganza on the Adriatic
Pesaro, a delightful city on the Adriatic coast, is the birthplace
of Gioachino Rossini. Since 1980 it has hosted an annual festival
devoted to the production of the operas of its illustrious...
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METROBEAT
"Bright
Lights, Big City"
by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
All over town this fall, it's lights-camera-and action,
with more than 30 feature films and prime time television
programs in production in New York City. In fact, earlier
this month, the... READ
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Give the Gift of Reading:
Reading Reform Begins at Home
by Matilda Raffa Cuomo and Susan
J. Moesker
In any given New York City classroom, when children sit at
desks with textbooks open, how many of them actually understand
the words printed on the page? READ
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"Implementing" the
CFE Decision
by Assemblyman Steven Sanders
When the State's highest court, the Court of Appeals, issued
its landmark ruling in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE)
case last June, the Legislature and Governor were... READ
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MOVIES AND THEATER
"Lady Next Door" Opens
Folksbiene's 89th Season
by Jan Aaron
A tale of 20th century immigrants, performed first in 1916,
gets the forever-young Folksbiene Yiddish Theater's 89th
consecutive season off to a great start with... READ
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Looney
Tunes:
Back in Action & The
Barbarian Invasions
by Jan Aaron
For holiday filmgoers who want to take the kids out or get
in touch with their inner child, there's Warner Bros. Looney
Tunes: Back in Action, a blend of live-action and animation.
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Profile:
Zalmen Mlotek & the
Yiddish Theater
by Joanna Leefer
In the early 20th century, New York City was the host to two
dozen Yiddish Theaters troupes entertaining more than two million
people. As Jewish immigrants assimilated and moved out... READ
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No Need for Tears
by Joan
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HOMESCHOOLING
Distance Learning Profile:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Independent Study High School
by Mitchell Levine
Distance education has come along way since the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln Independent Study High School's inception
in 1929. READ
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Distance Learning Profile:
Houston Independent School District's Virtual School
by Mitchell Levine
The Houston Independent School District may be in fact the
geographically largest of Texas' brick-and-mortar school systems,
but that didn't stop it from developing a virtual education...
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TECHNOLOGY
Product Review:
E&B Company's Slipper and
Flipper PDA Cases
by Mitchell
Levine
A PDA in the year 2003 is a remarkable piece of technology:
once you have one, it's hard to believe you ever got along
without it. And increasingly, schools in our area are agreeing.
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Product Review:
Innovative's LCD Arms
by Mitchell Levine
The benefits of flat panel screens are subtle, but they're
there. One of the biggest obstacles to technology deployment,
especially in the schools that need it most, is space. READ
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Product Review:
PhonicsTutor Frequent Words
by Mitchell Levine
One thing no one in education seems to agree on is reading
methodology. A confusing profligation of approaches have been
suggested with no end in sight. A point of general agreement,
it... READ
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Product Review:
Radtech's ScreensavRz
by Mitchell Levine
Today's mobile computers pack a lot of power and multimedia
performance into their compact chassis. But there's a price
to pay for those streamlined form factors. READ
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Product Review:
Sharp Actius RD20
by Mitchell Levine
We've reviewed an awful lot of laptops in this section over
the last few years; unsurprising, as it's common knowledge
that our school systems are gearing up to make a full deployment... READ
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