Eighth Anniversary Celebration!
by Pola Rosen, Ed.D.

I can relate to the reverberations of Martin Luther King’s, “I have a dream.” I too had a dream, a vision of bringing education news to all people in order to help them make better decisions about their children’s education as well as their own. Coming from an immigrant family myself, education was revered as the gateway not only to knowledge but to breaking out of the confines of a circumscribed life to one filled with unimagined adventures, mysterious roads and paths untraveled. Without experience as a publisher or a businesswoman, I decided to take the plunge and learn while doing.

The overwhelming response to this newspaper from people in all parts of New York City has been heart-warming. We have provided unique information for parents of special education children; for teachers these pages have provided information about successful programs that can be replicated; information about colleges as well as private and public schools have graced our pages; corporate outreach efforts, foundation news, grant information to school districts, and scholarship information for students have been utilized by 200,000 readers around NYC as well as 1.8 million monthly hits on our website. Our series have included presidents of universities, deans of education, medical school deans, profiles of outstanding educators and women and African-Americans shaping history.

Innovative ideas have included “Outstanding Teachers of the Month”, a monthly column called “So You’re Thinking of Majoring In…” career columns and the six major voices in education every month: the mayor, the chancellor, Former First Lady Matilda Cuomo, UFT President Randi Weingarten, CSA President Jill Levy, Assemblyman Steve Sanders (Chair of the Education Committee). We have been honored to also feature Secretary of Education Rod Paige, First Lady Laura Bush, College Board President Gasper Caperton and many other luminaries around the nation.

Education Update has been a passion and a dream realized. Thank you to our readers and to the constant, unwavering support of my husband, Dr. Herman Rosen and my three wonderful children, Adam, Rob and Heather.

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