COVER STORIES
“Alexander
Hamilton: The Man Who
Made
Modern America” at
NY Historical Society
By
Dorothy Davis
Education Update Publisher
Pola Rosen and I toured the blockbuster Alexander Hamilton
exhibit at the New-York Historical Society one recent morning
with James G. Basker, who was wearing his hat as its Project
Director. Under his other hats Dr. Basker is President of the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Ann Whitney
Olin Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University.
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Celebrate
New Cultures and Customs in the
New Year at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan!
Experience
Dora’s Latino
World This January By Visiting The Children’s Museum
of Manhattan, Where Fun And Educational Programs And Performances
Focus On International Culture and Customs!
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MORE
Hospitality Management
Excellence at
Cornell University
By
Nazneen Malik
The Cornell School of Hotel
Administration has one of the most comprehensive hospitality
management programs in the world. Founded in 1922 as the first
of its kind, the Hotel School has had a tremendous impact on
the development of the hospitality industry. READ
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SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
Guest Editorial
The Time is Here for True Fiscal
Equity
By Regina M. Eaton
Governor
George Pataki’s
2005 State of the State Address made it clear us that he
does not intend to cede school funding reform to the courts.
But the courts have spoken. Now it’s time to act. In
the coming weeks, Judge DeGrasse, the trial judge that heard
the Campaign for Fiscal Equity vs. New York State (CFE) case,
is expected to hand down a final court order to resolve the
lawsuit. READ
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Corporate
Contributions to Education
Interview
with Eugene Lang
By Nazneen Malik
“Everything that happens in life that is worth noting seems to be a coincidence,” muses
Eugene Lang, prominent businessman, and founder of the I Have A Dream Foundation
(IHAD). Indeed, fortune has favored the 85 year-old philanthropist but one must
recognize that his choices, ambitions, and persistent dedication to education
have played a significant role in shaping his life’s trajectory. READ
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Eugene
Lang’s Vision
Makes Dreams Come True
The Chairman of Newmark,
a leading commercial real estate firm, Jeffrey Gural, recently
offered to 40 first-graders who live in the
Elliott Houses,
a public housing development in Manhattan’s Chelsea
neighborhood, the most incredible gift of their young lives
at
P.S. 33 in
Chelsea. READ
MORE
Mercedes-Benz
Launches First Lab at
Automotive High School
By
Liza Young
The progress of the automotive
industry depends on the developments and insights of major
corporations, but to ensure continued success, the seeds of
growth in the industry must be planted at the educational level,
and as early as possible within the educational system.
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Outstanding
Teacher of the Year Shares Lesson Plan
Mrs. Sharon Weissbart, first
grade teacher at PS 111 in the Bronx and 2004 Education Update
Teacher of the Year, submitted a lesson plan that she and Ms.
Masucci, also a first grade teacher at PS 111, created for
their classes. READ MORE
Profiles
in Education:
An Interview With Ramon Cortines
By
Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
I was delighted to meet Ray
at his home in Pasadena, CA recently. Against the background
of classical music and a book-lined library, we discussed various
issues and trends in education over the years. Cortines was
the Chancellor of New York City schools from 1993 to 1995.
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Theodore
Kheel Receives Chancellor’s Medal
By Nazneen Malik
At
a recent gathering at the CUNY Graduate Center, prominent
labor lawyer and mediator, Theodore Kheel, was awarded
the prestigious Chancellor’s Medal
for his outstanding public service and continued commitment to education. READ
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Wallace
Foundation Funds New Report on
After-School Programs
By Sarah Ann Mockbee
After-school
programs have long been a staple in our communities and
experts agree that children who are engaged in meaningful
activities outside of school will benefit more than those
students who do not. But until recently, only the experts
were weighing in on just what is best for a child’s
out-of-school time, while the voices of students and parents
were not properly considered. READ MORE
OUTSTANDING TEACHERS OF
THE MONTH
Outstanding
Teachers of the Month-January 2005
Teachers are the backbone of our educational system. They richly
deserve the recognition that Education Update gives them. Congratulations
to this month's Outstanding Teachers of the Month in recognition
of the vital role they play in our childrens' lives.
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COLLEGE & GRADUATE SCHOOLS
Interview
with Barnard Professor Caryl Phillips
By Nazneen Malik
Recently, sixteen Barnard students returned from a ten-day trip to Ghana as
part of a senior seminar course entitled Literature of the Middle Passage,
the brainchild of award-winning author and Barnard English Professor, Caryl
Phillips. READ
MORE
President
Lois B.Defleur, SUNY Binghamton
Speaks On International
Ed
By Lois B. DeFleur
For many years, the United States has been a beacon
for international education. In 2003, nearly 600,000 students
from around the globe attended colleges and universities
in the U.S. However, this traffic has largely been one-way,
as that year, only 174,000 American students traveled abroad
for study—a number
that equals less than one half of one percent of American
college students. READ
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College
President’s
Series
President Regina S. Peruggi,
Kingsborough
Community College
By Joan Baum, Ph.d.
For Regina S. Peruggi, Kings-borough Community College’s new president,
and the first woman to hold the position in the college’s 40-year
history, the opportunity to come back to CUNY. READ
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METROBEAT
From ‘Infantilization’ to ‘Professionalization’
By
CSA President Jill Levy
Ensconced
in a conference room not too long ago with members of the
Teaching Commission and their invited guests, I was immediately
aware of the prospective power of the participants, not only
as individuals, but also of the group as a whole. The group
had the potential, as stated in its mission, “to raise
student performance by transforming the way in which America’s
public school teachers are recruited, rewarded, and retained.” READ
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How
to Make a Difference in
the New Year
By
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
January 2005 is National
Mentoring Month. According to the Mentoring Partnership of
New York, a coalition of non-profit organizations has developed
a major national initiative, in collaboration with the leading
broadcast and cable networks to create January National Mentoring
Month an annual, concentrated intense national and local media
activity combined with extensive community outreach. READ
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MUSIC, ART & DANCE
The
Making of a First Documentary
By
Joe Charap & Josh Koplewicz
The small crowd, braving
the cold winds of late October East Hampton, gazed at our industry
passes then up at our young scruffy faces, their eyes glazed
with a mix of envy and begrudged respect. We, two former New
York City prep-schoolers (Friends and Dalton), had gotten our
first film, a short-documentary entitled Pigeonmen, into the
Hamptons International Film Festival this October. READ
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The
Salzburg Festival Part 2
Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt:
Let’s Hear This Forgotten Masterpiece
More Often!
By Irving Spitz
One of the memorable highlights at the recent Salzburg
summer Festival was a performance of Die Tote Stadt (The
Dead City),
an opera composed by Eric Wolfgang Korngold. READ
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BOOKS
Excellence in Education:
The Making Of Great Schools By
Merri Rosenberg
Consider just a few
of these issues: safe schools, how to better integrate technology
into the curriculum, extending the school day and the school
year, how much homework is too much, figuring out successful
strategies to develop community-based schools, finding foreign
language and science teachers, managing gender disparities
in achievement and coping with testing. READ MORE
Ninety-Six And Too Busy
To Die
By Merri Rosenberg
Here’s
something that might very well inspire those students who are
currently enrolled in alternative high schools or similar programs.
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