Colleges
Rally to Help Students in Louisiana
Helping Hurricane’s Victims
(Students) Get Back To Normal
By Dr Catherine Cook-Cottone
While Louisiana and Mississippi residents struggle to evacuate,
to relocate and—above all else, to survive—many
of the youngest among them face years of recovery from
a variety of traumas Hurricane Katrina has dispersed upon
them....READ MORE
CEO
Kurt Landgraf of Educational Testing Service (ETS) Helps
Students of Disaster
Staff of ETS’s San Antonio office are collecting money, food, and personal
hygiene items for the estimated 25,000 victims who have begun arriving at Kelly
Air Force Base and area schools. ETS President and CEO Kurt Landgraf also announced
the company will make a $100,000 corporate donation to the Hurricane Katrina
disaster relief effort....READ
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College
of Staten Island CUNY Opens Doors to “Katrina Students”
College of Staten Island President Dr. Marlene Springer announced that CSI
will admit immediately any students who had planned to attend colleges now
closed due to Hurricane Katrina....READ
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The
Mayor Sends Help
Doing Our Part to Aid the
Victims of Hurricane Katrina
By Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Four years ago, after 9/11, people across the country helped New York City
get back on its feet. Some came here to work with us in the recovery effort;
many, many more donated to relief organizations while staying in their home
communities and going about their daily lives....READ
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COLLECTED FEATURES
International
Youth Day at The United Nations
By Liza Young
With a boundless supply of ideas from adults regarding the education and future
of youth, it’s not often that voices of young people are heard in a public,
powerful forum. The gala opening of the photographic exhibit at International
Youth Day at the UN, “Chasing the Dream,” focused on eight students
from around the world who shared their innermost feelings via photographs and
writings....READ MORE
Photojournalist
Diego Goldberg Chases the Dream
By Pola Rosen Ed.D.
Diego Goldberg, an Argentinian, is a renowned photojournalist, one of the creators
of the UN photo exhibit, entitled “Chasing the Dream,” which includes
141 photos, chronicling the struggles and the hopes of eight youngsters from
Brazil, Cambodia, India, Jamaica, Uganda, Morocco and other nations....READ
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Guests
at the Event
Pictures
of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Roberta Flack , & More. VIEW
CCNY,
NASA & DoD Outreach Programs Train Young Scientists
from Middle School to College
By Dr. Robert R. Alfano
City College is the site of several major research centers, institutes and
a consortium that have placed CCNY at the forefront of photonics and laser
technologies research and development. Two of these are the NASA Center for
Optical Sensing and Imaging (NASA-COSI); and the DoD Center for Nanoscale Photonics
(DoD-CNP)....READ
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Languages
Reflections on Language
By Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D.
When I opened a package from Istanbul, I was flattered to learn that my two
most recent mathematics books were translated into Turkish. While I was clearly
familiar with the contents, I could not read a single word....READ
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Teaching
American Sign Language To Hearing Children
Developed for hearing children ages 3-11, SIGN-A-LOT is a DVD series where
American Sign Language vocabulary is woven into the storyline through an exciting,
entertaining world of animated characters, magical lands and playful child
performers....READ
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SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
A
Season of Hope Denied
By Randi Weingarten
The start of school is usually a season of hope as students, parents and educators
look forward to building on the gains of the previous school year. New York
City’s teachers certainly had reason to be hopeful because of statements
Mayor Bloomberg made at a town hall meeting just last month....READ
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Corporate
Contributions to Education
George “Vanilla” Weiss:
Say Yes to Education
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
“My kids.” The phrase recurs often as the founding member of SayYes
To Education starts talking about what his nationally known program has been
doing for inner-city youngsters over the years, and it seems possible the first
couple of times that he means his own family... READ MORE
Independent
Colleges and TIAA-CREF Offer Unique College Savings Plan
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
For sure, customers who can’t remember what TIAA CREF stands for—and
most can’t (for the record it’s: Teacher Insurance Annuity Association
/ College Retirement Equities Fund) but who regularly receive reports from
this 85-year old, 350 billion-dollar financial services company...READ
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Profile:
Susan Kent, Director & Chief, NY Public Library
By Joan Baum, Ph.D
It sounds apocryphal, but the new Director and Chief Executive of The Branch
Libraries for the New York Public Library (NYPL) swears it’s true, and
she beams in the retelling: there she was last year in LA, where, as City Librarian
for the Los Angeles Public Library...READ MORE
Profiles
in Education
Chris Whittle, CEO, Edison
Schools
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
At 58 Chris Whittle, communications entrepreneur, remains totally committed
to the project that has claimed his heart and head for the last 16 years—The
Edison Schools, a for-profit company he runs as CEO with Benno Schmidt, Chairman
of the Board, and that now boasts some remarkable numbers...READ
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More “Intelligent” Challenges
to Evolution
By Martha McCarthy, Ph.D.
Historically, several states barred public school instruction that conflicted
with the Genesis account of creation, and the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld
such a law in the famous Scopes “monkey trial.”...READ
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‘Song
of America’ Concert Tour to Kick Off Library of
Congress Road Show
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
What do you get when you bring together a pre-eminent historical scholar
and America’s leading baritone to design a program celebrating American
creativity?...READ MORE
The
Dean’s Math Column
Perfection in Mathematics
By Alfred S. Posamentier, Ph.D.
What is perfect in mathematics, a subject where most think everything is already
perfect? Over the years various authors have been found to name perfect squares,
perfect numbers, perfect rectangles, and perfect triangles....READ
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The
Cathedral School
The Cathedral School has been nurturing the hearts and minds of its students
since 1949. We are a co-educational, independent school serving families from
a variety of backgrounds. Featuring small classes and caring teachers, our “neighborhood” dimensions
make us a community in which each child is known well by many adults...READ
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Claremont
Preparatory School
Claremont Preparatory School is the first independent on-going school to open
in Manhattan in the last 50 years and the first nonsectarian K-8 school below
Canal Street....READ
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The
Greenwich House
The Greenwich House Preschool is the city’s first day-care program for
children. It opened at Greenwich House in 1920 and our tradition as caregiver
and educator of the city’s children continues today...READ
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GUEST EDITORIAL
The
Decade of Science at CUNY
By CUNY Chancellor, Matthew Goldstein
In his 2005 book, The World Is Flat, Thomas Friedman called “the
steady erosion of America’s scientific and engineering base” a “quiet
crisis.” Indeed, since 1990, U.S. bachelor’s degrees in engineering
have dropped by eight percent and degrees in math by 20 percent...READ
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METROBEAT
Improving
New York City’s Middle Schools
By Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Our Administration’s public school reforms are producing real results
for our students; we’re clearly moving in the right direction. The four-year
high school graduation rate, while still too low, is the highest it’s
been in 20 years...READ
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The
Heavy Hand of Autocracy
By CSA President Jill Levy
What does one call a governance structure or governing body that does not respect
dissent, discourse and the free flow of ideas and information? Several months
ago the media was bombarding the union with requests for access to Principals
and Assistant Principals in their schools without DOE orchestration....READ
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Double
Testing by State and City Must be Stopped
By Assemblyman Steven Sanders
Whatever one thinks of the frenzy of standardized testing brought on in part
by the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and regardless of one’s
view of high-stakes testing, almost everyone can agree that subjecting students
in the same grade to two sets of standardized tests is plain wrong....READ
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SPECIAL EDUCATION
Group
for ADHD
Group for ADHD is a private mental health clinic in Manhattan, founded by Lenore
Ruben, LMSW, CHT, EMDR, and Orly Calderon, Psy.D., a NYS licensed psychologist....READ
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The
Joys but Mostly the Pains of New Motherhood
By Carrie Masia-Warner, Ph.D.
Having a new baby can be one of the most joyous experiences in a woman’s
life. It is a time to fall in love in a way understood only by others who have
experienced it....READ
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Communicating
Feelings Effectively
By Dr Brian Brown
All of us from time to time have difficulties effectively communicating our
feelings. When emotions run high we may become overwhelmed by a given situation
and walk away thinking to ourselves, “I should have done this or said
that to this person”...READ
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COLLEGES
College President’s Series:
President Amy Gutmann, University of Pennsylvania
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
In her inaugural address last October as the University of Pennsylvania’s 89th president, Dr. Amy Gutmann articulated a tripartite “vision” she believed could turn Penn from “excellence” to “eminence.”...READ MORE
Talking with Inspirational
Teacher Andrew Gardner
By Liza Young
At the age of 29, Andrew Gardner has already been a first grade teacher for
seven years. With passion and dedication to the field, Gardner has developed
a teaching style that is creative and innovative, fostering an enjoyment of
learning for his six-year-old students....READ
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Bank
Street’s Infancy Institute Helps the Smallest Among
Us
By Julie Ronneburger
The Graduate School of Bank Street College of Education presented its eighteenth
annual Infancy Institute in June 2005. The three day event, titled “Infants,
Toddlers, Families: Supporting Their Growth,” involved thirty-seven nationally
renowned professors and experts in fields such as psychiatry, occupational
therapy, music therapy, and nutrition....READ
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New
Hudson River Ecology Course Piloted by 14 Universities
Barnard College is Leader
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
Although many New Yorkers’ only hands-on experience with the Hudson River
has been on a Circle Line cruise, all that will change for a lucky group of
college students if some visionary educators realize their dream....READ
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New
Dean of Hunter College School of Education Expands Intellectual
Options
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Though it’s been 25 years since Dr. David Steiner was last in Manhattan,
when he worked for a short time in finance on Wall Street, this Oxford-educated
student of the humanities, who completed his graduate study at Harvard in political
philosophy, still remembers his first and brief sojourn in the city as a twelve
year old at P.S. 41...READ
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MUSIC ART & DANCE
The
Salzburg Festival: La Traviata Sets New Gold Standard
By Irving Spitz, Music Editor
Special from Salzberg: Verdi’s La Traviata
is performed so often that it’s a challenge to
present something new. Producer Willy Decker and director
Wolfgang Gussmann achieved this in a dramatically coherent
and visually compelling way....READ
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
Education
and Fun in the Bath
By Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
From ages three to nine, children will clamor for and enjoy bath time with
ArtFoams, a creative assortment of rubberized shapes that stick to the tiles
of a tub....READ MORE
Language
Dolls Provide Great Way to Learn Foreign Languages
By Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
Did you ever think about teaching your child foreign languages before they
started school? Language Littles provide the perfect venue for learning
Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French, Greek or Hebrew from ages 3 to 12....READ
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Attention
All Elementary School Students
Emily Wertheimer’s Recipe
Emily is a 2nd grader in Millburn, New Jersey....READ
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MOVIES & THEATER
Movie
Review
A Well-Tailored Tale: Balzac
and The Little Chinese Seamstress
By Jan Aaron
That good literature has a significant impact on one’s life is certainly
the view held by educators throughout the free world. So, this movie Balzac
and the Little Chinese Seamstress, set during China’s repressive Cultural
Revolution, makes us realize how fortunate we are to be able read books and
learn from them and how books can change lives....READ
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Movie Review
PBS’ Making Schools
Work Maps Success Strategies For Troubled Schools
By Jan Aaron
As she prepares for the new school year, New York educator Daria Rigney has
something else to look forward to: She will be featured in the prime time
special Making Schools Work, airing nationally on PBS, October 5 from 9-11
PM. (Mark your calendars.)...READ
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LETTERS
Dr.
Alexandra Levine: Caring, Humanistic Physician
To the Editor:
It was my great fortune to have been a patient of Dr. Levine. There is no more
caring and supportive individual and she was totally responsible for giving
me the courage and strength to tackle my condition....READ
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TECHNOLOGY
IntelliTools
Announces Two Exciting Releases
IntelliTools, Inc., a pioneer in learning solutions for pre K-8 classrooms,
has been producing software and adaptive hardware products for 25 years,
earning 14 Technology and Learning Awards of Excellence....READ
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Product Review
Doublesight DSP-1900
Dual Monitor
By Mitchell Levine
Although maximizing visibility might be of only partial interest to the typical
home user, to the technology managers in the New York City schools, it’s
a vital necessity....READ
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Product Review
Teaching Edge’s Ragtime
5
By Mitchell Levine
Now that what was once exotic technology has become commonplace, many of us
have become uncritical about the tools we use: although there are a few alternatives,
it seems like almost everyone in the tech rank and file, keep using applications
software from the big-time players...READ
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Product Review
Smartroom’s Beyond Question
System
By Mitchell Levine
If
there’s anything
that the technology ramp-up process that’s occurred
over the last several years in the New York Schools has proven,
it’s that just spending money on products alone will
accomplish nothing to improve student learning in itself....READ MORE
Product Review
TSFS’s Technology Integration
Kit
By Mitchell Levine
To successfully implement
a technology program for your school that will actually impact
learning, you need more than just hardware...READ MORE
BOOKS
Logos Bookstore’s
Recommendations
Come celebrate the end of summer at Logos this September...READ MORE