COVER STORIES
Murdered But Still Alive:
Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner:
Forty-Two Years Later Family Members Speak Out
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
June 21, 1964. Neshoba
County, Mississippi. It is a story that has festered like
an ugly wound in the civil rights annals of this country,
one of the unimaginable atrocities that spread like a plague
during Freedom Summer 1964. READ ARTICLE
We Stand in Tribute to
Rosa Parks
Compiled by Liza Young
Rosa
Parks—international
icon of the civil rights movement—a seamstress at the
time she unwaveringly refused to give up her seat to a white
passenger, spun the threads of the beginning of the modern
civil rights movement, according to many historians. READ ARTICLE
Justice Albie Sachs:
African Freedom Fighter
By Joan baum, Ph.D.
It’s rare that students studying
history get to meet leading players in landmark events, but
recently, at Facing History High School (FHHS), a New Visions
school on West 50th Street, a group of youngsters—and
then the entire class of 108 9th graders—had a chance
to see, listen to and question South African freedom fighter
Justice Albie Sachs. READ ARTICLE
Dr. Mayme Clayton:
40 Years of Collecting African American Works
By Liza Young
In
an interview with Avery Clayton on February 2 in Los Angeles,
it was clear he had found his mission as part art educator
(which he was in the public schools of Pasadena), part
preservationist, part historian and part his mother’s son as steward
of the largest collection on the West Coast of African
American works in literature, music, and movies as well as photographs,
manuscripts, and memorabilia. READ ARTICLE
Inside the Melting Pot
By
Phyllis C. Murray
“When the nation is made ready
by enlightenment, its good fortune will make Black History
Month an anachronism. No culture should by its spotlight
eclipse another, and the reputation of one cannot flourish
at the expense of another. We are a unified but not yet united
civilization.” —Ron Issacs
READ
ARTICLE
An Interview with Geoffrey
Canada
Education
Update (EU):How did you choose your career? READ ARTICLE
Artist Yinka Shonibare:
Reflections on the Journeys of Our Ancestors
Yinka Shonibare: Works
from the Permanent Collection is the fourth installation
in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery exhibition series devoted
to showcasing Copper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s
permanent collection of 250,000 objects spanning twenty-three
centuries. READ ARTICLE
Poems
On Various Subjects, Religous And Moral
READ ARTICLE
BOOKS
The Passion Of My Times:
An Advocate’s Fifty-Year Journey
In The Civil Rights Movement
Reviewed By Merri Rosenberg
Although
I was barely in elementary school during the Freedom Summer
of 1964, I remember sitting in my late parents’ living
room in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, listening to several of
their school teacher friends discuss their plans to register
black voters in the South during their summer vacation. READ
MORE
At
Canaan’s
Edge:
America In The King Years 1965-68
Reviewed by Merri
Rosenberg
Perhaps only
a trilogy as monumental as Taylor Branch’s three-volume
history of America during the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
years could do justice to that equally monumental epoch.
READ ARTICLE
Revisiting
the Deep South in “To Kill A Mockingbird”
By Merri
Rosenberg
From our vantage
point in 2006, it’s
sometimes easy to forget exactly how pervasive and pernicious
racism was at earlier, more shameful moments in our history.
READ ARTICLE
Harper Lee, Gregarious
for a Day
By Ginia Bellafante
Of all the
functions at the president’s
mansion of the University of Alabama here, none has acquired
the mystique surrounding a modest annual luncheon attended
by high school students from around the state. READ ARTICLE
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle
Tom’s Cabin, 1852
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
is best known today as the author of Uncle Tom’s
Cabin,
which helped galvanize the abolitionist cause and contributed
to the outbreak of the Civil War. READ ARTICLE
From The
Souls of Black Folk, 1903, W.E.B. DuBois
Strange to relate! For this is certain,
no secure civilization can be built in the South with the Negro
as an ignorant, turbulent proletariat. READ ARTICLE
EDITORIAL & LETTERS
Guest
Editorial:
Needed: Quality Education for
All
by Howard Dodson
The crisis in American
education in general and black education in particular is more
serious than I thought. READ ARTICLE
Letter to the Editor
READ LETTERS
SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
Dr. Henri Ford, Pediatric
Surgeon Extraordinaire
by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
It was quite
a leap for Haitian-born Henri Ford who knew no English to
attend John Jay High School in Brooklyn—where he was
called “Frenchie”—and
then go on for his B.A. at Princeton, not to mention moving
from there in record time to Harvard Medical School, but for
this Vice President and Chief of Surgery at Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles and Vice Chair of the Department of Surgery
at the Keck School of Medicine (USC), affiliated with Children’s
Hospital, “leaps” are “challenges.” READ
ARTICLE
William C. Thompson,
Jr.:
A First-Class Leader On His Second Term
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Though The New York Times noted
in its report on the Mayor’s January 26th State
of the City address that William C. Thompson, Jr. had
been reelected with 92 percent of the vote, the admirable Comptroller
of The City of New York wondered why this fact was even mentioned
two months after the fact, when he ran virtually unopposed
in a race without a Republican or Independent candidate. READ
ARTICLE
William L. Taylor:
Passionate Advocate of the Civil Rights Movement
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
The
title of William L. Taylor’s
influential, well received legal autobiography, The Passion
of My Times: An Advocate’s Fifty-Year Journey in the
Civil Rights Movement—just out in paperback—is
taken, he proudly points out, from Oliver Wendell Holmes’s
comment that “As life is action and passion, it is required
of a man that he should share the passion and action of his
time, at the peril of being not to have lived.” READ
ARTICLE
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Stutterers Face Challenges
in Job Interviews
People who stutter may be harder workers
because they have to compensate for their disability,
speech experts say. READ ARTICLE
Group For ADHD
Ask the clinician
Q: Our child is 12
years old and has been experiencing behavior and academic
problems at home and at school since her academic career
began. READ ARTICLE
CAMPS & SPORTS
Noel Steps Up Big For
Midwood Hornets
By Richard Kagan
Recently, Midwood High School in Brooklyn
defeated South Shore High School 62-60 in a Public School Athletic
League basketball game that put the Hornets into the Publick
School Athletic League (PSAL) playoffs. READ ARTICLE
Raising Awareness to
Reduce
Bullying in Summer Camps
By Joel D. Haber, Ph.D.
Think back to your elementary/grade
school years, and ask yourself if you can recall the top three
favorite memories of your childhood. READ ARTICLE
COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS
The Dean's Column:
Some Mind-Bogglers on Pi
by Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D.
From early exposure to mathematics, students become familiar
with π. READ ARTICLE
Preparing
for the College Interview:
An Insider’s View
by Keith
Berman, M.Ed., M.S.Ed.
The college
interview does “not
really count” READ ARTICLE
Bank
Street College of Education Honors Irma & Paul Milstein & President
Augusta Souza Kappner
Recently, the
Pierre Hotel was the site of an elegant dinner to honor the
philanthropy of Irma and Paul Milstein as well as a decade
of President Augusta Souza Kappner’s visionary leadership.
READ ARTICLE
Phi Delta Kappa, Columbia
University,
Celebrates Achievements of Principals
by Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
Phi Delta Kappa honored three
principals for their outstanding work in inclusion and special
education, with a gala dinner at the Columbia University Faculty
House recently. READ ARTICLE
CHILDREN'S CORNER
From
the Superintendent’s Seat:
Getting Along
By Dr. Carole G. Hankin
with Randi T. Sachs
If
your children are doing well academically in school, it’s
great. READ ARTICLE
Feb.
Events at Children’s
Museum: Andy Warhol
On February 20, 2006 artist
James Warhola, nephew of the great 20th century painter Andy
Warhol, will be conducting a special reading from his childhood
memoir, Uncle Andy’s at the
Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM). Uncle
Andy’s, a book inspired by childhood memories
of a particular visit to see his uncle in 1962, is a Winner
of the International Reading Association’s Best Children’s
Non-Fiction Book of 2004 award. READ ARTICLE
METROBEAT
The Flavor of the Month
By
CSA President Jill Levy
Each year, you attend this Conference
to demonstrate your genuine and unswerving loyalty to the education
of children – a dedication that transcends politics,
reorganizations, budget crises, and the latest sexy “flavor
of the month” in education reform. READ ARTICLE
City’s
Schools Cut Achievement Gap? Not Yet
by Liz Krueger,
NYS senator
While reading
the newspaper last month, a headline caught my eye: “City’s
Schools Cut Racial Gap in Test Scores.” READ ARTICLE
Space Foundation Now
Accepting
Applications for Teacher Liaison Program
Applications are due to the Space
Foundation by Feb. 24, 2006. Space Foundation Teacher Liaisons serve as
an active link between the Space Foundation, NASA, and their
school and school district. READ ARTICLE
NY Bird Club Events
READ ARTICLE
MUSIC, ART & DANCE
Carnegie Hall Announces
2006-7 Musical Offerings: Collaboration, Innovation, and Access
are Themes
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
Quoting former
President Teddy Roosevelt, Carnegie Hall’s executive
and artistic director Clive Gillinson announced at a standing
room only press conference recently that, in planning the
venerable institution’s
2006-7 musical season, “we kept our eyes on the stars
and our feet on the ground.” READ ARTICLE
The Studio Museum in
Harlem
by Sandra Jackson-Dumont
The early 1990s witnessed the release
of the classic hip-hop record aptly entitled Edutainment,
by KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions (BDP). READ ARTICLE
Sam Ash Music Stores:
A chain store that has retained
its founder’s policies
Back in 1924, a young married
couple decided to open a music store. READ ARTICLE
MEDICAL UPDATE
Advice
for Children From Boston Children’s Hospital
Since we’re in the midst of flu
and cold season, I wanted to alert you to a helpful resource
on the recently re-launched Children’s Hospital Boston
Web site—the “My Child Has” search feature,
which offers an encyclopedic database of information on childhood
illnesses and conditions, tips on preventive care, as well
as explanations of treatments, procedures, and diagnostic tests,
with links from each entry to the appropriate clinical departments
and programs within the hospital. READ ARTICLE
Union Settlement Home
Care Services, Inc. Celebrates 25th Anniversary
Union Settlement
Home Care Services, located at 174 East 104th Street, New
York, NY celebrated its 25th Anniversary Year celebration
with a community Open House series. “All
too often people facing an illness don’t know where to
turn for comfort and support, “said Cheryl Patterson-Artis,
ACBSW, MRE, MST, Director of Operations, for Union Settlement
Home Care Services. READ ARTICLE
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