THE ARTS IN EDUCATION
Kudos for the Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts, a.k.a. “Tony’s School”
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Can Tony Bennett really be 81 when his speaking voice, clear and strong, suggests 31?...MORE

Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music
Reviewed by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Tony Bennett in the Studio: A Life of Art & Music is the name of this big, handsome book, but note the order of the last two nouns: “Art” before Music.”...MORE

Making Pianos: Historical Perspective
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
There should be a limit as to how often the relatively unknown General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York is identified as being across from the Harvard Club on 44th Street, but the fact is that this marvelous institution, founded in 1820 for the “general education of the apprentices of NYC,” and filled with unique archival material, especially books and pamphlets on the “useful arts,” still hasn’t made it onto the radar screen, and that is a shame....MORE

Young Artists Make Their Mark at the Noguchi Museum
By Katarzyna Nikhamina
“When someone walks through our doors, you know they’ve been motivated,” said Heather Brady, head of Education at the Isamu Noguchi Museum, an oasis tucked away in Long Island City, Queens....MORE

EDITORIAL & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Guest Editorial
Partnerships Make Universities Good Citizens
By Mary Brabeck, Ph.D.
Earlier this year, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching awarded a special classification to New York University as a research university with “an outstanding and mutually beneficial relationship with its host community.”...MORE

Letters to the Editor - December 2007
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SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS

William Sadlier Dinger, Pres. of William H. Sadlier, Inc. and Maureen Dinger Receive Child of Peace Award
William Sadlier Dinger (’63), President of William H. Sadlier, Inc. received the Child of Peace Award at the 22nd Annual Child of Peace Award Dinner together with his wife Maureen Dinger on Thursday, September 27th at Jumeirah Essex House in New York City in recognition of their exemplary commitment to bettering the lives of those in need....MORE

The Dean's Column
The Regular Pentagon That Isn't
By Dr. Alfred S. Posamentier
The geometric construction of the regular pentagon is one of the more difficult constructions to do using only an unmarked straighedge and compasses.....MORE

PROFILES IN EDUCATION
Alice Wilder: Publisher & Creator of Think It Ink It
By Vicki Cobb
There are two problems that face every writer from the grade-school child to the professional author. First, you must have something to say....MORE

Ten Lessons From NYC To Improve Education
By Eric Nadelstern
The position of principal is the most pivotal when it comes to reforming schools....MORE

Testing Fails the Arts
By Richard Kessler
As New York City public schools begin to receive new funds from the state as part of the agreement in the long-standing Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit, schools will undoubtedly face enormous pressure to improve scores on standardized tests....MORE

TEACHERS & PRINCIPALS: GRANTS & RESOURCES
Free DOE EdTech Grant Directory, 4th Edition
Bridge Multimedia and the National Center for Technology Innovation (NCTI) announced today the launch of the fourth edition of http://www.EdTechOnline.org, a user-friendly Web site that offers a “One Stop Shop” for the latest information on federal grants available to support educational technology funded by the U.S. Department of Education....MORE

TEACHERS & PRINCIPALS: GRANTS & RESOURCES
Free Teaching Resources: Energy, Life Sciences, Mark Twain and More
By Peter Kickbush & Kirk Winters
Renewable energy, life science careers, computers and health, space food and space suits, prehistoric sea monsters, Mark Twain, politics in antebellum America, and creative writing are among the topics of new resources at FREE, the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find: http://www.free.ed.gov...MORE

TEACHERS & PRINCIPALS: GRANTS & RESOURCES
National Memorial Seeking Educators for Fellowship Program
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum invites educators from across the country to participate in a five-day fellowship at the museum in Oklahoma City, June 22-27, 2008....MORE

11 Nobelists Honored in Los Angeles
The Consulate General of Sweden in Los Angeles and the University of California hosted the Sixth Annual Nobel Laureate Dinner at the Getty Center recently....MORE

New Leaders for New Schools
New Leaders for New Schools is a national nonprofit organization that recruits extremely talented individuals to become urban public school principals....MORE

COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS

Powerful City & State Officials Salute CUNY Women’s Leadership
By Sybil Maimin
It was mutual admiration all around at the Women’s Leadership Conference as some of the most successful and powerful women in the city and state saluted the city’s future leaders, the fourteen female student participants in the 2007-2008 CUNY Women’s Public Leadership Internship Program....MORE

TEACHERS COLLEGE CONFERENCE on EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
The Future of School Desegregation & Affirmative Action: Analysis of Seattle & Louisville U.S. Supreme Court Ruling
By Richard Kagan
This morning panel kicked off the two day Symposium “Equal Educational Opportunity: What Now?”...MORE

TEACHERS COLLEGE CONFERENCE on EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
Democracy & Diversity in Higher Education
By Richard Kagan
This panel featured the distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, Lani Guiner....MORE

TEACHERS COLLEGE CONFERENCE on EDUCATIONAL EQUITY
The Impact of Special Education Laws on Equity & The Classroom
By Richard Kagan
Dr. Tom Hehir, Professor of Practice and Director of the The Leadership Program at Harvard University, Graduate School of Education made an informative presentation....MORE

Bank Street College:
Leading the Way for Educational Change
By Elisabeth Jakab
“The leadership for educational change program is a particularly inclusive one,” says its Director Gil Schmerler....MORE

CCNY Launches New Website To Commemorate The Centennial Of Its Historic, Landmarked Campus
The City College of New York (CCNY) recently launched a new website, “100 Years on Hamilton Heights,” to commemorate the Centennial of its Campus in Harlem....MORE

LaGuardia Community College Gets $574,930 Grant To Help Hispanic Students
LaGuardia Community College in New York has been awarded a $574,930 grant to strengthen and improve its facilities and academic programs for Hispanic-American according to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings....MORE

Chinese Doctoral Students at TC Discuss Education Reform
By Sybil Maimin
As part of its recent celebration of International Education Week, Teachers College of Columbia University (TC) hosted presentations by visiting doctoral students from China who spoke about education reform in their rapidly developing country and what they can learn from the United States....MORE

Penn Grad Makes Good As Cyclones Pitcher
By Richard Kagan
It’s the 9th inning and the game is on the line. Lefty Reliever Josh Appell has been called to the mound to get the Cyclones out of a late jam....MORE

School of Visual Arts Announces New Design Classes In Spanish
The Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will offer a new series of advertising and graphic design courses, from beginning to advanced levels, taught entirely in Spanish....MORE

The College Of New Rochelle Receives $50,000 Grant From NYS
State Assemblyman George Latimer has presented The College of New Rochelle (CNR) with a $50,000 capital construction grant from New York State....MORE

Phi Delta Kappa, Columbia University Chapter, Educators of the Year 2007
Dr. Steven Levy, President of Phi Delta Kappa (PDK), Columbia University Chapter, presided over a gala event at the Faculty House celebrating the achievements of Dr. Anthony Polemeni of Touro College as well as Poul Jensen, President and CEO of Graham Windham....MORE

Student Explorers in NYC Go to Antarctic
Five New York students are joining the Wings Antarctic expedition representing the boroughs of Queens, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx and Staten Island:...MORE

United Negro College Fund Leads Way in Cutting College Costs
Following Congressional passage by an overwhelming majority, President Bush recently signed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act into law....MORE

SPECIAL EDUCATION

From the NYU CHILD STUDY CENTER: ASK THE EXPERT
“Play is a child’s job”
By Glenn S. Hirsch, M.D.
My grandson Tani started kindergarten this year and I don’t remember the process being this stressful when my own children started school and I certainly know that we believed that playing was the major task of children this age....MORE

Private Placements for Children with Disabilities:  Who Pays?
By Martha McCarthy, Ph.D.
On October 10th, the U.S. Supreme Court divided evenly in Board of Education of New York City v. Tom F., which affirmed the Second Circuit’s decision without setting a national precedent....MORE

Do As I Do, And As I Say: Experiential Training for NYC’s Principals
By Marisa Suescun
On a recent school day, the large wall calendar hanging in Phuong Nguyen’s office at East Bronx Academy for the Future—a small public middle school where she served as a principal in training, an understudy for the role she will fulfill on her own next year—was jam-packed with color-coded tasks and appointments, all written in Nguyen’s neat print....MORE

New Programs for Gifted & Talented Students
By Richard Kagan
Over 100 parents came out on a chilly evening to hear the latest Department of Education’s (DOE) proposals for their gifted and talented students....MORE

MetroBEAT

Helping More of Our Schools Make the Grade
By Mayor Michael Bloomberg
This year many public schools have geared up for parent-teacher conferences....MORE

Food Allergies in Schools
By State Senator Liz Krueger
I am pleased to report that Governor Spitzer has signed S298A/A4051A, the Allergy and Anaphylaxis Management Act of 2007....MORE

BOOKS

Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations
By H. Harris Healy, III, President, Logos Bookstore
As the year-end holidays come and go, and as winter approaches and one is looking for a good book to read during these long winter nights, Ahab’s Wife or, The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund is the book to read....MORE

Studio Thinking:
The Real Benefits Of Visual Arts Education
Reviewed by Merri Rosenberg
In a world dominated by what seems to be a never-ending stream of assessments and accountability, with the expectations from No Child Left Behind looming large and casting a very long shadow on educators’ independence and creativity, arts education is often side-lined as a frill or luxury....MORE

New York City’s Best Public High Schools—A Parents’ Guide
Reviewed By Merri Rosenberg
No one said raising children in New York City was easy....MORE

CHILDREN"S CORNER

From the Superintendent's Office
Good Health is Up to YOU, Says Dr. Oz
By Dr. Carole G. Hankin with Randi T. Sachs
On Election Day, while the Syosset Schools were closed for students, our faculty and staff met together for a Superintendent’s Conference Day of staff development workshops....MORE

MEDICAL UPDATE

Beth Israel Medical Center Inaugurates
The Gerald J. Friedman Diabetes Institute
By Alberto Cepeda
The Beth Israel Medical Center officially opened the Gerald J. Friedman Diabetes Institute with a gala on World Diabetes Day....MORE

Student Scientists Meet Nobelist Harold Varmus at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Just hours before the world learned that skin cells could be re-programmed to behave as if they were stem cells, nearly 600 junior and senior high school students gathered at Mount Sinai School of Medicine to hear three dyad finalists in a “Novel Ideas in Biomedical Science” Essay Contest compete for 1st, 2nd, 3rd Place cash prizes....MORE

MUSIC, ART & DANCE

Theater Review
Kleynkunst! Warsaw’s Brave and Brilliant Cabaret at the JCC
By Jan Aaron
“Funny,” “sexy,” “ironic” are apt to describe “Kleynkunst! Warsaw’s Brave and Brilliant Yiddish Cabaret” inaugurating the 93rd consecutive season of the National Yiddish Theater – Folksbiene....MORE