COVER STORIES

We Honor Outstanding African-Americans
An Interview with Ernest Logan, President, Council of School Supervisors & Administrators
By Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
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An Interview with Dr. Kwando M. Kinshasa, John Jay College
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President Edison O. Jackson, Medgar Evers College
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We Celebrate Outstanding African Americans
• Breaking Barriers: Louis Armstrong And Civil Rights
• Queens College - Jeffrey Renard Allen
• Hunter College - Roy DeCarava
• Hunter College - Dr. Godfrey Gumbs
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SPECIAL EDUCATION

Profiles in Special Education:
Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Impassioned Pioneer, Educator, Innovator
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Even his writing overflows with passion, confidence and good cheer...READ MORE

Profiles in Special Education:
Lindamood-Bell Co-Founder Nanci Bell Speaks Out: Reading Integration is the Key to Success
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes’ co-founder Nanci Bell has always thought big...READ MORE

From the NYU Child Study Center: Ask the Expert
How Can I Protect My Child from Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse?
By Glenn S. Hirsch, M.D.
There is good news in the fight against drug use...READ MORE

Summer Camps for Students with Hearing Loss
Three different camps for students with hearing loss combining career exploration, self-awareness, and fun are available for middle and high school students at Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y., this summer...READ MORE

SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS

What Really Matters in Schools
By Randi Weingarten
Mayor Bloomberg and Chancellor Klein recently announced, with much fanfare, plans for yet another top-to-bottom restructuring of the nation’s largest school system designed to dismantle the bureaucracy and shift all responsibility for educating kids onto the shoulders of principals...READ MORE

A “Living Fossil” Tree Grows in Brooklyn
By Joan Freilich, Ph.D.
For the past 96 years, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden has provided New Yorkers and visitors with not only a beautiful and restful green haven from the bustle of city life that surrounds it, but also with specialized horticultural experiences that were the first of their kind—the Japanese garden, the fragrance garden, the children’s garden and a garden designed for the visually impaired...READ MORE

HS Students Create Winning Businesses at Virtual Enterprises
By Heather Maher & Justine Rivera
Ten years ago, the superintendents of several New York City high schools teamed together to develop a practice system in which their students could develop business skills and get hands-on experience in a simulated business world that is completely student run with the guidance of a teacher and a business partner...READ MORE

My Internship with Education Update
By Heather Maher
There have been very few times when I’ve had an experience that’s life changing...READ MORE

COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS

The Dean’s Column:
The Most Misunderstood Average
By Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D.
Most uninformed students, when asked to calculate the average speed for a round trip with a “going” average speed of 30 miles per hour and a “returning” average speed of 60 miles per hour would think that their average speed for the entire trip is 45 miles per hour (calculated as (30 + 60) / 2 = 45)...READ MORE

Town Hall Hosts Students for Black History Month
By Lisa K. Winkler
About 4,500 students, grades 3-8, from all the New York City boroughs will tap their feet and clap their hands to the beat of Urban Tap, at free performances at The Town Hall this month as part of its Black History Month presentation...READ MORE

Online Summer Institute Courses for Educators at Landmark College
Landmark College, widely recognized as America’s leading college for students with learning disabilities and/or ADHD, has announced online versions of its renowned Summer Institute Courses for Educators...READ MORE

Bank Street College Diversity
Do good ideas come in pairs? That seems to be the case with the Bank Street commitment to enhance diversity and the inauguration of the Priscilla E. Pemberton Society in late 2005...READ MORE

BEST PRACTICES

Principal’s Corner:
A Forum To Share Best Practices
What Happened at PS 69 Bronx After Conflict Resolution Education
By Alan Cohen, Principal
P.S. 69 is an elementary school in the Soundview section of the Bronx with a population of approximately 500 students...READ MORE

EDITORIAL & LETTERS

Reflections on A February Birthday
By Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
Approaching a big birthday in February, I began to wax a bit nostalgic about years past and days ahead...READ MORE

Letters to the Editor - February 2007
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MUSIC, ARTS & DANCE

Imagination in the Classroom
By Scott Noppe-Brandon
In 2006, Lincoln Center Institute created an Imagination Award...READ MORE

Ancient China Comes to the Classroom, NTDTV’s Educational Outreach Program Teaches Kids About Traditional Chinese Culture
By Ben Youngquest
With China more and more in the public eye these days, people are curious to learn about this rising giant...READ MORE

BOOKS

Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations
By H. Harris Healy, III, President, Logos Bookstore
For a month in the doldrums of winter, February has much going on in its short span: Ground Hog Day, Valentine’s Day, African American History Month and Presidents Day, a day to honor all Presidents of the United States...READ MORE

The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride
Reviewed by Joan Baum, Ph.D.
It’s likely that the remarkable but little known Williamsport, PA resident Julia C. Collins (d. 1865), author of the novel, The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, would have regarded Black History Month with a sympathetic eye because she wrote essays for the 19th century African Methodist Episcopal Church’s Christian Register, “probably the leading, black-operated periodical of the time.”..READ MORE

Children’s Books for African American History Month
Dubbed as “Gutsy—and very nicely done,” in a starred review from Kirkus Reviews, this is the first picture book to tell the true story of the courageous Oney Judge, a young slave who took great risks to flee servitude to President George and Martha Washingtons and have a free life in New Hampshire...READ MORE

CAREERS

The Dental Office of the 21st Century: Dr. Barry Moretzky
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
“If there’s a toy out there that’ll make my work and treatment better for my patients, I’ll get it,” says Barry Moretzky, D.M.D. His midtown practice is well named: “Contemporary Dental Implant Center.”..READ MORE

MEDICAL UPDATE

Laura Maioglio Blobel Speaks About Her Passion, Barbetta Restaurant
When in 1962 I took over Barbetta, my father’s restaurant, “healthy dining” was a concept yet to be born...READ MORE

Looking Well and Feeling Better than Ever
By Lisa Cohn, M.M.Sc., M.Ed.R.D.
Dieting is so 2006. If you really want to be well, lose weight flatten that belly for good you are going to have find a new way of thinking about your relationship to overall health and eating well...READ MORE

METROBEAT

New Medical School Opens in Harlem
By Sybil Maimin
The Harlem renaissance continues! The opening of a College of Osteopathic Medicine (TOUROCOM) on 125th St., across from the Apollo Theater, was announced, with much excitement and anticipation, by Touro College, the fast growing, multi-campus educational institution founded in 1971...READ MORE

Reading Reform Foundation Honors New York City Councilmember Gale A. Brewer
Reading Reform Foundation of New York, a nonprofit literacy organization now in its 25th year of training teachers to better teach reading, spelling and writing using multisensory phonics-based techniques, honored New York City Councilmember Gale A. Brewer (District 6) at a recent breakfast celebration, for her commitment to education...READ MORE

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Mayor Michael Bloomberg
America’s most important civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of our nation’s greatest heroes...READ MORE