Hillary Clinton Highlights
Special Education
NYU Child Study Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary At Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner
The NYU Child Study Center hosted its 10th  Annual Child Advocacy Award Dinner at Cipriani  42nd Street recently....MORE

The New York City Council
Who Are Our City Council Members & What Do They Do? 
By Dr. Pola Rosen
There are 51 elected City Council Members, yet few of the 8 million citizens of New York  City can name what they do or who they  are....MORE

EDITORIAL, OP/ED & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Guest Editorial
Physician, Heal Thyself!
By Scott Noppe-Brandon
Ah, the golden days—the 50s, the 60s, even the early 70s—when the arts were firmly ensconced in the curriculum of public schools across our nation....MORE

OP/ED: CITY COMPTROLLER & PUBLIC ADVOCATE
Improving Career And Technical Education Programs In New York City
By William C. Thompson, Jr.& Betsy Gotbaum
In our information age, the skills gap is widening rapidly....MORE

Letters to the Editor - JANUARY 2008
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SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS

Corporate Contributions To Education
Michael Steinhardt:
Legendary Financier Turned Philanthropist
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.                                               
What do you do when you’ve risen to the top  of your profession and achieved undreamed-of  financial success?...MORE

A Look At Progress Reports
By Ernest Logan, CSA President
The progress reports that were released last month by the Department of Education and which graded New York City Public Schools on a scale of A to F were borne of good intentions....MORE

National Yiddish Theatre–Folksbiene Honors Dr. Charlotte K. Frank & Sesame Workshop
The National Yiddish Theatre–Folkbiene honored the Sesame Workshop (the non-profit educational organization behind Sesame Street) and McGraw-Hill’s Dr. Charlotte K. Frank, one of the country’s leading authorities on education, at its annual cabaret dinner gala....MORE

Grace Outreach Helps High School Dropouts Get GED Degrees 
By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
In Zaukema Blanding’s math class, students are  poring over their math homework with intense  concentration, scrutinizing conversion tables and  double-checking their fractions....MORE

Teachers Award Daily News Exec Top Honors
Diana Boschen (L), Director of Educational Programs and Partnerships at the Daily News, beams after receiving the Media Literacy Award......MORE

COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS

Driven By Landmark’s Mission: Chair Charles Manley & His Board Envision Great Outcomes For Landmark Students
By Mary Kukovich
The first thing you notice about Charles Manley  is the way he listens with great care and intent....MORE 

The Dean's Column
The Beautiful Magic Square
By Dr. Alfred S. Posamentier
In the spirit of the season, we offer you some recreation in mathematics.....MORE

Global Classrooms:
Expanding Its Reach in New Ways
By Ambassador William Luers
A priority for our society must certainly be to prepare young Americans to understand the world  in which we live, the threats to our globe and the uncanny richness and variety of the human experience  across nations....MORE

BANK STREET COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
Children at Risk: Communities of Caring Help Get it Right from the Start
By Margot Hammond, Director,
Bank Street Center For Early Childhood Professionals
Earlier this year I was facilitating a group on  teaching writing in a high needs school in an  urban district....MORE

NYU Steinhardt Launches Policy Series on Gender and Education
NYU Steinhardt recently launched a three part policy breakfast series devoted to gender  and education and exploring the implications  for policy and practice....MORE

St. John’s Falls To Virginia Tech In Aeropostale Holiday Festival Tournament, 54-48
By Richard Kagan
With seven freshmen playing at Madison Square Garden, considered by basketball brethren as the “mecca of college basketball”—the moment had to be somewhat intimidating....MORE

Disturbing Decline in Minority Enrollment at Law Schools
A new Web site created by Columbia Law School documents a disturbing drop in enrollment by African-American and Mexican-American students in America’s law schools....MORE

SPECIAL EDUCATION

From the NYU CHILD STUDY CENTER: ASK THE EXPERT
About Kids Who Don’t Like Sports 
By Glenn S. Hirsch, M.D.
More than 30 million  children and adolescents in the United States participate in group or individual sports....MORE

Excessive Tantrums In Preschoolers May Indicate Serious Mental Health Problems 
By Jim Dryden
Certain types of tantrums in preschoolers may be  a sign of serious emotional or behavioral problems,  according to researchers at Washington University  School of Medicine in St. Louis....MORE

Charles & Helen Schwab Foundation
Selects Transition Partners
GreatSchools and Professor Garfield  Foundation to Inherit Learning  Disability (LD)-Focused Web Content
The Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation  announced today its intention to merge its award winning  Schwab Learning websites with two nonprofit organizations, selected from an invitation only review process, to continue operations for  SchwabLearning.org, dedicated to helping parents  of children with learning and attention problems, and  SparkTop.org, the first website designed exclusively
for 8—12 year olds who struggle with learning....MORE

Gov. Grants for Educators
Charter School Program (CSP): The purpose of the CSP is to increase national understanding of the charter  school model and to expand the number of high quality  charter schools available to students across the Nation by providing financial assistance for the  planning, program design, and initial implementation  of charter schools, and to evaluate the effects of charter  schools, including their effects on students, student  academic achievement, staff, and parents....MORE

Special Camp Fair On Saturday, Jan. 26, 2008
Parents and caregivers of children and teens with  disabilities can plan ahead for summer with the  wealth of information offered at the 23rd annual  free Special Camp Fair on Saturday, January 26,  2008 from 11 AM to 3 PM. at the Church of St. Paul  the Apostle, (entrance to Fair on Columbus Ave.  near W. 60th St.) NYC....MORE

MetroBEAT

2007: A Year of Progress in Education, Quality of Life and Public Safety
By Mayor Michael Bloomberg
I think it’s fair to say that 2007 will  be one for the record books....MORE

BOOKS

Alice McDermott Hits Homerun at Marymount Manhattan College Writing Center
By Dr. Pola Rosen
“Somewhere in the Bronx, only 20 minutes  or so from the cemetery,” read Lewis Burke  Frumkes, director of Marymount Manhattan  College’s much praised writing center the other  night to a packed house....MORE

Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations
By H. Harris Healy, III, President, Logos Bookstore
A new year is a time for one to do something new....MORE

Each Book Is Unique—A Gem—and Precious To Learning!
By Selene Vasquez
The youngest of the highly gifted Gratch sisters,  Velma longs to be special in her own right....MORE 

CHILDREN"S CORNER

From the Superintendent's Office
The Benefits of Learning 
By Dr. Carole G. Hankin with Randi T. Sachs
We heard it said recently, that  if a person speaks only one language, you can bet that language is English  and the person is American....MORE

CAREERS

Dramatic Success in the World of Fashion: Marc Daniel
By Alberto Cepeda
While individuals who possess linguistic or logical-mathematical intelligence go onto successful careers in medicine, law or education, there are other kinds of intelligences that may not be reinforced through a high school curriculum but may lead to a successful alternative career....MORE

MEDICAL UPDATE

Exercise Testing May Help Predict Seriousness of Mitral Regurgitation
In as many as one in five people over age 55, when the heart contracts to send blood around the body, some degree of backward leakage occurs  across the mitral valve, a condition known as  mitral regurgitation (MR)....MORE

Edward M. Cooney to Receive Award for Child Nutrition
The 2008 Gene White Lifetime Achievement  Award for Child Nutrition will be awarded to  a leader who has spent over thirty-five years  combating hunger in the U.S. and internationally....MORE

Winter Walking Tips From Mount Sinai Medical Experts
Winter is here and with the first snow and ice  having already hit the ground, it would seem a  good time to review some basic tips on how to  walk on slippery surfaces to help pedestrians  avoid injuries....MORE

MUSIC, ART & DANCE

National Dance Institute—“Dancing Through Life”
By Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D.
“5-6-7-8—Lift your knees! —Higher! —  Higher! —Look at the audience! —Now Smile!”...MORE

Director Dale Lewis Celebrates 25 Years at Usdan & Usdan Celebrates 40
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Over the years, each summer, more than 50,000  youngsters, ages 6-18, approximately 1,600 a day, now—some from as far away as NJ, Riverhead  and Westchester County—know that when their  air-conditioned chartered buses hit Exit 49N, of  the L.I.E., they’re just minutes away from a wonderland in the woods that Time Magazine called  “one of America’s most unique camps.”...MORE

School For Strings Continues To Vibrate As Suzuki-Based Music School  
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Though it’s been a few years since Charles  Osgood featured The School for Strings (SFS)  on CBS, nothing’s changed at this jewel of a  children’s music school....MORE

Sarah Johnson Brings New Musical Perspectives to Carnegie Hall
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Only eight months into her new job as Director of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall  (WMI), Sarah Johnson, full of energy and excitement about implementing plans for the 2008-9  season—“I wish I could say more right now  but…” nonetheless, waiting for final decisions to be made, is eager at least to identify now some areas of interest....MORE

MUSEUMS AS EDUCATORS

Museum Educators Enjoy Evening At American Museum Of Natural History
By Jan Aaron
It would be impossible for the estimated 500  educators who attended the recent Educator’s  Evening at the American Museum of Natural  History (AMNH) to come away without feeling  excitement for classroom possibilities of the new  exhibition Water: H²O=Life....MORE