GUEST EDITORIAL University Research:
America’s Best Stimulus By CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein Seatbelts. Global Positioning Systems. Laser cataract surgery. Doppler radar. Cable TV. Just a few familiar inventions — and just a few of the many discoveries that resulted from research conducted at universities. ...READ MORE
A NEW JOURNALISM INITIATIVE
Education Update Launches Innovative Middle School Journalism Initiative By Adam Sugerman
In September, the staff of Education Update launched the Middle School Journalism Initiative with students from two inner-city public schools: The Young Women’s Leadership School in Harlem and Public School 169, a school for special-needs children, on the Upper East Side....READ MORE
Classics Are Cool By Sandra Priest Rose
Third-graders in a public school in New York City’s largely Hispanic Washington Heights area declared that their favorite part of the year was stories from The Odyssey in a children’s version....READ MORE
Harold McGraw III & McGraw-Hill Increase Financial Literacy For Teachers & Students The McGraw-Hill Companies recently hosted nearly 200 schoolteachers from all five boroughs of New York City, and across the country, for a professional development session designed to help them educate their students about important personal finance topics so they can make sensible money decisions as adults....READ MORE
The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education: Three Outstanding Educators Honored By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D.
Three outstanding educators who have dedicated their careers to improving education in this country — Ms. Sarita Brown, Dr. Joseph Renzulli, and Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond — were honored recently at the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education ceremony at the New York Public Library....READ MORE
BOOKS
Liz Smith Wows Them At Marymount By Dr. Pola Rosen
Liz Smith, once the highest-paid columnist in the world, is still much beloved if one judges by the multitude of smiling faces who packed themselves into Marymount Manhattan College’s Regina Peruggi Room recently for The Writing Center’s popular Irish Voices Series....READ MORE
SPECIAL EDUCATION
Imagine Academy Commits
To Future of Autism By McCarton Ackerman
At a time when the demand for autism education is at a record high, one Brooklyn school is not only striving to meet those needs, but preparing to face an even greater demand in the future....READ MORE
Sterling School Fights To Help Overcome Dyslexia By McCarton Ackerman
Although the New York State Education Department recognizes many forms of learning disabilities, one school in Brooklyn was created in response to a disability that isn’t....READ MORE
CAMPS
Camp Is for Every Child By Peg L. Smith
CEO, American Camp Association
Watching my son after he returned from summer camp was the first hint that remarkable growth was underway....READ MORE
Insurance Coverage Status Affects Mortality Rate in Pediatric Trauma Patients Differences between private insurance, public insurance, and no insurance may determine quality of treatment Boston, Mass.—A study led by Heather Rosen, MD, MPH, research fellow in the Department of Plastic Surgery at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, found that uninsured children were over three times more likely to die from their trauma-related injuries than children who were commercially insured, after adjustment for other factors such as age, gender, race, injury severity and injury type in an analysis of data from the National Trauma Data Bank....READ MORE
GUEST EDITORIAL The Road to Hell? By Howard Gardner, Ph.D. If the proverbial inter-planetary visitor observed educational policymakers around the world, she would soon infer their single preoccupation: “How to raise scores on international comparisons like the TIMMS or the PISA tests.”...READ MORE
A MEMORABLE VISIT TO YALE
Yale University: Lux et Veritas By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
The three interviews with Yale University researchers that appear below constitute prime examples of the motto of Yale University—“Lux et Veritas,” light and truth—a Latin translation of a Hebrew phrase that appears on the seal of Yale University. An accepted interpretation holds that the Biblical expression refers to the intention of God’s will as it was revealed to a high priest and through the priest to the people. Lux et Veritas is, of course, an appropriate motto for Yale, which was founded in 1701 to provide and promote academic and religious training. Such a mission was typical of the time, and it continues to inspire the scholars featured in these articles, for whom the highest form of research means embracing the ethical dimensions and societal implications of their work, especially as that work affects the education of children.
Marc Bracket, Ph.D. Director, Zigler Center, Emotional Intelligence By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
In his early thirties, Marc Brackett, Ph.D.—associate research scientist and associate director of the Health, Emotions and Behavior Laboratory at Yale and the psychology director of the Zigler Center Emotional Intelligence Unit—can lay claim to what others may achieve only after a longtime career....READ MORE
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER CENTERFOLD
We Remember:
Education Update Exclusive Interviews Senator Edward Kennedy: National Center for Learning Disabilities Awardee By Dr. Pola Rosen |
May 2005 Education Update: The Kennedy Family has been involved in helping children with special needs for many decades, including the Special Olympics. How did you first become involved in special education? Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy: My family became particularly committed to children with disabilities and their families because of our sister, Rosemary, who had mental retardation. In many ways she still had real potential, and my parents did their best to see that she could develop as much as possible....READ MORE
McCourt Advises Teachers: Be Passionate! By Lisa K. Winkler |
May 2008
Frank McCourt’s advice for teachers is simple: “Find what you love and do it. If kids see your passion, they’ll be with you.”...READ MORE
Stanley H. Kaplan Supports Middle School Math Instruction at CCNY By Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D. |
July 2008
Several years ago, the math teacher shortage in New York City secondary schools reached near-crisis level. Despite the best efforts of the department of education to recruit the best and brightest new teachers for its schools, the national shortage of math majors and the outflow of experienced math teachers led to the evolution of a largely under-prepared and inexperienced math teacher corps in New York City....READ MORE
More Les Paul By Andrew Schiff |
September 2002
Throughout history, education has usually placed emphasis on the student-teacher relationship. Socrates taught Plato, Anne Sullivan taught Helen Keller and other examples flood the history books....READ MORE
Sadlier Conference on Advances in Mathematics By Lauren Shapiro,
Edited by Barbara Lowin Part 2 of 2 In 2006, President Bush created a National Mathematics Advisory Panel, comprised of 20 expert panelists and five ex-officio members, to advise him and the secretary of education on the best use of scientifically-based research on the teaching and learning of math, with a specific focus on preparation for and success in learning algebra....READ MORE
A Reprieve for Alternative Routes to Teacher Certification By Martha McCarthy, Ph.D.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Renee v. Duncan recently declined to invalidate a regulation under the federal No Child Left Behind Act that allows teachers participating in alternative routes to certification (licensure) to be considered “highly qualified.”...READ MORE
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS’ SERIES President Kimberly Cline, Mercy College By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Recently completing her first year as the 10th president of Mercy College—an approximately 9,000-student, private, nonprofit liberal arts college with a main campus in Dobbs Ferry and four campuses in metropolitan New York—Dr. Kimberly R. Cline reports no surprises, only delights. Her initial sense of Mercy College as a “student centered” institution has proved true in ways that have encouraged her to forge ahead, particularly in an area she strongly believes will put Mercy College on the academic map as a national leader: a revolutionary mentoring program called PACT (Personalized Achievement ContracT)....READ MORE
COLLEGE PRESIDENTS’ SERIES President Debora Spar, Barnard College By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
As conventional as it first sounds, when Debora Spar mentions “getting to know students” as the most memorable aspect of her first year as president of Barnard College, she immediately follows with an explanation and examples that prove her gifts for fast, thoughtful analysis and extraordinary personal charm....READ MORE
Learning By Hand: A Case for Handwriting Enhancing Reading By Dr. John J. Russell,
Head of Windward School
In the February 23, 2009 issue of Newsweek, Jessica Bennett predicted the doom of writing in longhand. In her cleverly-titled article, “The Curse of Cursive”, she states that “penmanship, like hieroglyphics and the IBM Selectric, has lost its purpose,” and she goes on to deliver the coup de grace by saying, “Let’s erase it for good.”...READ MORE
Exclusive Interview: Alonzo Mourning’s Triumph Over Kidney Disease By Richard Kagan How did you get the nickname “the ultimate warrior?”
Based on my demeanor and determination, over the years the nickname came from the perception that people took from my intense play....READ MORE
GUEST EDITORIAL
GUEST EDITORIAL CUNY and New York City Public School Graduates are Thriving By Jay Hershenson
New York City public high school graduates are thriving at CUNY Colleges, like Fei Yan Mock, who received her foundation for learning at the New York City Lab High School in Manhattan and is now an undergraduate at Hunter College majoring in biochemistry and classical studies....READ MORE
Sadlier Conference on U.S. Mathematics Achievement By Lauren Shapiro
In 2006, President Bush created a National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMAP), comprised of 20 expert panelists and five ex-officio members, to advise him and the Secretary of Education on the best use of scientifically-based research on the teaching and learning of math, with a specific focus on preparation for and success in learning algebra....READ MORE
DEAN’S PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION School Reform: Tinkering Around the Edges By Jerrold Ross, Ph.D
School reform has been the subject of articles, books, speeches (including campaign), op-ed pieces, research, and most of all, political pronouncements....READ MORE
Accountability vs. Equity: Are They at Odds? By Dr. Bonnie Brown
As educators, we labor under the rigor of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in our attempts to improve accountability through public test scores and district school-wide achievement metrics....READ MORE
Fighting for Geoscience Education By Dr. Michael J. Passow
When National Science Education Standards was released in the 1990s, earth and space science education was boosted toward a position of equality with biology, chemistry, and physics....READ MORE
The Dean's Column The Arithmetic Uniqueness of the Number 11 By Alfred S. Posamentier, Ph.D.
The number 11, since it is 1 greater than our base 10, has some lovely properties that can be used not only to shortcut some calculations, but also to exhibit some of mathematics’ hidden treasures....READ MORE
A Perspective on ADHD By Raul Silva, M.D.
In this column I would like to share with the readership my own perspectives on what is probably the most common neuropsychiatric condition in our schools today....READ MORE
A Hope for an Inclusive Tomorrow By Emmanuel Reed
One of the greatest fears that many parents face today is that their child will be diagnosed with autism or some other learning disability....READ MORE
New Eyes for the Needy: Giving the Gift of Sight By Lisa K. Winkler, Staff Writer
New Eyes for the Needy’s mission is vision, and this New Jersey-based nonprofit volunteer organization works hard to guarantee that anyone who needs glasses gets them....READ MORE
Logos Bookstore’s Recommendations By H. Harris Healy, III, President,
Logos Bookstore
In the Education Update May 2009 issue, I talked about a quality supplier of paperbacks, Dover Publications....READ MORE
Remembering A Life Long Past By Jan Aaron, Staff Writer They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Life in Poland Before the Holocaust will be exhibited at the Jewish Museum through October 1....READ MORE
A Remarkable Dining Experience at Barbetta Restaurant By Dr. Pola Rosen
If you ever want to enjoy a spectacular lunch or dinner and retreat entirely from the hustle and bustle of the city, dine at Barbetta Restaurant, the oldest single family-owned restaurant in New York City....READ MORE
A Mosaic Artist, Yiannis Frazis By Marylena Mantas
Tourist groups from Russia to New York City often find visiting St. Eleftherios Greek Orthodox Church in Chelsea on their list of attractions....READ MORE
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