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GUEST EDITORIALS & LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
 GUEST EDITORIAL
The Tale of Two Tails
By Chancellor Matthew Goldstein
In this difficult economy, it’s imperative that we help more students earn the degrees and skills they need to advance themselves. But it’s worth reminding ourselves that education is not a one-size-fits-all enterprise. Today The City University of New York serves 270,000....READ MORE
 GUEST EDITORIAL
Educating the Educator
By Dr. Peter Eden & Dr. Manju Banerjee
Teaching and learning environments today — at all educational grades and levels — involve students who come from diverse backgrounds and who possess a wide range of abilities, experiences, strengths and needs. The prevalence of students who learn differently....READ MORE
COLLEGES & GRAD SCHOOLS
Touro College of Pharmacy in Harlem Receives Full Accreditation
Touro College of Pharmacy has been granted full accreditation for its Doctor of Pharmacy program by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). The ACPE is recognized by the United States Department of Education as the national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy....READ MORE
JAMES J. HOWARD MARINE SCIENCES LABORATORY
Feds Propose Closure of Crucial NOAA Fisheries Lab
By Jennifer MacGregor and Lydia Liebman
The James J. Howard Marine Sciences Laboratory, strategically nestled in the Gateway National Recreation Area on Sandy Hook, N.J., and partially housed in an old Army barracks, has been conducting research for 50 years that is vital to the community at large....READ MORE
Sandy Hook Historical Perspectives: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
By Merryl Kafka, Ed.D.
The 1970s was a decade devoted to sweeping environmental legislative actions such as the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the Tidal Wetlands Act and the National Coastal Zone Management Act, among others. Federal statutes passed by Congress established maritime boundaries and management policies to both protect and sustain our ocean resources....READ MORE
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS
Education Update’s Outstanding Educators Share Lessons
By Dr. Pola Rosen
The Harvard Club was the setting of the tenth annual award ceremony in which Education Update recognizes Outstanding Educators of the Year. Thirty-two teachers and administrators nominated by their supervisors and voted on by Education Update’s Advisory Council, received a standing ovation by their peers, families, sponsors, scientists, union leaders and politicians....READ MORE
Innovate Manhattan Charter School Opens Its Doors
By Valentina Cordero
Innovation, personalized education, learning in a different way: these are the concepts that represent the heart of a new school, the Innovate Manhattan Charter School which opened its doors for the 2012-2013 school year to 225 middle-school students in its new location on Manhattan’s Lower East Side....READ MORE
Students Going Global
By Erica Anderson
How do you transform a ubiquitous pastime into an educational tool? The Japan Society, through its Going Global Social Networking Project seems to have figured it out. The initiative uses a secure social media networking platform to enable direct communication between elementary through high school students in the U.S., Japan and Pakistan....READ MORE
BOOKS
  The Feminist Press Holds Literary Event in Easthampton
By Dr. Pola Rosen and Jennifer MacGregor
The wide expanse of manicured green lawn replete with tent, cocktails and fine food served as the backdrop for literary women to present their latest works and thoughts. Orchestrated by attorney and Feminist Press Board Chair Rebecca Seawright and hostess Flora Schnall....READ MORESPECIAL EDUCATION
The Robert F. Kennedy School: A Haven for Different Learners
The Robert F. Kennedy School is a multi-dimensional, multi-sited program designed to promote the academic, emotional and social growth of each child within the school community; those students with pervasive developmental disorders (PDD or MRDD), autistic spectrum disorders (ASD), or emotional-behavioral disorders (EBD). Kennedy School students in special school reduced-size classes range in age from five to 15, while those in the high school inclusion program and in hospital-based classes may continue to age 21....READ MORE
MUSIC, ART & DANCE
 Behind the Scenes: Auditions & Acting
By Lisa K. Winkler
Getting off the elevator and entering the rehearsal studio — a maze of small, pastel-painted, mirrored rooms, complete with ballet barres — and seeing the young actors primping and pacing, perusing scripts and listening to music on their iPods, I was happy to be a gues....READ MORERachel Barton Pine
By Dr. Joan Baum
What’s incredible about the 38-year-old award-winning, world-renowned violinist Rachel Barton Pine is how relaxed she is....READ MORE
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Children are the Present for the Future
By Dr. Gertrud Lenzer
In the United States children make up almost one quarter of all citizens with close to 75 million today. They represent the largest social minority who have neither a voice nor can represent themselves in our society....READ MORE
CAREERS
A Chef with a Dream of Shared Table Farm
By Valentina Cordero
Don Pintabona is pursuing his dreams with a project called the Shared Table Farm, an outdoor and indoor farm that will produce crops during every season and will open in Brooklyn next fall. Pintabona served as the first chef at Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Grill....READ MORE
LAW & EDUCATION
 Bullying: Is it About to Disappear?
By Arthur Katz, Esq.
Although not among my fondest memories, when I was growing up, being occasionally bullied was a way of life until high school, and we were required to learn to deal with it — which each of us did in our own way and without school intervention.Since then, the federal government....READ MOREMEDICAL UPDATE
MUSEUMS AS EDUCATORS
 Exclusive Churchill Materials in New York City
An exclusive showing of hundreds of Winston Churchill papers called The Power of Words, is at the Pierpont Morgan Library from June 8 to mid September. Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill archives at Churchill College in Cambridge, England, chose from the 2,000 boxes of materials Churchill preservede....WATCH VIDEO
SPORTS
 Columbia University Alumnus Has Olympic Dreams
By Richard Kagan
Kyle Merber. Remember that name because in four years, he might be representing the United States at the Summer Olympics in 2016.For now, Merber is at home watching the games after coming up a bit short in his first bid at the Olympic track and field trials, held this June in Eugene, Ore....READ MORE
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Two Great Institutions Team to Create New Health Complex: Hunter College & Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: A Mecca for Science Research in NY
CSA Members Explore Goals, Challenges at Executive Leadership Institute
Council of School Supervisors Helps Professional Development
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