Education Update

The Road to Hell?

By Howard Gardner, Ph.D. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:03:45 GMT

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

Secretary Solis Urges Hunter Grads to Harness “Ganas” at 199th Commencement

By Steven Frank — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:07:17 GMT

Imagine yourself as U.S. Secretary of Labor during the greatest economic downtown since the Great Depression.....

Barnard College: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton & President Debra Spar

By Joy Resmovits — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:06:07 GMT

At the end of her first year as Barnard College’s President, Debora Spar ushered the class of 2009 through their final moments as students with the help of a guest speaker—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who called for “digital diplomacy."....

Grace Outreach Graduates Speak

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:05:39 GMT

Grace Outreach is a program for single mothers who aged out of receiving a high school diploma.....

Teachers College: Mayor Cory Booker & President Susan Fuhrman

By Joy Resmovits — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:05:04 GMT

Future teachers and education policy makers graduated from Teachers College of Columbia University to strains of organ music under the arched ceiling of Riverside Church in May.....

Pakistani Student Speaks at Teachers College

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:03:49 GMT

Since a Fulbright Scholarship brought me to Teachers College less than two years ago, much has happened in Pakistan....

A Long Road to Graduation

By Susan Randell — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:03:12 GMT

Getting my degree was a long-term goal of mine. Little did I realize how long the term would be....

Honors Awarded at SUNY Downstate Medical Center

By Dr. Pola Rosen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:02:21 GMT

The impressive array of brainpower at a recent reunion of doctors of all ages at SUNY Downstate Medical Center (DMC) was only surpassed by the unwavering service to humanity and the humility demonstrated by so many attendees....

High School Reunions: Music and Art, New York City

By Dr. Pola Rosen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:01:32 GMT

Originally, the “Castle on the Hill”, as its students called Music and Art High School in the 50s and 60s, occupied a lofty perch almost adjacent to The City College of New York, on 137th Street and Convent Avenue....

Strip Searches in Public Schools

By Martha McCarthy, Ph.D. — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:00:51 GMT

The United States Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in Safford Unified School District # 1 v. Redding, involving the strip search of a thirteen-year-old girl in an Arizona school district....

Professor Larry Singer: The Force Behind USC’s Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program (PPP): Career-Changers Welcome!

By Emily Sherwood, Ph.D. — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:00:12 GMT

While many students spend their college years pursuing a life-long ambition to become a doctor, taking the required science and math courses in linear progression and applying to medical school as seniors, it was only after Heather had graduated from the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles with a degree in French that she realized she wanted to be a surgeon...

Kudos to 39 Years As Dean

By Dr. Pola Rosen — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:59:20 GMT

How many people can a teacher influence? To answer that mathematical question, you had to attend the recent retirement dinner honoring Dean Alfred Posamentier, mathematician, author and mentor to scores of students across time and the span of oceans...

TEACHERS COLLEGE PROFILE: Professor Pearl Kane, Klingenstein Center, Independent School Leadership

By Joan Baum, Ph.D. — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:58:34 GMT

Though she holds a number of prestigious titles—Klingenstein Family Chair Professor of Education in the Department of Organization and Leadership at Teachers College Columbia University, Director of the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership, and Advisor for Master’s degree programs focusing on school leadership—not to mention being the recipient last November of honors at the European Council of International Schools, in Nice, and the National Association of Principals of Girls Outstanding Achievement Award, in February, Pearl Rock Kane hardly mentions her own accomplishments and speaks in a soft spoken manner about the significance of leadership for the country’s schools....

Quinn Bradlee: A Different Life

By Steven Frank — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:57:55 GMT

Born into a privileged family, Quinn Bradlee has had anything but an easy life. During childhood, he was told he’d never be able to read a book let alone write one....

THE PET CORNER: Dogs, Dogs, Those Adorable Dogs: Interview with a Dog Trainer and Spa Owner

Interview and Editing by Gillian Granoff and Daniel Lewis — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:55:07 GMT

Naresh Jessani is owner of the New York Dog Spa and Hotel. Andrea Arden has a separate business, Andrea Arden Dog Training, and uses space at Naresh’s business.

Peter Diamandis, M.D.: CEO, The X Prize

By Joan Baum, Ph.D. — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:45:02 GMT

Recently, Dr. Peter Diamandis spoke eloquently at a dinner at the Cosmopolitan Club sponsored by the American Farm School, based in Thessaloniki, Greece... By Joan Baum, Ph.D. The three mantra-like goals that appear on Peter H. Diamandis’ “Unauthorized Top-Secret Website” only hint at the propulsive energy and idiosyncratic imagination that inform this brilliant, extraordinary innovator and entrepreneur: (1) “The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

Jacques d’Amboise, Preeminent Dancer and Founder, National Dance Institute

By Lisa K. Winkler — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:29:06 GMT

“I don’t have to do anything but enjoy,” National Dance Institute (NDI) founder and ballet dancer Jacques d’Amboise says. But d’Amboise has done plenty....

Exclusive Interview with Yoko Ono

By Dr. Pola Rosen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:58:16 GMT

Education Update (EU): In your poignant introduction to the John Lennon Anthology, you mention the great love that you and John shared. In what way do you think your talent in the arts helped him?