FEBRUARY 2008
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
On Location in Israel
School Superintendents Delegation Travels To Israel
By Charlotte K. Frank, Ph.D.
As chair of the executive committee of the America-Israel Friendship League, I recently led a delegation to Israel, which included the executive director, Dan Domenech, and superintendents of schools in Michigan, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina, who are members of the American Association of School Administrators....READ MORE
On Location in Israel
Planting the Seeds for a Better World
By Adam Wertheimer Sugerman
Upon landing at Ben Gurion Airport in the Tel Aviv suburbs, I was impressed by Israel’s efficient use of land....READ MORE
On Location in Israel
Penn Superintendent Shares Views
By Amy F. Sichel, Ph.D.
No Child Left Behind’s requirement to review disaggregated data forced us to, in the words of Jim Collins in “Good to Great,” “confront the brutal facts.”...READ MORE
On Location in Israel
Mich. Superintendent Shares Views
By Rodney P. Green, Ph.D.
Gail and I were privileged to be a part of the Superintendent Delegation to Israel sponsored by the America-Israel Friendship League....READ MORE
On Location in Israel
Impressions of Denasia Gilley, Lehman HS Student Ambassador
Denasia Gilley from Lehman High School in the Bronx said that she will always carry the knowledge she has acquired from her journeys to Washington and to Israel, and she appreciates the cohesiveness in her traveling group, which included students from Israel, New York, Tucson, Virginia Beach, and Bartlesville, Okla....READ MORE
On Location in Israel
Time To Know, An Israeli Company Merges Technology & Teaching
By Gillian Granoff
When I sat down to discuss Time To Know, a groundbreaking education organization that uses technology as a tool to help teachers teach, I’ll admit I was skeptical....READ MORE
On Location in Qatar
Exclusive From Qatar: Education Summit—Truly a View from the Top
By Vicki Cobb
World leaders in education and more than one hundred journalists descended on the oil-and-gas-rich emirate capital city of Doha, Qatar, recently, for the second World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE).....READ MORE
On Location in Qatar
CISCO Executive Bill Fowler Speaks
I think the Middle East countries — and of course it’s not fair to talk about them as a bloc because each one has its individual needs, wants, idiosyncrasies — but what they’re doing as a group is creating a level of excitement....READ MORE
FEBRUARY 2008
MODERN LANGUAGES
Concordia Language Villages 2008
Concordia Language Villages, a non-profit organization sponsored by Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., now offers 15 languages each summer to nearly 6000 youth between the ages of 7 and 18....MORE
NOVEMBER 2005
Illuminating
Parallels from Kyoto, Japan
By Ted Fish, Ed.D.
On a typical morning at the Kin Kaku elementary school in Kyoto, Japan, students
line up in the stone courtyard outside while a teacher makes announcements for
the day. READ MORE
OCTOBER 2005
After
the Flood: Life in Louisiana
“Public
Health Service officers from many different parts of
the United States (New York, California, Oregon, Alaska,
Maryland) came together and formed a cohesive unit that
served superbly with state and local authorities to provide
medical and social services for hurricane evacuees.”
— Dr. Herman Rosen (October 2005)
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SEPTEMBER 2005
International
Youth Day at The United Nations
By Liza Young
With a boundless supply of ideas from adults regarding the education and future
of youth, it’s not often that voices of young people are heard in a public,
powerful forum. The gala opening of the photographic exhibit at International
Youth Day at the UN, “Chasing the Dream,” focused on eight students
from around the world who shared their innermost feelings via photographs and
writings. READ MORE
Photojournalist
Diego Goldberg Chases the Dream
By Pola Rosen Ed.D.
Diego Goldberg, an Argentinian, is a renowned photojournalist, one of the creators
of the UN photo exhibit, entitled “Chasing the Dream,” which includes
141 photos, chronicling the struggles and the hopes of eight youngsters from
Brazil, Cambodia, India, Jamaica, Uganda, Morocco and other nations. READ
MORE
Guests
at the Event
Pictures
of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Roberta Flack , & More. VIEW
CCNY,
NASA & DoD Outreach Programs Train Young Scientists
from Middle School to College
By Dr. Robert R. Alfano
City College is the site of several major research centers, institutes and
a consortium that have placed CCNY at the forefront of photonics and laser
technologies research and development. Two of these are the NASA Center for
Optical Sensing and Imaging (NASA-COSI); and the DoD Center for Nanoscale Photonics
(DoD-CNP). READ
MORE
Languages
Reflections on Language
By Alfred Posamentier, Ph.D.
When I opened a package from Istanbul, I was flattered to learn that my two
most recent mathematics books were translated into Turkish. While I was clearly
familiar with the contents, I could not read a single word. READ
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Teaching
American Sign Language To Hearing Children
Developed for hearing children ages 3-11, SIGN-A-LOT is a DVD series where
American Sign Language vocabulary is woven into the storyline through an exciting,
entertaining world of animated characters, magical lands and playful child
performers. READ
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JULY 2005
Making History Honoring Outstanding
Teachers
in New York City
Recommended by principals, superintend ents
and colleagues, 46 teachers appeared throughout the year in the pages of the
award-winning monthly culminating in a ceremony at the Cornell Club on June 28th,
the last day of school. READ
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JUNE 2005
Zydeco
Music & Jamming with Mama
By Herman Rosen
Zydeco, a foot-stompin’, hand-clappin’ music is an integral part
of the culture of Lafayette, Louisiana. It is considered black, Creole music,
with French lyrics and comes from a song called “Les haricots sont pas
sale” or “The snap beans aren’t salty.” READ
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Education
Behind Bars:
Part II of a Series |
Rikers
High: A Filmmaker’s View of Prison Education
By Gillian Granoff
“Making documentaries puts me in the enviable position of being able to
explore the world and be in places where you wouldn’t ordinarily be; that’s
the gift they give to you.”
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Puppies
Behind Bars
By Mitchell Levine
In 1997, Gloria Gilbert Stoga began New York’s first such inmate
program in Bedford Hills Prison, Puppies Behind Bars (PBB), bringing
in dogs to bond and be trained by long-term prisoners in explosive detection
and support for the blind. READ
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Integrating
Ex-Inmates Into Society
By Liza Young
Even with the discontinuation of Pell Grants in correctional facilities
for adults, there are those whose belief in the value of higher education
and the power of the individual to continually improve goes beyond funding
crises. READ
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Interview
with Dr. Michelle Fine
By Nazneen Malik
“College in prison is a powerful intervention and relatively cost effective,” says
Dr. Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Urban Education, and
Women’s Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
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Island
Academy: HS Students Face the Challenges of School
in Jail
By Liza Young
All major subject areas are taught at the Island Academy, with teachers
certified in each specific area. There are additionally arts programs
as well as vocational educational programs... READ
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MAY 2005
Interview
With Senator Edward Kennedy:
National Center for Learning Disabilities Awardee
By Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
The most important pending legislation in this Congress is the Family Opportunity
Act. For more than five years, Senator Grassley and I have been committed to
this legislation to give parents of disabled children the opportunity to purchase
Medicaid coverage for their children. READ
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary
of the Salk Vaccine With Jonathan Salk
By Joan Baum, Ph.D
The extraordinary success of the Salk Vaccine, Jonathan Salk points out, and
the campaign launched by the March of Dimes, “dramatically” changed
perceptions of science and medicine. READ
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The
Ethics Guy: Doing Well By Doing Good
By Jacob M. Appel,
J.D.
Conventional wisdom argues that ethical decision-making is exceedingly difficult—but
according to Bruce Weinstein, Ph.D, better known as “The Ethics Guy,” it
is actually quite easy. READ
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Former Prime Minister
John Major of the United Kingdom at Oxonian Society
By Pola Rosen, Ed.D.
In a serious vein the Minister advised that we must combine the war on terror
with the war on poverty. READ
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APRIL 2005
MODERN LANGUAGES
Martha Abbott: Doyenne
of Global Languages
By Joan Baum, Ph.D.
Language study now involves content areas, so that youngsters learning
about the butterfly, for example, get instruction in English
that is then reinforced in another language. One can only
hope that 2005 will be, as they say in Latin, an annus
mirabilis. READ
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