Outstanding Teachers of the Month-December 2004 Teachers are the backbone of our educational system. They richly deserve the recognition that Education Update gives them. Congratulations to this month's Outstanding Teachers of the Month in recognition of the vital role they play in our childrens' lives. READ ARTICLE
Making
History:
Honoring Outstanding Teachers in New York City Public Schools
to Become Annual Event
The Department of Education, as the Board of Education is now known, is over
100 years old. During that time, the pendulum has swung from centralization
to decentralization and back, from teaching reading via phonics to the whole
word approach and now back to phonics again, from bilingual education to immersion
and back.
