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In the remarkable 2014 film “Whiplash,” J.K. Simmons plays Terence Fletcher, a maniacal music professor at an elite East Coast conservatory bent on producing the next truly great jazz musician . . .
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9/21/17
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New York state has some of the nation’s best schools, and some of the worst. Many suburban schools are considered models of learning . . .
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8/31/17
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Since 2012, when New York state adopted the Common Core State Standards, many students with special needs have received certificates rather than diplomas when they completed high school.
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8/3/17
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Nearly 400 Freeport residents, students and faculty members gathered at the Coral House in Baldwin for a night of music, dancing, and celebration for the Freeport Education Foundation’s third …
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By Julie Loney
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6/8/17
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New York State Education Department officials will have to forgive the public if people don’t appear eager to embrace Next Generation Learning Standards. We were burned by Common Core.
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6/1/17
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“A mind is a terrible thing to waste,” The Reverend Regina V, Johnson, Executive Director of the Hi-Hello Child Care Center said. It is a bright fall morning and the voices of happy …
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By Laura Schofer
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12/15/16
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Nearly half a million students, ages 12 to 18, fell victim to violence at schools across the U.S. in 2014, the last year for which statistics are available, according to . . .
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12/2/16
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It is probably among the nation’s most thankless jobs –– Board of Education trustee. School board members spend untold hours . . .
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10/27/16
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Here we go again: The New York State Education Department is revising its grades-three-to-eight English and math standards. We can only say, with fingers crossed, that we hope the state will get it right this time.
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10/13/16
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For every large-scale social movement, there is a “tipping point, that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.” So wrote New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell in . . .
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9/15/16
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