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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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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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The National Association of Music Merchants Foundation has honored several Nassau County school districts as the Best Communities for Music Education, including Malverne, which has received the distinction five times.
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By Brian Stieglitz and Rossana Weitekamp
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4/20/17
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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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There were other tables full of food, but somehow people couldn’t help lingering around the Malverne Fire Department’s table full of freshly barbecued ribs and chicken. “This is ‘Nonna’s [expletive] Kicking Ribs,’ and over here we have ‘Not Your Grandpa’s Jerk Chicken,’” said Jeff Sattali, a Malverne firefighter who was debriefing the crowd while fellow firefighter Tim Engleke chopped up the meat.
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9/27/16
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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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A plan to transform an underused basketball court on the grounds of Clara H. Carlson Elementary School, in Elmont, by professional soccer team the New York Cosmos has failed to reach its funding …
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By Steve Smirti
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8/3/16
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Gary Johnson? Who is this guy, you ask? He is the most prominent of the alternative candidates who will be joining Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton . . .
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6/9/16
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