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Dressed in a navy blue blazer and a flowered shirt, Dana Bermas gently knocked on the door of Melissa O’Donnell’s second-grade class at Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick on a recent Tuesday …
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By Casey Pinner
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6/19/14
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The halls of Roland A. Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick are adorned with student artwork: bulletin boards full of construction paper projects, crayon drawings and wobbly handwriting. On a recent Friday, children clad in flannel pants and superhero shirts for Pajama Day skipped down the hall in neat lines.
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By Casey Pinner
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6/4/14
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For the second straight year, the Mepham High School varsity co-ed cheerleading squad has captured the New York State Cheer Championship.
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By Anishaa Kumar and Scott Brinton
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3/12/14
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Chatterton Elementary School in Merrick recently held its annual Community Reading Day, at which local leaders read to classes for a half-hour in the morning and answered questions about their work. Among the participants were elected leaders, professionals and educators. Paul Laursen, contributing editor for the Merrick Herald Life, read to Robin Harris’s fourth-grade class. At back were Laursen, Harris, center, and Chatterton Principal Cindy Davidowitz.
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1/31/14
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Chestnuts may not have been roasting, but the sounds of the holiday season could be heard over the fire at an annual caroling event featuring former and current Mepham students.
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By Julie Mansmann
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12/19/13
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“Test scores plummet.” Those were the headlines about the “seismic” drop in scores following the latest state exams. Apocalypse!
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8/28/13
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To the layman, the publication of teacher ratings would seem to make sense. Don’t parents have the right to know the effectiveness of their children’s teachers? This sentiment is frequently expressed by well-meaning people. However, this thinking is extremely flawed, and I am troubled by this “rush to judgment.”
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By Steve Kussin
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3/16/12
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Last year I described former Merokean Jessica Sussman’s plans to travel to Cameroon, where she would use her expertise as a social worker to help in AIDS prevention. She has now returned— and in the two-part series that begins with this column, she details her experiences in Africa.
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By Steve Kussin
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1/20/12
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“It is not hard to figure out that you are being discriminated against when your supervisor calls you a nigger and routinely reminds you that you are a black woman.” So opens the …
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By Lee Landor
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12/12/11
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Part one of five.
We’re about to begin an extended series about a topic that’s often in the news –– charter schools. I must admit that researching the topic became an education for me. I recently ran a series of broadcasts about charters on WCBS Newsradio 880. There was so much I didn’t know. In the next few columns, I will share what I learned.
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By Steve Kussin
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11/14/11
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