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Rabbi Baruch Noy, the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway’s STEM curriculum coordinator, showed Peter Drukker, center, and Noah Popack how to use the state-of-the-art laser cutter in the middle school’s laboratory.
Where teachers, students meet technology
Students still read textbooks and jot notes in paper binders today, but technology reigns supreme in most all Long Island schools and in most all grades, from kindergarten through high school. How teachers apply that technology and how students learn to use the high-tech devices at their disposal will, no doubt, have a profound effect on education — and the work world of the future. more
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State must get teaching standards right this time
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 . . . more
Time to get an education
New York state has some of the nation’s best schools, and some of the worst. Many suburban schools are considered models of learning . . . more
State should rethink its local-diploma policy
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. more
Oceanside special education Director Debra Kienke, right, with school Superintendent Dr. Phyllis Harrington. The New York Council of Administrators of Special Education named Kienke Special Education Administrator of the Year for 2017.
Oceanside special education director named Administrator of the Year
This July, the New York Council of Administrators of Special Education, or NYCASE, has named Debra Kienke, the Oceanside School District’s director of special education, as 2017’s Special … more
Roger Tilles of the Long Island Board of Regents spoke to parents at a Rockville Centre High School event in February about diploma options for special needs students.
State officials mull opening up diploma options for special needs students
After being pressured by a group of about 25 Long Island parents, state education officials are signaling their willingness to expand the options available to students who are not able to earn a … more
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Here we go again: a new set of learning standards
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. more
Oceanside residents voted to approve the school district and library's budgets on Tuesday.
Oceanside school, library budgets pass
The Oceanside School District’s $150 million 2017-18 budget easily passed on Tuesday by a vote of 1,202 to 369. Next year’s spending plan — about $2.9 million, or 1.97 percent, larger than the current one — took advantage of its allowable tax levy increase of 2.15 percent. more
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Members of the Oceanside Board of Education in the School No. 6 auditorium.
Oceanside Board of Education finalizes 2017-18 school budget
The Oceanside School District announced its plan to increase its tax levy — the amount of its budget paid for with property taxes — by 2.15 percent from last year, or $2.5 million, at the Board … more
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State must revamp school violence reporting
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 . . . more
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