The events at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and the exhortations by some elected officials leading up to them got me to thinking about civic responsibility and our nation’s future.
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By Robert Scott
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1/28/21
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As I watch the final days of the election campaign, I keep thinking about the words of writer-philosopher George Santayana, who said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
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10/29/20
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Over a quarter-century ago, under President George H.W. Bush, the U.S. Department of Education published an untitled, 49-page booklet that offered advice to parents about how to help their children in school.
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9/13/18
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Ten years ago, Howard T. Herber Middle School teacher Marguerite Izzo found herself in the office of U.S. Sen. Carolyn McCarthy and began recounting her observations stemming from the No Child Left Behind Act. As she was talking, McCarthy yelled for an aide to grab a notebook and start writing. “I couldn’t believe someone cared,” said Izzo, adding that this was the beginning of legislation to involve teachers in writing federal education policy. “The legislation was introduced two or three times, but never got off the ground,” Izzo said.
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By Rossana Weitekamp
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7/27/17
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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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The Oceanside school board has weighed in on the controversy on the controversy over the common core and assessment systems associated with the new federal program by passing a resolution at its …
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By Howard Schwach
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12/3/13
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Last week, the federal government granted New York a waiver to provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act that will allow it to set new standards for students and not be held to the 2014 deadline of …
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By Alex Costello
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6/6/12
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Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo, the current Democratic state attorney general, recently swung by the Jewel Quinn Senior Center in North Merrick to tout a 2 percent property-tax cap for all municipalities and school districts in New York.
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8/5/10
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