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Human civilization has developed side by side with technology — some may say, in competition with it. Technological innovations have diminished the need for workers in jobs requiring . . . more

By Ilana Greenberg | 2/23/23

A safe return to class should be the goal

Anyone who knows me knows that from the start, I have not been a fan of the current administration in Washington, D.C. So I’m more than a little surprised to find myself agreeing with President Trump . . . more

By Timothy Denton | 9/5/20

Our children have to go back to school

I have never been so happy for a school year to come to a close. It seemed like every second of remote learning played out like a vicious game of tug-of-war. more

By Nick Buglione | 7/24/20

Schools: focus on students first, then learning

Last Friday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally offered students and teachers certainty about the rest of the 2019-20 school year when he canceled in-person classes through June to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Thank you, Mr. Cuomo. more

5/7/20

Watson Elementary School students participated in a grant-funded “Sound Body Sound Mind” program in the 2015-16 school year.

Rockville Centre Education Foundation gala to fund new classroom grants

Two months before the Rockville Centre Education Foundation hosts its annual gala to raise money for classroom grants in all seven of the district’s schools, teachers are beginning to think up new programs for next year. more

By Ben Strack | 2/15/18

Maggie Batkin and Charlie Piscatelli, center, were among the dancers representing Covert Elementary School at a ballroom dancing competition in Port Washington on Jan. 24. Behind them to the left, their classmates, Julia Coles and Lamont Briggs, showed off their skills.

Covert Elementary School students earn silver at ballroom dancing competition

A spirited bunch from Rockville Centre’s William S. Covert Elementary School took to the dance floor on Jan. 24 for Dancing Classrooms Long Island’s Winter Colors of the Rainbow Team Match & Festival in Port Washington, thrilling their parents and teachers and earning silver in the process. more

By Ben Strack | 2/1/18

Chris D’Ambrosio, a science teacher at South Side High School, helped student Emma Garrett use one of the district’s zSpace computers to analyze and label parts of the human body’s circulatory, respiratory and digestive systems.

South Side High School on cutting edge of evolving classroom practices

Watching a human heart beat up close is an experience reserved for cardiovascular surgeons, and to hold one in your hand sounds like something out of an Edgar Allan Poe poem. Yet at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, students can virtually grab a beating heart from a screen and pull it toward them, examining it from all angles, as vibrations — simulating blood pumping to vital organs — pulse through a stylus and into their hand.“If you put your face slowly into the heart,” teacher Chris D’Ambrosio said, smiling, “you’ll see the inside.” more

By Ben Strack | 1/5/18

Students in Christine O’Neill’s Spanish class at Mepham High School in North Bellmore used virtual-reality technology to tour Machu Picchu, in Peru, on Dec. 7.

Traveling to Machu Picchu — from desks in a classroom

Part 6 of the “Educating the 21st Century Child” series. Students held the Google Cardboard virtual-reality glasses to their faces on a recent Thursday. “Let’s get ready to … more

By Nadya Nataly | 1/3/18

William S. Covert Elementary School students danced the merengue during the culmination of a 10-week ballroom dance training program.

Dance program at Covert Elementary School morphs students into ‘ladies and gentlemen’

Fourth- and fifth-graders continued a tradition on Nov. 29 that has cemented itself into the culture at William S. Covert Elementary School over the last decade, as they performed an array of classic dances for their parents and teachers. more

By Ben Strack | 12/14/17

Junior Girl Scout Troop 808 raised over $300 to buy 27 recycling bins for Hewitt Elementary School.

Hewitt Girls Scouts help with recycling

Junior Girl Scout Troop 808 recently raised over $300 to buy recycling bins that were put in the classrooms and fields of Hewitt Elementary School. The group of 17 girls recently held a bake sale … more

By Brian Kacharaba | 3/8/17