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Almost every one of us has had the experience of watching a child, a grandchild or the children of friends suffer through the anxiety of continuous tests at every level of the educational ladder.
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3/13/14
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On Dec. 3, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, a set of three tests — in literacy, science and math — which is given every three years to 15-year-olds in 65 nations.
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12/12/13
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With the holidays fast approaching, it’s the time of year where many good-hearted people look to do something nice for their community. At North High School, the senior Student Council does more than simply make a donation to a charity — it organizes a way for other students and community members to give back.
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By Brian Croce
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11/20/13
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“I’ve always believed that kids will meet the bar and adults have to set it high,” said Dr. Bill Heidenreich, superintendent of the Valley Stream Central High School District. “When we do that, they rise to that bar.”
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By Brian Croce
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10/16/13
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The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished.
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10/3/13
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Long Island’s high schools have finished honoring the members of the class of 2013, and many of those newly minted graduates are now looking toward college in the fall.
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6/26/13
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By my rough calculations, our children spend some 17,640 hours in school, kindergarten through high school.
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6/6/13
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The dichotomy between inBloom’s website, featuring photos of smiling elementary-age children seated beside young teachers, tablets in hand, and its seven-page Privacy and Security Policy, full of legalese, could not be more stark.
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5/16/13
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Semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search were announced recently, and, as usual, Long Island came up big in the contest.
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1/24/13
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The Valley Stream Central High School District Board of Education is considering changing its controversial parking policy, which prohibits students from leaving campus in their cars during the school day.
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1/24/13
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